Carly Anne Lockowitz
Calm skills for strong emotions
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carly
Carly Anne Lockowitz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping adults manage mood shifts, depression, anxiety, and trauma. She uses a down-to-earth style that aims to be compassionate and straightforward. Carly centers sessions on practical skills people can use between appointments.
She leans on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, especially skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness. Those tools are woven into regular sessions so clients can practice coping strategies for intense feelings and overwhelming moments.
Background and approach
Carly also brings a trauma-informed perspective to understand how past events affect current reactions. Sessions emphasize collaboration and building on strengths. Carly works with each person to set achievable goals and practice concrete techniques.
The work often focuses on reducing distress in day-to-day life and improving how someone manages strong emotions. Her clinical background as an LCSW and nine years of experience inform a steady, skill-based approach. She aims to make therapy feel practical rather than theoretical, with simple strategies clients can try right away.
Carly supports people dealing with relationship strain, family concerns, self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. People seeking help for attachment issues, dissociation, impulsivity, or feelings of emptiness can expect a mix of skills training and trauma-aware discussion. The pace and focus are set together, and sessions move toward tools that fit each person’s life.
Online therapy using skills and trauma-aware care
Carly integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness work into sessions to help people manage intense emotions and reduce reactive behavior. DBT focuses on building skills such as emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness so clients can handle crises and improve day-to-day functioning. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept up in them and supports calmer responses to stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Carly will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs change.
Confirm session formats before booking so you know what options are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible to continue work on skills between appointments and to apply techniques during ordinary routines, which can help learning stick over time.
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.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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