About Carla
Carla Jones is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and other life disruptions. Her approach is practical and direct, aimed at giving straightforward tools people can use between sessions.
Carla uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also draws on solution-focused work to set clear, short-term goals and build steps toward them.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs, so therapy is not the same for everyone. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Virginia LCSW credential. She has run her own practice since 2008 and has worked with a wide range of concerns, including trauma, grief, parenting stress, relationship strain, bipolar and sleep problems.
That experience informs a flexible style that balances skill teaching with problem-solving. Carla aims to help people manage emotions, reduce distressing symptoms, and move toward concrete changes. She tailors interventions to daily life and offers coaching around careers, self-esteem, and coping with change.
The focus is on practical steps you can try between sessions. If you want a therapist who emphasizes clear goals and usable strategies, Carla offers a steady, experienced approach grounded in common-sense techniques.
How CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Carla uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. In online sessions she might teach simple exercises to try between meetings, like tracking thoughts or practicing a different response to stress. Solution-focused work zeroes in on small, useful goals and the steps that move someone forward, which fits well into brief online check-ins.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about what matters to them and pick strategies that match their goals and daily life. This is a collaborative effort where methods are adjusted as progress and needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and fewer barriers to meeting. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins or when writing things out helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel routines while keeping the focus on skill-building and problem solving.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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