About Carin
Carin Skapars helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She offers straightforward support for challenges like low self-esteem, career struggles, parenting strain, and difficult life changes. Carin is a licensed mental health counselor in New York and has twelve years of experience in clinical settings.
She uses practical, goal-focused approaches. In sessions she helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of coping. The work often focuses on small changes that can reduce anxiety and lift mood over time.
Background and approach
Carin adapts her style to each person. Conversations are collaborative and aimed at clear steps people can try between sessions. She listens for what matters most to a person and shapes a plan around those priorities.
Her background includes supporting people through caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, workplace tensions, and end-of-life concerns. That experience informs how she addresses complex problems with steady, realistic strategies. People who choose her can expect a respectful, calm presence and practical tools to manage symptoms and everyday pressures.
She emphasizes measurable progress and helps clients track what works so adjustments can be made as needed.
Approaches you can use online
Carin most often uses cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused approaches in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors to change mood and anxiety. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.Solution-Focused Therapy centers on practical goals and small steps toward change. It helps people break large problems into manageable actions and quickly build momentum toward what they want to see change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they check progress and adjust techniques when needed so the plan stays useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a visual conversation is helpful. Phone sessions can be better if bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give quick access for brief check-ins, homework review, or spaced support between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English