Michele Karloff , LCSW

Michele Karloff is a New York LCSW with 10 years of clinical experience helping individuals and families navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, self-esteem concerns, depression, parenting challenges, and career transitions. Her background includes extensive hospital-based work, which exposed her to a broad range of situations and populations and informed her approach to both individual and group counseling. She provides support in a manner that is empathetic and attentive to each person’s unique needs, helping clients explore their concerns and develop practical strategies for change.

Michele draws on client-centered principles to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space and integrates practical techniques to address thoughts and behaviors that maintain distress. She is experienced addressing issues related to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, body image, communication and control problems, disaster coping, divorce and separation, first responder challenges, forgiveness, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, hospice and end-of-life needs, and immigration issues. LCSW stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a professional credential that reflects training and licensure to provide clinical social work services in New York.

Taking the first step toward greater well-being requires courage, and Michele aims to support clients through that process with warmth, practical guidance, and a focus on goals that matter to each person.

Approaches and Online Care with Michele Karloff

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, empathetic space where the client’s perspective guides the work. This approach helps people who are coping with grief, relationship concerns, self-esteem issues, and life transitions by emphasizing understanding, validation, and collaboration.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and learning practical skills to shift behavior and emotional responses. CBT can be especially helpful for anxiety, depression, stress management, and difficulties with coping or cravings.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Michele works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She tailors the balance of supportive exploration and skills-based work so therapy feels useful and manageable.

Online therapy offers flexibility to meet from home or on the go, with options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity through life changes, and connect with licensed professionals from different locations, including international clients.