About Karishma
Karishma Samaroo is a New York licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She writes plainly and works with adults who want clearer coping tools and steadier motivation. Her approach aims to make day-to-day life feel more manageable for people in distress.
She brings nine years of clinical experience focused on adults with addiction, mental health concerns, and co-occurring disorders. Karishma commonly addresses trauma and abuse, attachment and abandonment issues, and difficulties that come from family of origin problems.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing chronic illness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and relationship communication problems. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to look at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find reasons to change and build momentum.
Psychodynamic ideas are used to notice patterns from the past that affect current relationships and emotions. Her style is straightforward and practical. People can expect to talk through specific situations, practice new coping skills, and problem-solve steps to reduce distress.
She often pairs insight about roots of a problem with hands-on strategies to make change. Karishma offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats to fit different needs. She works in English and practices in New York as a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC).
How Karishma’s Approaches Work Online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing different responses. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday problems where changing thinking can ease symptoms.Motivational Interviewing centers on helping a person find their own reasons for change and build confidence to act on them. It can be useful when motivation feels low or when someone wants to reduce substance use or start new habits.
Psychodynamic ideas look at recurring patterns that come from past relationships and experiences and how they show up now. Noticing these patterns can help people understand why they react certain ways and open options for new behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust over time based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and people who prefer writing over speaking. These formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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