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Karen Buroff

Karen Buroff, LCSW

Therapist in California

Trauma-informed LCSW focused on practical skills

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  • Warm interactive style
  • Strengths based
  • 15 years experience

About Karen

Karen Buroff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience supporting people through hard times. She brings a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps that help clients feel steadier. Karen centers respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.

She uses client-centered work to build on each persons strengths and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her practice for tackling unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help with stress, anxiety, and emotional regulation.

Karen has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and chronic mental health challenges. She also has extensive experience with military members and veterans, and with people who have experienced physical or emotional trauma. Other areas she helps with include relationship strain, grief, addiction, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and life transitions.

Her approach is trauma-informed and tailored to each person. Sessions aim to identify manageable goals, try practical coping tools, and adjust the plan based on what helps. She emphasizes strengths and collaboration so clients feel heard and involved in decisions.

If someone is ready to try therapy, Karen supports them through each step from identifying goals to practicing new skills between sessions. Her style is focused on real-world change and on building resilience over time.

This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.

How client-centered and CBT approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's lead to build trust and clarify goals. It helps when someone needs time to feel understood and to identify what matters most to them.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for depression, anxiety, panic, and problems with sleep or daily routines because it includes exercises and clear strategies to practice between sessions.

Mindfulness-based techniques teach simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and emotional reactivity. These tools are helpful for anxiety, stress, and learning to notice patterns without judgment.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan as progress is made.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make it simpler to practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals use these approaches to offer focused therapy that fits everyday schedules.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Karen commonly address?

She works with depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and related issues such as grief, addiction, sleep and eating problems.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

The style is warm and interactive, client-centered, and trauma-informed, with a focus on practical coping skills and collaboration.

What is her professional background?

She has 15 years of experience as a social worker and clinician supporting people with chronic mental illness, PTSD, and life changes.

What credentials and region are listed?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California with prior licensure in Connecticut noted.

Which languages and international options are available?

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.

What session formats are offered?

The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.

How are fees and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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