About Michele
Michele Karloff is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. Michele also supports individuals facing parenting and career challenges and can assist with a range of related life concerns.
She uses straightforward talk and practical steps in sessions. Michele listens closely and helps people name what feels off. She works to break problems into manageable pieces and builds simple tools clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Michele brings ten years of experience as an LCSW to her work. Her background includes hospital-based counseling and both individual and group work. That experience shaped her ability to respond to many different life situations and transitions.
Her practice pays attention to specific life circumstances like adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric matters, body image, immigration concerns, and hospice or end-of-life counseling. Michele also addresses communication problems, control issues, coping after natural or human-caused disasters, and first responder stresses. Sessions aim to be collaborative and clear.
Michele blends listening with practical strategies drawn from client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques. She helps people set goals, try new behaviors, and notice what changes over time.
How Michele’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. Michele provides space for clients to tell their story and helps them set goals that fit their life. This approach is useful for people coping with grief, self-esteem struggles, and complex life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Michele uses CBT techniques to help people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety, depression, or addictive patterns. CBT is often practical and action oriented, which fits well with short online sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Michele will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try first. Adjustments happen along the way until the plan feels useful and realistic.
Online therapy offers more flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let conversations feel closer to an in-person visit, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options make it easier to keep consistent work on stress, anxiety, and other concerns without long commutes or scheduling hurdles.
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What this therapist works with
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- 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
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