Michele Karloff, LCSW

Michele Karloff is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in New York. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction challenges, grief, self-esteem concerns, parenting strain, and career questions. Michele focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more in control.

She brings ten years of clinical experience to her work and draws on time spent in hospital settings. That background offered frequent exposure to many kinds of life crises and transitions. Michele uses that experience to stay calm and clear when things feel overwhelming.

Michele practices Client-Centered Therapy, which means she centers each session on the person’s own goals and pace. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that can ease symptoms.

Sessions are conversational and goal-directed. Michele listens, asks questions, and suggests exercises people can try between meetings. She also offers group-style perspectives when relevant, based on prior hospital work with groups.

Her additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, body image, communication problems, control issues, disaster coping, divorce and separation, first responder issues, forgiveness, gender dysphoria, guilt and shame, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and immigration issues. Michele works in English and accepts international clients. If you want to move forward, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started.

Approaches That Guide Online Work

Michele uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the person's lead, listening closely, and shaping sessions around the individual's goals and pace. It helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to talk through worries.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and some patterns that feed addiction or low self-esteem.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Michele will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest a mix of methods. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so they fit what the person wants to work on and how they prefer to work.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and keeping momentum between appointments. Because the biography does not specify which session formats are offered, confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to maintain continuity during life changes, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules are tight.