About Carlithea
Carlithea Farrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strain. She works in a straightforward, compassionate way and aims to make therapy feel practical and understandable.
Carlithea draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused work. Sessions often center on identifying patterns that cause distress and practicing small, manageable steps to change them.
Background and approach
She emphasizes treating each person with respect and listening first to understand their priorities. <brHer background includes experience across schools, government agencies, psychiatric settings, and independent practice. That range shaped her comfort with issues like trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and workplace stress. She also has experience with adoption and foster care concerns and blended family dynamics.
Carlithea aims to partner with clients to set clear goals and practical actions. She favors simple tools people can use between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve communication. Progress is measured in achievable steps rather than quick fixes.
People who come to her can expect direct, warm support and a focus on what will help day to day. She encourages questions and works collaboratively to tailor strategies to each person's life. If someone wants help with mood, relationships, or coping with major life changes she offers steady guidance and practical skills.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small committed steps toward those values while learning to ride out difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep anxiety and low mood going. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest strategies to try. Together they adjust methods over time so the plan fits the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make work on anxiety and relationships more flexible. Video is useful for full discussions and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging support brief updates, coping check-ins, and follow-up between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping a steady path toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New Jersey, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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