About Carolyn
Rev. Carolyn Simon is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses straightforward conversation to help clients name problems and find practical ways forward.
Her approach aims to make emotional concerns easier to understand and act on. She centers sessions on the client’s needs and works in a calm, compassionate manner. Sessions focus on identifying patterns, building coping skills, and setting small, achievable goals.
Background and approach
She emphasizes respect, listening, and teamwork to help people feel more confident in daily life. Carolyn blends several approaches to match each person’s situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and work with strong feelings in relationships and within themselves. She also offers client-centered listening where the conversation follows what matters most to the person in the room. For trauma-related concerns she may incorporate EMDR techniques as appropriate to reduce the intensity of distressing memories.
Hypnotherapy and mindfulness tools are also available when they fit a person’s goals. Carolyn works with a wide range of life issues, including ADHD, relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, and workplace challenges. She also supports people facing grief, caregiving burden, aging concerns, and recovery from abuse.
Sessions are offered from Michigan and Carolyn speaks Estonian in addition to English. She invites people to take a small first step toward change and offers practical guidance along the way.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Carolyn often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that cause anxiety and to practice different responses. CBT focuses on clear goals and exercises people can use between sessions to reduce worry and improve routine. She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and work with strong emotions, especially when relationships or connection are a central concern. EFT creates space to name feelings and look at patterns that keep people stuck.Client-Centered Therapy is a core part of her work online as well. That approach means the conversation follows what matters most to the client, and the therapist offers gentle guidance rather than pushing a fixed plan. Together the person and therapist decide which methods to try and adjust them over time so the work fits current needs and goals.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are useful for in-depth work and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support short check-ins or ongoing coaching in between longer sessions. This range of formats helps people fit therapy into busy lives and keeps momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- Estonian
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