About Cara
Cara Greene greets people with a calm, steady presence and a focus on practical help. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience and offers straightforward support for ongoing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her style is compassionate and non-judgmental, aimed at helping people feel more hopeful and able to make changes.
Cara uses a listening-first approach. She makes space for people to tell their story at a pace that feels right.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize understanding patterns, feelings, and relationships that shape daily life. Conversations are intended to lead to clearer choices and small, doable steps forward. Her background includes work in independent practice and community mental health settings.
She has served as a director of social work and taught clinical training, supervision, diagnosis, and treatment at the graduate level. That experience informs a practical focus on problem solving and emotional insight. Cara focuses on a wide range of concerns such as relationships, parenting, grief, caregiving, chronic illness, career stress, self-esteem, and mood challenges including bipolar disorder.
She also supports people facing blended family issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and the impacts of serious illness. Sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules. Cara works in English and practices from Nevada as an LCSW.
She aims to build a collaborative plan that fits each person’s goals and daily life.
Psychodynamic insight and online therapy options
Cara works primarily with psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on understanding how past experiences and relationship patterns influence current feelings and choices. This approach can help when anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, or repeated personal patterns feel stuck.She brings listening and careful reflection to sessions, using insight about patterns to inform practical next steps. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cara will work with each person to decide whether more reflective work, problem-focused strategies, or a mix of both best fits their needs and goals.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video helps recreate face-to-face conversation and supports visual connection. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits into a work break. Live chat and text messaging can suit people who prefer typing to speaking or who want brief check-ins between sessions. Together these formats offer flexibility so therapy can fit into different schedules and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English