Carol Gross
Compassionate ACT-informed therapy for practical change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Utah
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carol
Carol Gross is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She centers her work on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside cognitive and mindfulness-based tools. She writes plainly and focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, practical steps toward it.
She began her professional life working with data and computer systems before moving into mental health. That background shaped a methodical, problem-solving style she blends with compassion.
Background and approach
Her experience includes anxiety, depression, mood disorders, addiction, trauma, anger, ADHD, grief, and hospice-related concerns. In sessions she explains ideas simply and offers hands-on strategies. Clients learn to track what causes distress and practice skills that reduce avoidance.
She uses elements of cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills and emotional regulation. Mindfulness practices and ACT exercises are part of her toolbox. She often uses the ACT Matrix as a visual guide to sort competing values and behaviors.
The work focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings and choosing actions that align with what matters most. Her approach emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes. She helps people build routines for sleep, eating, and stress management, and supports problem-solving for career or caregiving stress.
Sessions aim to increase flexibility so people can live more of the life they value.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and then take small steps toward what they value. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment so strong emotions have less control over choices and daily routines.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, review what has helped or not helped before, and try different techniques together to find the best fit. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, and adjustments are made as needed during the course of care.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend regularly, practice skills between sessions, and get support from home or work. Licensed professionals can use these tools to share worksheets, guide mindfulness exercises, and coach through real-time problems.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
Next step
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