About Carol
Carol Gross is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 25 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addiction, and other life stresses. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Carol began her career working with data and systems, then moved into clinical practice. That blend of analytic thinking and human concern shapes how she works.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be organized and goal-focused, while still leaving room for people to tell their stories. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral ideas to help clients notice unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness skills and simple behavioral experiments are common tools.
Carol explains things plainly and helps people try small changes between sessions. Client-centered listening is part of her style. She prioritizes understanding each person's values and daily challenges.
That helps when choosing practical steps that fit real life. Over the years she has supported people through trauma, mood disorders, relationship struggles, caregiving stress, anger, sleep and eating problems, and work or career transitions. She combines experience with straightforward skill-building to help people manage symptoms and move toward clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then identify actions that match their values. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, mood problems, and sleep or eating concerns. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes warm, nonjudgmental listening and helps people feel heard while they clarify what matters to them.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carol will work together with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, lifestyle, and preferences. That means starting with what feels most relevant and adjusting the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or fit during a lunch break. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and written reflections easier to fit into a busy day. These formats help people maintain momentum between sessions and try skills in real-world situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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