About Carrie
Carrie Ross is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who draws on years of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and depression. She focuses on practical skills that make daily life easier. Carrie aims to help people build stronger coping habits and clearer emotional control.
Carrie uses a client-centered way of working that keeps the person's goals in view. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods help people set realistic steps and stay motivated. Her background includes many years as a social worker, with 17 years holding an LCSW license. That experience informs a straightforward style that emphasizes skill-building and small, achievable changes.
Sessions tend to focus on things people can try right away. Carrie also pays attention to life situations such as adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment issues, and caregiver stress. She addresses more specific challenges too, like eating and food-related issues, isolation, and post-traumatic stress.
People who work with her can expect an approach that balances listening with practical suggestions. The aim is to reduce overwhelm and build steady routines. Carrie speaks English and practices in North Carolina.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding what matters most to the person and shaping sessions around their goals. It involves straightforward conversations where the therapist listens, reflects, and helps you decide what to work on next.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In sessions you learn to notice unhelpful thoughts and practice replacing them with more helpful ways of thinking, which often reduces anxiety and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try different techniques, and together you will choose what fits best. That collaborative planning helps ensure methods match your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers real practical benefits. Video calls let you meet face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits your day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to share brief updates, practice skills between meetings, or fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options aim to make regular progress more doable for people with different routines and constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English