About Carol
Carol Stevens is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience based in New York. She meets people where they are and helps them tackle stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, addictions, grief, and intimacy concerns. Her manner is direct but compassionate, focused on practical steps people can use right away.
Carol creates a space where clients can speak honestly about difficult feelings. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build clearer choices.
How Carol works
She listens for what matters most and helps shape small, manageable changes. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and family of origin issues. She also supports people facing caregiving stress, fertility or cancer-related challenges, and struggles with codependency or control.
Over time she has worked with concerns around sleep, career transitions, and parenting stress. Carol draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s goals. She uses solution-focused techniques to set concrete steps and trauma-focused approaches when past harm affects daily life.
Existential ideas help people clarify values and meaning during big life changes. Sessions are offered in English and Carol accepts international clients for online work. Her approach balances empathy with clear guidance, helping people move from feeling stuck to making steady progress.
Carol lists 4 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW-R |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 36 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy with flexible formats
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person first. The therapist listens carefully and follows the client's goals, helping people name what matters and decide next steps. This approach is useful for stress, low self-esteem, relationship concerns, and times of life change.Solution-Focused Therapy narrows work to practical, short-term steps. Sessions identify small changes that can make daily life easier and track progress week to week. This method often helps with coping strategies, career decisions, sleep routines, and moving past specific problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carol will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying things, assessing what helps, and shifting focus when needed so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video works well for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good shorter option and use less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, written reflections, or flexible scheduling during hectic weeks.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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