Karen Camese, LMFT
Therapist in California
Karen Camese is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience.
- Licensed inCalifornia
- License99165
- NPI 1932370434
- Experience20+ years
- LanguagesEnglish
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About Karen
Karen Camese is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing addiction, trauma, grief, and major life changes. Her work is practical and steady, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable.
Karen focuses on relationship struggles, intimacy issues, sleep problems, and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, aging concerns, and the strain of career transitions. Sessions emphasize clear steps people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered methods to build trust and safety in the therapy process. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused therapy when helpful. Karen adapts methods to the needs of each person she meets.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations that name patterns and look for small, doable changes. She pays attention to family-of-origin issues, codependency, and the effects of long-term stress and compassion fatigue. Grief, hospice and end-of-life concerns are also part of her experience.
Karen practices in California as a CA LMFT, licensed marriage and family therapist. Sessions are offered in English and available in multiple online formats. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session.
Credentials
- LMFT (California)
- License 99165 · expires December 2026
- NPI
- 1932370434 · national provider identifier
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Karen lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Approaches Karen names
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Attachment-informed and Skill-Based Work Online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current stress and trust. It helps people notice how they relate to others and learn new ways of connecting. Client-centered therapy emphasizes the person's own goals and experience, with the therapist offering empathy and nonjudgmental listening to help people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete strategies for changing unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions often blend approaches so the work feels practical and relevant to day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy schedules. Video is good for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps processing. These options give flexibility for different rhythms and needs while keeping therapy consistent.
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Frequently asked
What issues does she help with?
She works with people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is direct and supportive, combining attachment-based and client-centered approaches with practical skill-building.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns including caregiving stress, codependency, and post-traumatic stress.
What are her credentials and where does she practice?
She is a CA LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet.
How does billing and cost work?
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 her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session based on the therapist's availability.
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