Carolyn Drakas
Compassionate, practical support for parenting and life challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carolyn
Carolyn Drakas is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and parenting challenges. She practices in Florida and brings 22 years of experience to each session. She treats relationship struggles, grief, self-esteem problems, and sleep or eating concerns with patience and respect.
Her style is practical and compassionate. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs. She listens first, then works with clients to set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on usable skills and small changes that add up over time. Carolyn uses a mix of well-established approaches to guide work in therapy. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help clients live by their values even when feelings are hard. Attachment-based ideas inform how she understands relationship patterns and hurts from the past. Dialectical behavior strategies are applied when emotional regulation and tolerating distress are priorities.
Client-centered principles keep the process collaborative and respectful. People work with her for a range of concerns including caregiver stress, body image, blended family issues, chronic illness, and coping after disasters. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
The approach is straightforward: listen, plan, practice, adjust, and move forward together.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and still take actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where avoidance is common. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood, and sleep or eating concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Carolyn collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will explain why a technique might help and adjust the plan as needs change.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to attend from home or while traveling and allow more flexibility in how people share and practice skills between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these options to keep therapy consistent and practical for busy lives.
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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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