About Karen
Karen Buroff is a clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She uses a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps people can use to feel better. Karen aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She practices from a trauma-informed perspective and adapts care to individual needs. In sessions she listens first, then helps set clear goals. She draws on client-centered methods to keep conversations focused on what matters to the person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are offered to build calm and improve sleep and attention. Karen has supported people facing depression, anxiety, panic, and post-traumatic stress.
She has experience helping those dealing with grief, addiction, relationship difficulties, and life transitions. Her background includes work with military members and veterans as well as people who have experienced physical or emotional trauma. She also helps with challenges such as ADHD, bipolar concerns, eating and intimacy-related issues, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
Communication problems, guilt and shame, and loneliness are other areas she addresses. Sessions are tailored to the individual’s pace and priorities. Karen holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW, and carries state licenses in California and Connecticut.
She offers video calls, phone work, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet different scheduling needs. Getting started involves a short questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Karen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify patterns of thought and behavior that cause distress and then practice concrete alternatives. CBT can help with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and sleep problems by breaking big problems into small steps.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions focused on the person’s priorities and strengths. This approach emphasizes listening, collaboration, and tailoring the conversation so goals feel relevant and manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Karen will review your concerns, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process helps shape goals and the pace of progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face-to-face and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a screen-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and between-session support easier to fit into a busy day. These options provide flexibility to match therapy to your schedule and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, California
- Languages
- English