About Carolina
Carolina Magnussen is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who brings 18 years of clinical experience to her work. She meets people where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps to help them feel steadier in daily life. She uses straightforward talk and active listening to address relationship strain, family conflict, trauma, grief, and the pressures of major life changes.
Carolina helps people manage anxiety, stress, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar challenges, and struggles with addiction or compulsive behaviors.
Background and approach
She also supports concerns around intimacy, LGBT issues, body image, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting strain. Her approach mixes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing. She also draws on narrative and solution-focused methods to help people reframe difficult stories and identify small, achievable goals.
Sessions aim to be practical and goal-oriented while holding space for strong emotions. Carolina adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She offers counseling in English and Portuguese and is based in Florida.
People who have faced chronic illness, caregiving stress, divorce, abandonment, or domestic violence have been within her focus areas. She encourages a collaborative process that moves at a pace that feels manageable. Taking a first step can feel hard; Carolina aims to make the next steps clear and doable so people can work toward more stable, meaningful days.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Carolina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and some behavioral concerns by breaking problems down into concrete steps.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices. Mindfulness can help reduce stress, ease strong emotions, and improve focus in daily life. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to help people clarify what they want to change and build motivation one step at a time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carolina will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. She adjusts pace and techniques over time so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to keep regular appointments and to choose the format that fits daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Portuguese