About Carla
Carla Jones helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or burned out. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use between meetings. Carla is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience and practices from Virginia.
She uses short-term, goal-oriented methods to address stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and addiction challenges. Carla also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, trouble sleeping, anger, compassion fatigue, and the strain of parenting.
How Carla works
LGBT issues, relationship struggles, career changes, self-esteem, and ADHD are part of her work as well. Carla favors approaches that break problems into manageable parts. She helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also focuses on quick, practical solutions that fit a person’s daily life. Sessions are built around what a person needs right now. Carla and the client set goals together and track small steps toward them.
She aims to make therapy usable and relevant rather than abstract. People describe the choice to start therapy as hard. Carla speaks plainly about the process and sets clear expectations for each meeting.
Her goal is to help people leave sessions with tools they can try that week.
Carla lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Carla works with
The areas below are the ones Carla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Carla uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In practice this means identifying patterns, trying new responses, and using small skill-building exercises between sessions to reduce anxiety, lift mood, or improve sleep. She also uses solution-focused therapy which zeroes in on what’s working and builds from there. That approach helps people set clear, short-term goals and test practical changes that can make daily life easier. Choosing a therapy approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options and tailor techniques to the client’s goals, pace, and preferences. Together they decide what to try first and adjust as progress is made. Online sessions make this collaborative work flexible. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when visual cues help. Phone sessions are useful when a camera isn’t practical or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in, do brief coaching, or maintain continuity between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and try techniques in real time.Start online instead of waiting
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A practical next step
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