About Carolyn
Dr. Carolyn Greenleaf is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with four decades of experience in Texas. She has worked as a psychotherapist and crisis interventionist since 1979.
Her practice focuses on clear, direct care for people facing stress and anxiety as well as many other struggles. She sees people dealing with depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and major life changes. Relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem are also part of her work.
Background and approach
She also addresses compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues that affect veterans and first responders. Her style is interactive and straightforward. She leans on client-centered methods to build a trusting working relationship.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify and change unhelpful thinking and coping habits. Sessions often include practical, down-to-earth talk and problem-solving. She may use solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events continue to cause distress.
Humor sometimes appears in sessions to ease difficult conversations. People who prefer a direct therapist who listens and offers concrete tools may find this approach helpful. She brings long experience and a consistent, calm presence to each session.
Her work is grounded in ordinary language and real-life problem solving.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful working relationship. The therapist reflects concerns and priorities back to the client and helps people clarify their goals and values, which can ease anxiety and guide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online sessions use conversation and exercises to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new coping behaviors for stress, anxiety, and depression.
The therapist treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss goals and preferences and help decide whether a client-centered tone, CBT techniques, trauma-focused work, or a mix makes the most sense for the situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people choose what fits their routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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