About Carol
Carol Mackiewicz uses a client-centered approach to help people find their own answers. She brings 11 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor and blends talking with creative art activities. Sessions are meant to help people calm down, make decisions, and feel more confident in daily life.
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder. She also helps with grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, compassion fatigue, and postpartum issues.
Background and approach
Carol pays attention to how life changes and relationships affect mood and self-worth. In a typical session clients may make simple art while talking about what matters to them. No art skill is required.
The art process becomes a way to notice feelings, practice self-soothing, and try new ways of responding to problems. Carol holds an M.A. and is a licensed mental health counselor - LMHC - based in Massachusetts. She draws on creative work and a listening style that centers the person in front of her.
Practical skills and small experiments between sessions are part of how she helps people move forward. Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to sort out goals. Carol aims to help people find clearer steps toward the life they want.
She combines art activities with conversational techniques to build insight and new coping habits.
Client-centered care and online art-supported therapy
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and perspective. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and supports clients in discovering their next steps. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, and decisions about work or life changes.Carol also blends simple art-making into sessions as a way to notice feelings and practice self-soothing. Creating without pressure can bring new insights into grief, trauma responses, and feelings of emptiness. The art activities are guided and require no prior experience or skill.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Carol works collaboratively to decide what methods fit each person's needs and preferences. Goals, pacing, and the mix of talking and art are adjusted together so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work. Phone sessions work well for a shorter check-in or when bandwidth is limited. Messaging and live chat let people share thoughts between sessions or fit therapy into busy days. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English