About Carolyn
Carolyn Moore is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Arizona with 23 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people recover after painful experiences and on navigating major life changes. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, grief, and trauma-related concerns.
Carolyn takes a direct and compassionate approach. Sessions are respectful and interactive. She helps clients name what feels hard, learn practical coping skills, and set clear goals for change.
Background and approach
Many people seek her support for issues like relationship strain, parenting stress, workplace difficulties, and problems with self-esteem or boundaries. She also works with survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and other forms of abuse. Carolyn includes attention to codependency, family of origin concerns, and feelings of guilt and shame when those come up.
Her methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, EMDR, and trauma-focused therapy. She adjusts methods to fit each person rather than using a single menu of techniques. The emphasis is on practical steps the client can use between sessions.
Carolyn aims to build a collaborative relationship. She helps people weigh options and practice new ways of coping. The goal is steady progress toward clearer thinking, healthier boundaries, and greater self-compassion.
How Carolyn Uses Trauma-Informed and Practical Approaches Online
Carolyn commonly integrates client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy in online sessions. Client-centered work means the conversation is led by the client’s needs and feelings, with the therapist reflecting and helping the person make sense of their experience. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small experiments to change patterns of feeling and behavior, which helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress.She also uses EMDR for trauma-related memories when that fits a person’s goals. EMDR is a structured method that guides attention while processing painful memories to reduce their emotional charge; it is often chosen by people dealing with past abuse or post-traumatic stress symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carolyn will discuss options, try different techniques, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Together the therapist and client set goals and check progress, switching emphasis if a different method would suit better.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for hands-on therapeutic work and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break more easily. Live chat or text messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coping supports, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options aim to make regular therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English