Michele Karloff, LCSW
Licensed in New York · 10 years in practice
Michele Karloff is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and parenting or career challenges.
License and registration
- LCSW, New York
- 072248 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1790419786 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
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About Michele
Michele Karloff is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and parenting or career challenges. She practices in New York and offers sessions in English. Michele aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and straightforward so people can move at a steady, comfortable pace.
She uses simple, direct conversation to identify what matters most to each person. Michele draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and build understanding.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes. Her approach is grounded in real-world experience from work in hospital settings and community care. That background informs how she supports people through medical, life transition, and end-of-life issues.
Michele is familiar with adoption and foster care concerns, immigration-related stress, and challenges faced by first responders. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple tools. Michele helps people break problems into smaller steps, practice different responses, and track progress over time.
She also addresses body image, control struggles, communication problems, guilt and shame, and issues related to HIV/AIDS and aging. People can work with Michele through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Her ten years of experience as an LCSW inform a compassionate, practical style aimed at helping clients regain steadiness and clearer direction.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Michele lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Michele names
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Online support
How Michele’s Approaches Work Online
Michele uses Client-Centered Therapy to start by listening closely and following each person's goals. This approach focuses on the person's own priorities and helps them feel heard before making changes. It is useful when someone needs space to talk through feelings and decisions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. CBT offers straightforward exercises and experiments to try different ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress-related habits.
Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Michele will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods as needed. This is a collaborative process that aims to match techniques to what actually helps the person move forward.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into daily life. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a deeper conversation is needed, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in with less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options add flexibility for different schedules, quieter surroundings, or shorter contacts while keeping the focus on practical steps and progress.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Michele commonly address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, self-esteem and parenting or career struggles, plus related areas such as body image and coping after disaster.
How would you describe Michele’s therapy style?
Her style blends Client-Centered Therapy to listen and follow the client's priorities with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to try practical changes in thoughts and behaviors.
What is her background and experience?
She has ten years of experience as a social worker with work that includes hospital-based and community settings, informing her approach to medical and life-transition concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She holds an LCSW credential and is based in New York.
Which languages are supported and can international clients connect?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Michele?
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