About Carol
Carol Harris is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience helping people handle stress, grief, depression, anxiety, and ADHD-related concerns. She works in New York and draws on a calm, patient approach to help people talk through parenting worries, relationship strain, and life changes. Carol keeps language simple and focuses on practical steps that fit daily life.
Carol uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and make room for hard feelings while moving toward meaningful goals. Attachment-based ideas help her look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Mindfulness practices are introduced in short, usable ways to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Her client-centered stance means sessions are paced to the individual's comfort and goals. Carol has worked across age groups and with people facing medical illness, caregiving stress, and aging concerns.
She has long experience supporting people with addiction, trauma, and intimacy-related issues. This background helps when symptoms overlap and multiple concerns come up together. In sessions she aims to make therapy straightforward.
Expect clear conversations, practical strategies, and support for real-life changes. The focus is on small, manageable steps that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Carol often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical approach that helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to change how they feel. It can help with anxiety, depression, and habits that get in the way of daily life. She also works with acceptance and commitment therapy, which focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and taking committed action even when uncomfortable feelings are present. This approach can be useful for stress, life transitions, and attention challenges.Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose techniques and pace that fit the client's life rather than following a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video lets people use visual cues and more conversational depth. Phone sessions can be simpler when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, practice between sessions, and keeping momentum during a transition. These options aim to make regular, actionable support more accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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