About Carol
Carol Metcalfe is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 24 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship struggles, family conflict, grief and loss, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions. Carol also focuses on trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She works with people dealing with major life changes and questions about life purpose and self-love. Carol keeps sessions straightforward and respectful.
How Carol works
She aims to create an open space where clients can share feelings and worries without judgment. Conversations tend to be practical and focused on steps people can use between sessions. She emphasizes warmth and compassion while keeping goals clear.
Her approach blends listening with problem-solving. Carol uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person. She incorporates cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping skills.
Solution-focused ideas help set small, achievable goals and track progress. Carol has worked across many settings over two decades, helping people manage grief, caregiving stress, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and end-of-life matters. She also supports those coping with cancer in the family, forgiveness work, and healing guilt and shame.
Sessions are offered in English and are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Carol describes the first step as a collaborative one: she meets people where they are, helps set clear goals, and walks alongside them as they make changes.
Carol lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Carol works with
The areas below are the ones Carol selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Carol’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s perspective. It helps people feel heard while they figure out what changes they want to make and why those changes matter to them.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thought patterns and practice new coping skills for anxiety, depression, stress, and related issues.
Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, practical steps toward specific goals. It’s useful when someone wants quick, measurable progress on problems like communication, parenting challenges, or coping with life changes.
Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adapt methods to fit the individual. Clients help set the pace and priorities throughout treatment.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or screens feel tiring. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins and people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and stick with the plan.
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