About Karen
Karen Graber is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people handle stress, anxiety, ADHD concerns, and life transitions. She works with individuals on grief, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and addictive behaviors. Her manner is calm and focused, aiming to help clients find clearer day-to-day coping skills and more self-compassion.
Graber draws on eleven years of clinical experience in California. She blends a client-centered, strengths-based outlook with psychodynamic ideas.
Background and approach
That means she pays attention to what is working now while also noticing past patterns that keep showing up. Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation and goals. She focuses on practical strategies clients can use between sessions, such as coping tools and ways to manage impulsivity, sleep, or low mood.
The aim is steady changes that fit real life. Her background includes work in addiction clinics and school-based counseling. That experience shaped her approach to family problems, fatherhood issues, and co-occurring concerns like mood disorders and substance use.
Her training includes a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Northridge and a bachelor’s degree from New York University. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances immediate problem-solving with attention to deeper patterns. Graber emphasizes building strengths, improving self-esteem, and finding practical, sustainable steps toward better day-to-day functioning.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely to a person’s experience and following their lead. Online sessions using this approach prioritize the client’s goals and pace, which can help with self-esteem, stress, and everyday coping.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring patterns that come from past relationships or experiences. In online work this can help people notice habits that affect current relationships, mood, or impulsivity and begin changing them over time.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes practical, short-term steps that move a person toward clear goals. It is useful for tackling specific issues like sleep, career decisions, parenting challenges, or managing ADHD-related day-to-day problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means sessions can shift over time from problem-solving to deeper exploration as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can fit into a break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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