Carmen Gomez Abreu
Supportive LCSW with 30 years' experience
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carmen
Carmen Gomez Abreu greets worried parents with steady experience and a calm, practical style. She is a Florida licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with 30 years in the field. She listens first to figure out immediate concerns and what a family hopes to change.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on small, doable steps a parent can take at home. In sessions she helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and grief.
Background and approach
She also addresses relationship tensions, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, and difficulties tied to trauma or past losses. Carmen uses simple tools to improve communication and coping, not jargon-heavy explanations. Her clinical background includes techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and attachment-based work.
She blends these approaches to match each person's goals and strengths. The result is practical guidance plus space to process emotions. Carmen offers therapy in English and Spanish, and she works with clients across Florida.
Her style is collaborative - she helps parents set realistic goals and keeps steps clear and manageable. Sessions move at a pace that fits each family’s schedule and needs. Many clients describe relief from feeling overwhelmed after a few practical shifts.
Carmen aims to build resilience and clearer routines so families can handle stress and change more easily. Her long experience makes her comfortable addressing complex issues while keeping the focus on everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients focus on what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds influence current relationships and communication; it helps people improve closeness and trust in important relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen collaborates with each client to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She may combine acceptance work with attachment-focused conversations or bring in cognitive techniques as needed to solve immediate problems.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls can replicate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are useful when video isn’t possible, and live chat or text messaging allow for shorter check-ins or extra support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress and usable skills.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
Talk to Carmen
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- Stop at any point