Cara Greene
Seasoned clinical social worker for family and parenting
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cara
Cara Greene is a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and life changes. Her style is calm and practical, offering a space where people can speak honestly at a pace that feels safe.
She aims to listen first and help people find clear steps forward when they are ready. Cara trained in psychology and social work and completed post-graduate training in modern psychoanalysis.
Background and approach
She has worked in independent practice and community mental health settings, and she has led social work programs as a director. Her background also includes teaching clinical training, supervision, diagnosis, and treatment at the graduate level. In sessions she draws from psychodynamic therapy and related methods to look at recurring patterns, early relationships, and emotional habits that affect current life.
That approach helps when worries, anger, low self-worth, or repeating relationship problems keep showing up. She balances insight with practical conversation so clients can try different ways of coping between sessions. Cara has experience supporting people coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, blended family issues, aging concerns, and the impact of major life events.
She also addresses career strain, parenting challenges, fatherhood issues, and family of origin problems. Her work often includes grief, forgiveness, guilt, and shame. Sessions are offered in English and are provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Cara practices in Nevada and holds a New York and Nevada LCSW license.
Psychodynamic work and online therapy options
Psychodynamic therapy looks at repeated patterns, early relationships, and emotional habits that influence current behavior. It helps when someone wants to understand why they react in certain ways, feel stuck in relationships, or carry old hurts into present life.Cara also uses elements from related clinical training to balance deeper reflection with practical discussion about coping. That mix can be useful for people dealing with anxiety, grief, caregiver stress, life transitions, and family problems where both insight and clear next steps are needed.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether deeper psychodynamic exploration or a more practical focus is the best fit, and that plan can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or caregiving responsibilities and to continue support across life changes.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English
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