About Michele
Michele Karloff is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, career concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Michele works with individuals who are navigating major life changes and painful losses.
Michele uses a straightforward, person-centered style in sessions. She aims to listen first and understand what each person needs. From there she offers practical skills to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Her approach includes Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. Over ten years of practice have included hospital-based work and counseling in both individual and group formats.
That background informs her ability to work with a wide range of concerns, including adoption and foster care issues, aging and hospice matters, immigration and HIV/AIDS related stress, and responses to disasters. In sessions she pays attention to communication patterns, control issues, body image, and trauma-related reactions such as guilt, shame, or hoarding behaviors.
Michele supports people working through divorce or separation and those facing first responder stress. People can expect a calm, empathetic presence and practical tools to try between meetings. Michele combines listening with concrete strategies so clients can move toward clearer choices and workable coping skills.
How Michele Uses Client-Centered and CBT Online
Michele blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to offer practical online support. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals, values, and strengths while the therapist listens without judging. This approach helps people clarify what matters most and make decisions that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches concrete skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new responses. CBT techniques can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and help with coping during major life changes like grief or separation. Finding the right approach is a team effort. Michele works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs and preferences. She will suggest techniques, check how they feel, and adjust the plan as goals change. Online formats offer practical advantages for many people. Video calls let the conversation feel more like face-to-face work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief, flexible contact between meetings and can fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep continuity and try strategies in real time, wherever a person happens to be.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English