Karen Graber

Karen Graber is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, and eating and food-related issues. She offers calm, practical guidance to people who feel overwhelmed by life changes, relationships, or addictive behaviors. Her approach aims to restore day-to-day balance and build skills that make life more manageable.

Karen draws on over a decade of clinical work across community clinics and schools in Los Angeles. She blends client-centered attention with psychodynamic insight to look at both current problems and patterns that may come from the past. Sessions focus on identifying strengths, developing healthier coping strategies, and slowing down unhelpful cycles.

People meet her for help with mood concerns like depression and anxiety, for parenting stress and fatherhood issues, and for struggles around body image, eating, and substance use. She also offers coaching-style work for career decisions and life transitions when that is helpful.

Her style is collaborative and practical. She adapts methods to each person, using brief solution-focused steps when needed and deeper exploration when that fits. Mindfulness techniques are used to teach simple ways to reduce reactivity and improve daily routines.

Karen earned a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Northridge, and she holds a California LMFT license. She uses these experiences to tailor therapy to individual needs and to help people regain self-compassion and forward momentum.

How her approaches guide online therapy choices

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs. It helps people feel heard, identify strengths, and make practical changes that fit their daily lives.

Psychodynamic work examines patterns that may come from past relationships and experiences. This approach can help when recurrent problems, like relationship difficulties or persistent anxiety, keep showing up.

Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, doable steps. It’s useful for people who want concrete changes quickly, such as improving sleep routines, reducing urges, or managing stressful life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the collaboration. The therapist will help figure out which combination of methods best fits a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Goals and techniques are regularly revisited so the plan stays useful.

Confirm which session formats the therapist currently offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, cut down commute time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people try different pacing and tools right away, such as brief solution-focused visits or longer sessions for deeper psychodynamic exploration.