Carol Harris, LCSW - Therapist in New York

About Carol

Carol Harris is a licensed clinical social worker who helps parents and individuals facing everyday family and parenting challenges. She listens without judgment and works with people to make practical changes they can use at home. Her style is patient and straightforward, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable.

Carol brings 25 years of practice in New York to her work. She has a long track record supporting people with depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, stress, and addiction.

Background and approach

She also assists those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem struggles, and the strain that comes with major life transitions. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods. Carol uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change it.

She draws on acceptance and commitment strategies to help people identify values and take small, committed steps toward them. Attachment-based ideas guide work on relationship patterns and connection. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.

Carol helps clients set clear, manageable aims and practices skills between meetings. She explains ideas in plain language and offers tools parents can try with their children or young adults. Clients who want a steady, experienced guide through parenting stress, grief, medical or aging issues, or changes in work and identity will find a practical ally.

Carol aims to make therapy useful and usable in everyday life.

How Carol’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, practical steps toward those values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges when clients want clearer priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing the behaviors that follow. It helps with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation by teaching simple skills to use between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape patterns today and supports people who want to improve connection and communication.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Carol will talk with each client about goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This collaborative process aims to find practical tools that fit daily life and parenting needs.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to check in between meetings. Many clients find the variety of formats helps maintain consistency and lets them use the method that feels most comfortable at the moment.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does Carol address?

She works with family and parenting concerns plus depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and related areas listed in her profile.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her sessions are patient and conversational. She mixes practical skill teaching with reflection so clients leave with things to try between sessions.

How much experience does she have?

She has 25 years of clinical experience working in New York with adults across a wide range of concerns.

What are her credentials and location?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in New York with license number NY LCSW 047015 and practices from New York.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin a therapy relationship?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Grief

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 25 years
Licensed: New York
Languages: English

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