About Dorothy
Dorothy Carskadon is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She presents herself as a resource counselor who shares practical materials and clear guidance. Dorothy uses straightforward tools to help people navigate stress, grief, relationship trouble, addiction, and life transitions.
Dorothy earned a Master of Social Work and has worked extensively with diverse concerns. She emphasizes noticing strengths and building on what already works in a person’s life.
Background and approach
Her style mixes hands-on worksheets, reading suggestions, and short exercises clients can try between sessions. In sessions she focuses on emotions, thoughts, and behaviors together. That means talking about how feelings show up in the body, how thoughts shape choices, and what small steps can change daily patterns.
She also brings mindfulness practices to help people settle and respond more calmly in difficult moments. Dorothy describes herself as Christian and says the Bible is a source of wisdom for her. She also identifies as an LGBTQ+ counselor and supports people across sexual orientation and gender identity.
Her approach is adapted to the person in front of her rather than following a single formula. She uses a mix of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally-focused methods, and solution-focused techniques. Clients can expect practical resources, clear explanations, and a focus on building useful skills for coping, decision-making, and finding purpose.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities, letting the client set the pace while the therapist listens and reflects. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, digs into the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often uses short exercises and worksheets to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors between sessions. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift emotional patterns in relationships or personal life. In online sessions it involves noticing emotional responses, naming them, and trying new ways of interacting or responding to strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. Clients often combine elements from different approaches depending on what works best.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for quick support or homework follow-up. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, allow short problem-solving sessions, and provide different ways to use therapeutic tools between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Arizona
- Languages
- English