About Carol
Carol Queen is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and ADHD. Carol aims to build a calm space where people feel heard and can start making changes at their own pace.
She favors straightforward, hands-on methods that help with daily coping. In sessions she listens first, then helps people try small, doable steps to reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
That can look like skill practice, shifting unhelpful thoughts, or trying new routines to improve sleep and focus. Her background includes five years of clinical work across settings that involved crisis intervention and substance use support. Those experiences shaped a pragmatic style suited to people facing big transitions or persistent stress.
She draws on proven techniques such as cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness to address symptoms people bring to therapy. Carol also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and commit to changes that matter to them. Attachment-based insights inform how she talks about relationship patterns and communication.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Her approach emphasizes empathy, active listening, and practical tools. Sessions may include short exercises, behavioral experiments, or skills training to build confidence and reduce reactivity.
Carol encourages gradual progress and supports clients as they try new habits over time.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values. It helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about what to change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses practical exercises to shift patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. It works well for worry, sleep problems, and motivation issues. Attachment-Based Therapy examines relationship patterns and communication habits to help people understand repeated dynamics and practice new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carol treats therapy as a team effort and will help clients choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on what helps and what doesn't, so clients remain involved in shaping the path forward.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or chat can support ongoing skill practice or brief updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities while keeping care consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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