Dr. Carol Carrell
Family-focused therapist with 30 years' experience
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carol
Dr. Carol Carrell offers help for parents and families facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship troubles, parenting challenges, addiction, trauma, and caregiving strain. She names parenting and family concerns among her areas of focus.
Her approach aims to make time in therapy practical and understandable for busy households. Dr. Carol Carrell, LMFT, brings 30 years of counseling experience.
She uses straightforward conversation to identify what is most pressing. She focuses on building trust so people can talk about hard things and feel heard.
Background and approach
Her work blends several methods, including Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Existential Therapy. She adapts those methods to fit each family's needs rather than using a single formula. Sessions often include communication skills, problem solving, and emotional regulation practice.
She has experience with caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family dynamics, and concern areas that touch multiple family members. She also has long experience addressing issues related to sexual orientation and coming out, and she has worked with people facing trauma, abuse, and addiction.
Sessions are offered by a California-licensed marriage and family therapist and are intended to help clients set goals and work toward change. The emphasis is on practical steps parents and family members can try between sessions to improve communication and manage stress.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a nonjudgmental space so people can explore feelings and priorities. This approach helps with building trust, improving communication, and making clear decisions about family matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds specific skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships, which can help when stress and anger affect family interactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them as progress is seen.
Online delivery offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family schedules, caregiving duties, and work. Many families find the variety of formats helps keep continuity when life gets busy while still allowing focused work on communication and coping skills.
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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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