About Cara
Cara Greene is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. She focuses on creating a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk at a pace that feels safe. Cara aims to help people feel less stuck and more able to handle everyday challenges.
Cara trained in social work at Adelphi University after studying psychology at Connecticut College, and she completed post-graduate work at the Center of Modern Psychoanalysis.
Background and approach
She has worked in independent practice and community mental health settings and has run therapy programs as a social work director. She also taught clinical training, supervision, diagnosis, and treatment in graduate programs.
Her experience covers a wide range of concerns, including relationship and family stress, parenting and fatherhood issues, caregiving and chronic illness, aging and geriatric concerns, and career or vocational difficulties. She has helped people cope with trauma-related stress, divorce and separation, and complicated grief. Her background includes work with mood and personality disorders as well as anxiety and social anxiety.
Cara uses psychodynamic therapy as a foundation and adapts her approach to each person’s needs. She values empathy and close listening and blends longer-term reflection with practical steps to manage symptoms. In 2020 she led webinars on stress related to the COVID pandemic and offered strategies to reduce anxiety.
Sessions are offered in several remote formats to fit busy lives. Cara connects by video, phone, live chat, or messaging and usually responds to messages within about a day. She encourages a collaborative process to find the right pace and goals for each person.
How psychodynamic work fits with online therapy
Cara uses psychodynamic therapy to help people understand recurring patterns in relationships and feelings. That approach focuses on how past experiences shape present behavior and can be useful for anxiety, relationship struggles, and long-standing mood concerns.She pairs that reflective work with practical coping strategies when needed. This means sessions can include talking through current problems, noticing repeated themes, and trying small changes between meetings to reduce stress and build healthier habits. The therapist and client decide together which mix of reflection and practical tools will best meet the client's goals.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls support a conversational, face-to-face feel that helps with deeper psychodynamic work. Phone sessions work well for people who need a lower-bandwidth option or prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter exchange fits a schedule better.
Cara will work collaboratively to choose the format that fits each person's needs, goals, and daily routine, adjusting over time as therapy progresses.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Nevada, New York
- Languages
- English
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