About Carole
Carole Cassidy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of experience helping people address stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plain and direct, and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Carole emphasizes each person's strengths and choices as the starting point for change.
Carole listens for what matters most and helps clients name the problems that feel overwhelming.
How Carole works
She uses everyday language to make emotions and patterns easier to understand. Sessions aim to turn insight into doable actions that reduce anxiety and build confidence. Her approach is collaborative.
She treats clients as the expert on their life while offering tools and perspectives that can shorten the time it takes to feel better. This includes working on attachment wounds, abandonment fears, communication problems, and issues that follow divorce or separation. Carole also helps people process post-traumatic stress, forgive themselves or others, and find a clearer sense of life purpose.
She supports people struggling with isolation and with developing greater self-love. The work often blends short-term skills with deeper reflection based on each person's needs. Clients meet with Carole from California via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She guides the next steps after a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling, so people can begin at a pace that fits their life.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Carole works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and improve how people relate to themselves and others. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and replacing them with more realistic ones to lower anxiety and lift mood; this helps with worry, low confidence, and stress. Another approach centers on understanding attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current fears and communication problems; this is useful for people who struggle with abandonment, intimacy, or repeating relationship conflicts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video lets people work face-to-face when schedules allow, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing connection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while keeping treatment consistent and focused.
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A practical next step
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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