Carley Rothstein
Experienced family-focused therapist
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carley
Carley Rothstein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience supporting children, teens, young adults, and families. She began her career as an Exceptional Children’s teacher in North Carolina and later ran a tutoring and behavioral intervention business. Carley also worked as an educational and developmental therapist with the state infant-toddler program, collaborating with the Children’s Developmental Services Agency.
She earned a Graduate Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis from Penn State World Campus.
Background and approach
She completed a Master’s Degree in Social Work at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her license is NC LCSW C013284. Carley has provided outpatient therapy for mood and anxiety concerns, trauma, LGBTQ issues, foster care and adoption questions, ADHD, and autism spectrum needs.
She has experience with self-harm and suicidality, as well as complex trauma in younger clients. She has also offered school-based psychotherapy and integrated behavioral health work with adults in clinic settings. Her work has extended to group homes and assisted-living facilities, helping people and their families adjust to aging and dementia-related changes.
She mentions supporting caregivers and guiding families through end-of-life transitions. Carley emphasizes a client-centered approach and practical support. Outside of work she is an animal lover and advocate for the special needs community.
She spends time with her son and their dogs and bunnies, and often travels to the mountains to visit family.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online family care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist follows the family’s priorities, reflects concerns back, and helps households set practical goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, sleep problems, mood, and parenting stress, often with short exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Adjustments are made as progress becomes clear so work stays useful and relevant to the family’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy households. Video calls let families meet face-to-face from home. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide options when schedules or attention needs make longer sessions hard. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into school runs, caregiving duties, or variable schedules while still working on skills and communication.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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