About Carole
Carole Boes provides calm, direct support for people facing big life changes and intense emotions. She focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, grief, trauma, and relationship problems. Carole offers practical steps and steady listening so people can feel less overwhelmed and more able to cope.
Carole brings 35 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Pennsylvania. She meets clients where they are and aims for straightforward work that fits each person's goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on immediate coping skills alongside longer-term emotional processing. The work typically includes exploring how past experiences affect current feelings and patterns. Carole uses strategies that help people notice unhelpful thoughts, try a different response, and build new routines.
She also supports those dealing with grief, parenting strain, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress. Trauma and its aftermath are addressed with sensitivity. Carole pays attention to symptoms of post-traumatic stress, postpartum depression, and reactions after sexual assault or other abuse.
She also helps people manage workplace stress, addiction-related issues, and mood disorders like bipolar and seasonal affective disorder. Practical coaching is part of her approach when clients want direction on goals or behavior change. Carole aims to combine compassionate listening with clear, doable steps so people can move forward at their own pace.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience without judgement. It helps people feel heard and decide what changes matter most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process upsetting events and reduce their hold on day-to-day life by using careful, paced techniques tailored to each person's readiness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then try methods that suit those needs. That plan can shift over time as progress is made or priorities change, so clients and therapist decide the best path collaboratively.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions fit when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, coaching on specific skills, or when a shorter interaction is needed between scheduled sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English