About Carole
Carole LaFreniere is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports clients dealing with grief, addiction, ADHD, career questions, and major life changes. Carole practices in Wisconsin and brings eight years of experience to her work as a clinician.
She focuses on building a trusting relationship first. Carole listens without judgment and uses a collaborative approach to set clear goals.
Background and approach
She combines practical strategies with exploration of values to help people move forward. Her methods include cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness practices to improve present-moment awareness, and client-centered work that keeps the person’s goals central. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to align actions with values, and she offers EMDR when trauma processing is needed.
Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and preferences. Carole takes a strengths-based view and looks at how the person’s environment affects change. She can help create a tailored plan for coping skills, relapse prevention, emotional regulation, or grieving processes.
Carole is practical and warm in sessions and can use humor where it fits. She works evenings and weekends to fit schedules. To start, she asks questions about goals and then designs a plan that feels doable for the client.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take steps toward those values even when emotions are difficult. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problems like anger or addictive habits.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, empathetic relationship where the person’s own goals guide the work. This approach helps people feel heard and build confidence to try new coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work with the client to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Treatment plans can include one or more approaches and are adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for close interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Colorado, New Hampshire, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English