About Carolyn
Carolyn Drakas is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 22 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, struggling with addictions, or facing relationship and parenting challenges. Her approach is respectful and compassionate.
She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life feel more manageable. Carolyn shapes conversations to each person’s needs. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented.
She listens first, then works with clients to build a realistic plan for coping and change.
Background and approach
That plan can include new habits, different ways to think about problems, and skills for handling strong emotions. Her work draws on several evidence-informed approaches. Carolyn uses cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors.
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when emotions feel intense. Attachment-based and client-centered elements guide how she relates to clients in session. Over two decades she has supported people through grief, sleep and eating concerns, low self-esteem, and chronic health or caregiving stress.
She also assists with communication and commitment issues and with the fallout from abandonment or blended family dynamics. Carolyn aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first visit. Sessions can be adapted to different formats and goals.
She helps clients set clear, achievable steps and checks progress along the way. The focus is on practical change and steady support as people work toward a calmer, more stable life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Carolyn commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which can help with anxiety, stress, and sleep problems. Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches people to notice difficult feelings, choose actions that match their values, and build a life that matters despite discomfort.She treats finding the right method as a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That makes it easier to pick the approaches that fit a person’s needs and preferences over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy sessions and for working through skills where visual cues help. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins, brief coaching, and steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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