About Carolyn
Carolyn Serie is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Minnesota with 15 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and parenting challenges. Carolyn aims to make the first step toward therapy less daunting by offering calm, steady support.
She creates a welcoming atmosphere where clients can talk honestly about their thoughts and feelings. Sessions are a place to sort through difficult emotions without judgment.
How Carolyn works
Carolyn uses practical conversations to identify what feels most urgent and what can change over time. Her work includes attention to relationships, intimacy-related concerns, and self-esteem. She also helps people struggling with anger, depression, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include caregiver strain, codependency, domestic violence, fertility worries, and issues common to young adults and women. Carolyn draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. That means she uses approaches with research backing, and she tailors them to each person's needs.
The goal is to build skills that make daily life easier and more manageable. People who come to Carolyn can expect clear, practical steps and a collaborative tone. She supports clients through grief, end-of-life caregiving concerns, first responder stress, and forgiveness work.
Her style is steady, respectful, and focused on what will help in day-to-day life.
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.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Carolyn uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn tools to manage strong emotions and reduce anxiety by practicing simple, actionable strategies in everyday situations. Another approach centers on processing traumatic events and their emotional impact so symptoms feel less overwhelming and coping becomes more reliable.Finding the right method is a collaborative process. Carolyn will work with each person to decide which approach fits their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques based on what is most helpful, so clients take an active role in shaping their therapy plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Sessions can be done by video calls for face-to-face conversation, by phone if bandwidth or camera use is limited, or through live chat and text messaging for shorter check-ins and ongoing support. These options help therapy fit into busy schedules, allow frequent touchpoints between longer sessions, and make it easier to access care from different locations.
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