About Carolyn
Carolyn Drakas helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. She also addresses sleep and eating concerns and works with self-esteem issues. Carolyn is a Florida LMHC with 22 years of professional experience.
She speaks English and accepts international clients. Carolyn uses straightforward conversations to learn what's most important to each person. She listens without judgment and adapts sessions to meet individual needs.
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings to feel steadier and more in control.
How Carolyn works
Her work draws on several approaches, including cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and acceptance strategies to tolerate difficult feelings. Attachment ideas are used to understand how past relationships affect current patterns. Dialectical behavior tools help with emotion regulation and coping skills.
Carolyn helps people facing complex issues such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and co-morbid conditions. She also offers support around communication, commitment, and blended family stress. Her background equips her to tailor a plan for people with varied life challenges.
Getting started is practical and straightforward. Carolyn collaborates with each person to set realistic goals and a manageable plan. She emphasizes small changes that add up over time and checks progress as therapy continues.
Carolyn lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Carolyn works with
The areas below are the ones Carolyn 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Carolyn’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps when anxiety, stress, or persistent worries block the things you value. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, sleep and eating problems, and managing stress. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns shape current ways of relating and coping, which can be helpful for relationship strain, communication problems, and commitment concerns.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Carolyn will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and pick methods that fit those needs. She checks in over time and adjusts the plan as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, phone can work when bandwidth or screen time is limited, and chat or messaging is handy for brief check-ins or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into work, travel, or caregiving routines and support consistent contact between meetings.
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