Karen Graber, LMFT

Karen Graber is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California, holding license number CA LMFT 91262. She earned a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in May 2010 from California State University, Northridge, and completed her undergraduate studies in Special Education and Psychology at New York University.

Karen has worked across several clinics in the Los Angeles area, including Beit T'shuvah, an inpatient and outpatient addiction clinic, The Maple Counseling Center where she provided care to adolescents at Beverly Hills High School and Moreno High School and their families, and Jewish Family Service. Those roles contributed to a broad clinical background supporting individuals and families through a range of challenges.

Her practice integrates education, clinical training, and hands-on experience to help clients find balance and move toward meaningful change. She emphasizes a client-centered, strengths-based stance that highlights existing resources and capacities as the foundation for growth. Therapy is tailored to each person’s circumstances so clients can develop healthy coping strategies and cultivate greater self-compassion and fulfillment in daily life.

Karen draws on multiple therapeutic approaches, including client-centered work, psychodynamic techniques to explore recurring patterns rooted in past experiences, and solution-focused strategies to identify practical steps forward. She incorporates mindfulness practices and uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) when appropriate for anxiety, phobia, and trauma-related concerns, and she is in the process of receiving EMDR certification.