About Carol
Carol Queen is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, down-to-earth mental health support. She offers short-term and ongoing help for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Carol aims to make the first step easier by listening without judgment and building a straightforward plan clients can follow.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person’s needs, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of responding, and clarify what matters most to them. Carol draws on five years of professional work in North Carolina. Her background includes crisis intervention, substance abuse treatment, and intensive family interventions.
She has worked with adults across different stages of life and has experience related to caregiving, illness, and trauma. Sessions focus on concrete skills and real-life changes. People can expect a collaborative, empathetic space where goals are set together and progress is tracked.
Carol also offers options for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. Her practice supports issues such as addiction, grief, intimacy concerns, sleeping and eating difficulties, caregiver stress, and adjustment after separation. Carol believes in helping people regain a sense of control and build practical habits that match their values and daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, name what matters to them, and take small committed steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress and then testing simple changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, so therapy feels tailored rather than fixed.
Online formats - video, phone, live chat, and text messaging - make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick skill practice, brief updates, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options support regular contact, flexible scheduling, and practical application of skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English