About Karen
Karen Buroff is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression. She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on each person's strengths and goals. Karen offers practical tools and steady support to people facing big life changes and ongoing challenges.
Her work is informed by trauma-focused care and cognitive behavioral techniques that help people understand thoughts and behaviors. She combines mindfulness practices and solution-focused strategies to build coping skills and short-term relief.
How Karen works
Sessions are collaborative and shaped around what a person needs right now. Karen has experience supporting people who have faced physical trauma or emotional abuse, and she has worked extensively with military members and veterans. She also addresses concerns such as addiction, grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, autism and Asperger syndrome, dissociation, and post-traumatic stress. Her approach is warm and interactive. She listens with respect and adapts conversations to a person's pace and comfort.
Practical exercises, thought work, and mindfulness are used as needed to build resilience and improve day-to-day functioning. People can expect straightforward guidance and a plan that targets what matters most to them. Karen helps people set clear, achievable steps and checks progress along the way.
Her goal is to support clients as they move toward a more manageable, meaningful life.
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What Karen works with
The areas below are the ones Karen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach and online care that adapt to your needs
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist listens, reflects, and follows the client's lead to build trust and clarify goals. This approach is useful when someone wants a respectful space to talk things through and set their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It provides practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, or panic. CBT often includes homework that can be done between sessions to reinforce progress.
Trauma-focused work pays attention to how past trauma affects daily life now. It uses structured steps to reduce distress and improve coping for issues like PTSD, dissociation, or responses to abuse. Such work is done carefully and in partnership with the person seeking help.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss options and work collaboratively to pick methods that match a client's goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send thoughts between sessions or get quick support without scheduling a call. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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