About Carole
Carole Boes offers a calm, steady presence for people facing heavy life challenges. She prioritizes clear listening and practical steps so conversations feel useful from the first session. Her style suits someone who wants direct support with emotions, decisions, or coping skills.
Carole is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience. She has spent much of her career helping people manage trauma, mood disorders, and major life transitions.
How Carole works
Her work often focuses on grief, stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship issues. She also supports people dealing with postpartum depression, bipolar disorder, and seasonal mood shifts. In sessions she combines client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work.
That means she listens closely, helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns, and practices small, doable changes together. For trauma-related concerns she draws on trauma-focused methods to help process painful memories at a manageable pace. Carole also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and to build sustainable habits.
She pays attention to family and parenting pressures, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, and workplace difficulties when those issues come up. Her approach aims to build confidence and practical coping tools. She practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
Carole frames therapy as collaborative work tailored to each person's goals and pace.
Carole lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Carole works with
The areas below are the ones Carole selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches you can use online with a licensed professional
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they hear, and helps clarify goals and values to guide next steps. This approach is useful for people who need acceptance and clear direction before trying new strategies.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice small experiments to change behavior and mood. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood-related concerns where concrete steps help produce change.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change. The therapist asks open questions and highlights a person's strengths to build commitment to new behaviors. This approach is often helpful with addictions, lifestyle shifts, and getting through stages of change.
Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals, and preferences, and then try approaches that fit. That collaborative process may include blending methods and adjusting over time to find what helps most.
Online formats offer flexible ways to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a work break or low bandwidth days, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to follow a plan and practice new skills between sessions.
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