About Carol
Carol Gross is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 25 years of practice. She approaches care with practical, down-to-earth support. She focuses on helping people move through anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and changes in mood and behavior.
Carol often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness tools to help people notice patterns that get in the way. She explains ideas in simple language and uses workable exercises rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build small, steady changes that add up over time. Her background includes years working with trauma, anger, ADHD, sleep and eating issues, and caregiving stress. She also helps people manage compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
Carol draws on experience with behavioral analysis and human behavior to shape practical plans for daily life. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that looks at values, goals, and everyday habits. Carol uses brief exercises, skills practice, and conversational problem solving to improve coping and flexibility.
She encourages people to notice what matters to them and take steps toward it. Sessions are offered in English from Utah. Carol blends compassion with straightforward guidance to help people reduce distress and increase functioning.
She invites people to begin by describing what they want to change so a step-by-step plan can be built together.
How Carol’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing painful feelings and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps when anxiety, depression, or life transitions make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts and behaviors into manageable parts and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and everyday routines, then suggest one or a mix of approaches. Decisions are made collaboratively and adjusted as needed based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets the therapist and client use visual cues and do guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow brief questions, skill reminders, or ongoing support between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still using ACT, CBT, and mindfulness techniques.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English