Karen Klementowski
Psychologist, PsyD
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $200
Payment Methods
American Express, Cash, Check, Mastercard, VisaInsurance
- Highmark BCBS of Western New York
- Independent Health
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of New York / 015942 Karen Klementowski
- Attended Antioch University New England, PsyD, Graduated 2000
Education and Years In Practice
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Sexual Abuse
- Coping Skills
Expertise
- Anxiety
- Bisexual
- Depression
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Transitions
- Mood Disorders
- Parenting
- Peer Relationships
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Sleep or Insomnia
- Stress
- Veterans
- Women's Issues
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Integrative
- Positive Psychology
Groups
Religious Trauma Survivors
***NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19*** Trauma survivors frequently struggle with sharing their traumatic experiences for many reasons. Religious trauma survivors can experience many symptoms including isolation, fear that no one will believe them, shame, and struggling with their spirituality. This group provides a place where religious trauma survivors can feel less alone. Clients will learn about the symptoms of PTSD and how they impact their functioning and relationships. We discuss using and developing personal social, emotional and thinking intelligence skills, along with acceptance, effort, optimism, and understanding to help survivors process and integrate their trauma into their current life focusing on realizing resilience.
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Location
Buffalo, NY 14209
Parenting with PTSD
***NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19*** Parenting with PTSD is a group for people with PTSD who feel that their symptoms negatively impact their parenting. The approach is a combination of psychoeducational, psychotherapeutic, and skill building activities. Clients will learn about the symptoms of PTSD and how they impact their relationships with others, especially their children and co-parents. We also discuss children's developmental stages and how parent symptoms can interact with child development. We work on using and developing personal social, emotional and thinking intelligence skills, along with acceptance, effort, optimism, and understanding to improve parenting skills and parent child/co-parent relationships.
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Location
406 Linwood Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14209
Partners of People with PTSD
***NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO COVID-19*** Partners of people with PTSD can struggle to understand their loved one's thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This group provides psychoeducation about the symptoms of PTSD and how these symptoms affect interpersonal relationships. It will be emphasized that a person cannot change another person, but understanding the symptoms of PTSD can facilitate the group member's ability to cope with their partner's PTSD symptoms. Group members learn and discuss the resilience skills of social, emotional, and thinking intelligences, along with acceptance, effort, optimism, and understanding in terms of the partner with PTSD and the partner attending the group.
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Buffalo, NY 14209
Location
Primary Location
Realizing Resilience, LLC
East Amherst, NY 14051
(716) 265-4838