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Karen Buroff

Karen Buroff, LCSW

Therapist in California

Compassionate LCSW focused on practical change

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15 years of experience listed

LCSW professional credentials

English languages

  • Client-centered care
  • Trauma-informed
  • Mindfulness and CBT

About Karen

Karen Buroff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of practice. She offers a warm, interactive approach and focuses on helping people regain balance during stressful or painful life moments. Karen aims to listen carefully and tailor sessions to each person’s needs.

She works with many concerns that affect self worth and daily functioning, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and self esteem. She also supports people facing addiction, relationship strain, grief, career struggles, sleep and eating issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Military service and trauma from physical or emotional harm are included among her experience.

Karen uses client-centered methods to keep the work practical and grounded. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new coping skills. Mindfulness practices are used to increase present-moment awareness and ease stress.

Her style is trauma-informed and strengths-based, focused on respectful, sensitive collaboration. Sessions are shaped around the client's goals, and plans are adjusted as progress is made. The therapist emphasizes small, manageable steps toward clearer thinking and healthier routines.

If someone is ready to take action on their concerns, Karen offers support and coaching aimed at lasting change. She encourages people to reach out and complete the initial matching process to begin scheduling sessions.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Karen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy alongside a client-centered approach. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical skills to change them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and self esteem concerns. Mindfulness Therapy focuses on present-moment awareness and gentle attention to bodily and emotional states, which can reduce stress and improve sleep and emotional regulation.

Her client-centered work puts the person's goals first and shapes sessions around what matters most to them. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process: the therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust strategies as progress is made. The plan is refined together rather than imposed.

Because the biography does not specify session formats, confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, let people choose a shorter check-in when needed, and avoid travel time. It also supports using written homework, guided mindfulness exercises, or skill-building between sessions to reinforce changes in everyday life.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepressionCoaching

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoping with life changesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

Autism and Asperger SyndromeCo-morbidityCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDissociationGuilt and shameIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPost-traumatic stressSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Mindfulness TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

15+ years

Credentials

Connecticut, California

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and self esteem issues, along with relationship, addiction, parenting, career, and sleep or eating concerns.

How would you describe her therapy style?

The style is warm, interactive, and client-centered, with a trauma-informed outlook and a strengths-based focus on practical steps.

What experience does she bring to therapy?

She has 15 years of clinical and social work experience, including extensive work with military members and people who have experienced physical or emotional trauma.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California and practices from that state.

Can sessions be held in languages other than English?

Sessions are offered in English.

Are international clients accepted?

Yes, she accepts international clients; please confirm any scheduling details when you begin.

How does billing and cost work?

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

What steps are needed to begin working together?

Use the continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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