About Carmen
Carmen Gomez Abreu is a Florida licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She brings nearly 30 years of experience and works with individuals seeking clearer thinking and steadier emotions. She uses straightforward conversation to help people name what feels hard and find small steps that fit their life.
Sessions focus on improving everyday coping skills, communication, and emotional regulation rather than quick fixes.
Background and approach
Carmen speaks English and Spanish, which lets her connect across cultural differences and meet clients where they are. Her background includes long experience with depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and relationship strain. She also supports people facing career pressures, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue.
Over time she has helped clients tackle issues like attention difficulties, bipolar mood concerns, and problems with self-esteem. Carmen draws on several practical approaches in sessions. She blends cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and attachment-based work to improve close relationships.
Dialectical skills and a client-centered stance guide how she meets people in the room. People who come to her usually want concrete tools and a supportive space to practice them. She encourages collaboration - setting goals together and adjusting plans as needs change.
To begin, someone selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules based on availability.
Therapeutic approaches online and what they look like
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to take values-based actions. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them with small behavior changes, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they relate and respond to others, which can ease relationship strain and improve intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She often combines techniques so sessions match a person's situation and preferences, and she checks in regularly to adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for longer check-ins and skill practice, phone can work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports short, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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