About Carol
Carol Gross is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 25 years of experience to her practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, addiction, trauma, and related challenges. Her style is straightforward and practical, focused on helping people notice what matters and take steps toward change.
She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with cognitive and mindfulness tools. Sessions often include learning simple skills to manage strong feelings, practicing mindfulness to reduce automatic reactions, and identifying personal values to guide choices.
Background and approach
Carol likes to use concrete exercises such as the ACT Matrix to help sort priorities and reactions. Her background includes a long career studying behavior and systems. That experience shapes a problem-solving approach that still centers the person in front of her.
Clients can expect calm, direct guidance and space to name what feels hard right now. Carol helps people build coping behaviors for anxiety, sleep problems, anger, substance concerns, and life transitions. She also addresses issues like parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image, and relationship communication in individual work.
The emphasis is on practical steps that fit into everyday life. She works in Utah and conducts sessions in English. Carol aims to help people increase psychological flexibility so they can take meaningful action even when feelings are difficult.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and stress care
Carol often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values even when emotions are strong. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is another common tool she uses to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and develop clearer, more balanced ways of responding to stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. That means trying techniques, adjusting as needed, and combining mindfulness, cognitive exercises, and values work so it feels useful and doable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let you practice skills and get real-time feedback, phone sessions can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging work well for short updates, coaching, or moments when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain steady progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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