Carolina Magnussen
Supportive, practical therapy for family concerns
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carolina
Carolina Magnussen is a licensed mental health counselor who uses practical therapies to help families and parents find clearer paths forward. She blends short-term, skills-based techniques with mindful awareness to address everyday struggles. Carolina speaks English and Portuguese and works with people across Florida and internationally.
She holds the FL LMHC license MH18760 and brings 18 years of professional experience to her work. Clients often come for help with relationship tension, family problems, or parenting challenges.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma, grief, stress, anxiety, depression, and issues with intimacy or addiction. Carolina pays attention to how life events and roles shape coping, self-worth, and daily functioning. Her sessions focus on practical changes and clearer thinking.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful patterns and on Solution-Focused and Motivational Interviewing techniques to set realistic goals. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and to strengthen present-moment awareness. Carolina adapts discussions and plans to each person’s situation.
She aims for straightforward conversations that lead to concrete steps at home. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every interaction. Parents and caregivers reading this will find a therapist who prioritizes workable strategies and steady support.
Her bilingual skills in English and Portuguese make it easier for some families to express complex feelings across languages.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Carolina often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach breaks problems into smaller parts and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, or relationship patterns. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help clients build awareness of their reactions and to reduce emotional reactivity. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, grief, and parenting challenges that feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carolina will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then tailor methods to each person’s needs. She adapts interventions over time based on what is working and what needs adjustment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to connect from different locations. Many people find that remote sessions allow steady progress while managing everyday responsibilities.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
Next step
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