I have been a practicing therapist since 1994 and have specializations in: Pastoral Counseling; Women's issues including Aging, Body Image, Rape, Domestic Violence and Incest; Depression, Loss, Grief and Anxiety; Couples Counseling; Serious Mental Illness issues with individuals or families concerning Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and other illnesses that often require long-term treatment and medications.
I have a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University, FL, and a Master's degree in Divinity from Duke University , NC. I believe that trust and compassion are key elements to successful therapy, as is regular engagement in therapy sessions, and commitment from both the therapist and the client. I often teach my clients techniques in breathing, using imagery, and journaling to use on their own when they have to confront issues that we work on in therapy. My style of counseling involves practices based in many psychological theories, and is tailored to the individual with whom I am working.
Our sessions consist of conversations that may involve problem solving, teaching, guiding, looking more closely at issues that have been causing trouble for a long time, things that may never have been spoken of before, uncomfortable topics - whatever a client comes with is where we start, and together we will go from there. I am not here to judge, or come to conclusions about what you do or who you are. I am here to help you through whatever it is that causes you to want to talk to a professional therapist, and I will work with you as long as you need to heal and/or reach your goal(s).
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Aging and geriatric issues, Attachment issues, BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, Blended family issues, Body image, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Hoarding, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Intellectual disability, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Veteran and Armed Forces Issues, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Phobias, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Smoking / vaping cessation, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
FL LMHC mh7183
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Carol is wonderful. I am terrible at writing back to people and tend to recede into solitude quite often. Carol, however, never gives up on me, and always reaches out. Feel like she really cares.
Written on Mar 21, 2017 after therapy with Carol for 5 months
Carol is an incredible professional therapist. I've known her know for over a year and half and she helped me focusing on me. Making sense out of messy feelings. Her way of cutting through the fog with kind and yet effective words is unique. I could not imagine the past year without her precious words.
Written on Dec 22, 2016 after therapy with Carol for 1 year and 7 months
I just started working with her and she seems very thorough. She has been very quick to response and I felt that she really seemed interested in helping me, came across as a very genuine, caring person.
Written on Sep 18, 2016 after therapy with Carol for 1 week on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship, self esteem, and depression
I've been working with Carol for 2 months and have had a ton of break-throughs since. Her ability to so quickly analyze and interpret situations has helped me understand a lot in a very short amount of time.
Written on Mar 30, 2016 after therapy with Carol for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, eating, self esteem, and depression
Carol has really helped me work out my feelings. She has never pressured me to talk about things I'm not ready to and has accepted my weird habits.
Written on Feb 08, 2016 after therapy with Carol for 6 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, anger, and depression
Carol has been a pleasure. A very genuine and thoughtful therapist. I wanted to give online therapy a real chance to see how effective it was. It's been a few months and I'm already noticing a big difference in my day to day life. She listens and offers great perspective on issues that I find hard to deal with.
Written on Dec 15, 2015 after therapy with Carol for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship, intimacy-related, and depression