Karen Camese , LMFT

Karen Camese is a licensed therapist in California with 20 years of clinical experience working with individuals and families through complex life changes and healing processes. As an LMFT, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, she draws on extensive training to address trauma, addiction, family dynamics, grief, and relationship and intimacy-related issues while supporting personal growth and resilience.

Her practice centers on compassionate, culturally aware care for people facing midlife transitions, caregiver stress, substance use concerns, domestic violence recovery, and intergenerational family patterns. Karen helps clients build self-love, clarify life purpose, and strengthen communication and coping strategies that support healthier relationships and daily functioning.

Clients may seek her help for challenges such as parenting strains, career uncertainty, sleep difficulties, compassion fatigue, and the emotional impacts of aging or hospice and end-of-life concerns. She offers focused work on codependency, isolation, post-traumatic stress, and seasonal mood shifts alongside support for women navigating identity and life stage transitions.

Using attachment-based, client-centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and emotionally focused approaches, Karen integrates practical skills with empathic exploration so clients can reconnect with their strengths, deepen self-understanding, and move forward with greater clarity.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting with others. It helps clients explore patterns in attachment and develop more secure bonds, which can be useful for relationship difficulties, intimacy-related concerns, and healing from relational trauma.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client's own capacity for growth. In this approach the therapist offers a supportive presence that helps people clarify values, build self-esteem, and make choices aligned with their life goals.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) combines practical skills with focused reflection to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT is often applied to issues like anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and Karen Camese works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they consider strengths, challenges, and practical factors to shape a tailored plan that evolves over time.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while maintaining continuity of support from licensed professionals and therapists regardless of location within the state.