About Carol
Carol Holder is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist in North Carolina with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. Carol takes a respectful and compassionate approach and adapts conversations to each person's situation.
She centers sessions on the person in front of her, listening first to understand what matters most. Then she and the client work together to set practical goals and try techniques that fit daily life.
Background and approach
These sessions are straightforward and focused on what a client can do between meetings. Carol uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help identify unhelpful thinking and test better ways of coping. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach ways of managing intense emotions and improving regulation.
Motivational interviewing and a client-centered stance guide conversations about change and choice. People come to her for a range of concerns including trauma, grief, parenting strain, relationship stress, anger, attention challenges, bipolar mood management, and compassion fatigue. Her work emphasizes small, concrete steps that build over time.
She aims to make therapy feel like a practical collaboration rather than a lecture. Carol encourages anyone feeling stuck to reach out and explore whether working together would fit. The first contacts are used to clarify goals, try an initial plan, and decide on a rhythm of sessions that matches the client's life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring conversations to each person's needs. In practice this means sessions start with the client's priorities and progress at a pace they find comfortable. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors over time. It is useful for anxiety and depression because it gives concrete exercises and homework to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try methods that fit your goals, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist check in regularly to see which tools are working and where to change course.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask questions, or work through skills between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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