About Carley
Carley Rothstein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience in education and clinical care. She started as a public school Exceptional Children’s teacher in North Carolina and later ran a tutoring and behavioral intervention business before moving into developmental services for infants and toddlers.
Carley blends those early education roles with clinical social work to support people facing complex challenges. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from Penn State World Campus.
Background and approach
As an LCSW she has provided outpatient therapy for depression, anxiety, trauma, and ADHD, among other concerns. She has also worked in schools, medical settings, group homes, and assisted-living facilities. Carley uses a client-centered style in sessions.
She focuses on practical skills people can use between meetings. That might look like behavior-focused strategies, mindfulness practices, or tools to manage emotions and daily routines. Her background includes supporting people with adoption and foster care questions, caregiving stress, aging-related adjustments, and neurodivergent needs such as autism and ADHD.
She also has experience with body image, kink-affirming care, and issues related to grief and life transitions. Outside of work she is an animal lover and caregiver to a son with Fragile X Syndrome, and often spends time with family, dogs, and bunnies. She aims to help clients find steadier routines, clearer communication, and more manageable days.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room and uses conversation to set goals and priorities; it helps when someone wants sessions that respond to their pace and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for worry, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use tools that match personal comfort and routine.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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