Carol Williams
Compassionate, practical care for stressed parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carol
Carol Williams is a licensed social worker with 14 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and other life challenges. She speaks plainly and listens for what is not being said. Her approach aims to calm overwhelming thoughts so clients can notice their inner guidance and make clearer choices.
Carol blends practical tools with attention to breath, health, and meditation. Sessions include careful listening and techniques drawn from evidence-informed therapies.
Background and approach
She looks for strengths born from struggle while also addressing the parts of pain that cause ongoing harm. Her work often focuses on trauma, addiction, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, and identity issues. She pays attention to family of origin patterns and communication problems that keep people stuck.
Her goal is to reduce disruption so people can act in ways that match their values. Carol values a collaborative process. She partners with each person to ask better questions and test new ways of responding to stress.
When clear answers are not yet available, she helps create space to notice what comes next. Based in Florida, Carol holds the LCSW credential, Florida LCSW license number SW11465. She works with a range of concerns and uses a mix of methods to help clients find what fits them best.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Carol often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy when working with stress, grief, or relationship distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - ACT - focuses on noticing painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and taking action aligned with personal values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current connections and communication.She treats choosing an approach as a shared task. The therapist and client discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. The process is collaborative so the work fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Carol uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions flexible. These options let people fit therapy around work, parenting, and travel. They also allow continuity when life gets busy or plans change, so therapeutic work can continue from different locations.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Carol
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point