About Carlos
Carlos Camarena is a licensed social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other life disruptions. He uses straightforward conversation and steady support to help people who are worn down by worry or life changes. Carlos emphasizes treating people with respect and listening before offering ideas.
He began working in 1980 as a case manager helping people with severe physical disabilities and later earned a Master of Social Work in 1991.
Background and approach
Carlos then worked in a county mental health program supporting people with severe mental health issues, including those who had experienced homelessness. Those years gave him broad experience with depression, PTSD, anxiety, and thought disorders. Carlos brings a practical, problem-focused style to sessions.
He favors Client-Centered approaches and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused methods to create clear steps clients can try between meetings. He also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy when past harm is central to a person’s concerns. In a session Carlos listens first and then helps people identify small, doable changes.
He explains ideas plainly and helps clients practice skills to sleep better, manage panic, handle relationship strain, or reduce substance use. Progress is measured in concrete changes rather than jargon. People who choose Carlos can expect calm guidance aimed at practical goals.
He focuses on building coping skills, improving communication, and lowering day-to-day distress. His approach is steady, respectful, and rooted in decades of hands-on work in community mental health.
Approaches and Online Care That Focus on Practical Change
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the work by prioritizing listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals; it helps people feel heard and decide what change matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors feed anxiety or low mood and teaches concrete skills to shift those patterns. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, realistic steps and on what’s already working, helping people set short-term goals and build momentum toward them.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carlos will listen to your needs and try different methods until you both find a good fit, adjusting plans based on your goals, preferences, and what helps in practical life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video lets you have more of a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, live chat and text can be useful for quick check-ins or shorter communications, and all formats let you connect from wherever you are. These options increase flexibility and can help keep therapy consistent even when life gets busy.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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