About Carolyn
Carolyn Ellis is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges that affect daily life. Carolyn aims to make first conversations straightforward and calm for worried parents and individuals.
She has worked in schools, mental health agencies, and independent practice. That mix of settings shaped a practical approach to common problems like low self-esteem, parenting strain, and relationship conflict.
Background and approach
She also has experience with trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and care concerns related to adoption and foster situations. Carolyn draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create respectful, person-focused sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Solution-Focused Therapy guides short-term goals and concrete steps when someone needs direction fast. Sessions are adapted to each person. Carolyn listens first and then suggests small, manageable changes.
She works with people on communication skills, coping strategies, and planning for life transitions like divorce, blended family adjustments, or career shifts. Her style is warm and direct. She encourages practical tools for daily life alongside space to process feelings like anger, grief, or shame.
Parents who are worried about their child or their own stress will find clear, real-world steps to try between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist and on building trust through respect and understanding. Online sessions use that approach to help people feel heard and to shape conversations around what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice patterns of thought and behavior that keep them stuck, then try small experiments to change them. In remote sessions, CBT often includes homework, thought records, and short behavioral tasks that can be practiced between video or phone meetings.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on clear goals and small steps toward them. It works well online for people who want a focused plan and measurable progress over a few sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then choose or combine methods that fit. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone sessions use less bandwidth and work well when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use methods like CBT homework or solution-focused steps in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English