About Carrie
Carrie Ross is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years as a clinical social worker and a longer history in social work. She focuses on practical support for people facing anxiety, stress, depression, anger, grief, and relationship concerns. Her style is straightforward and grounded in helping people build coping skills and better manage strong feelings.
She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with clearer, more helpful thoughts.
Background and approach
Client-Centered Therapy offers a respectful, nonjudgmental space where a person sets the pace and goals. Motivational Interviewing is used to help people find and strengthen reasons for change. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows in on immediate goals and small steps that make a difference quickly.
Trauma-Focused Therapy supports work through past events that still cause distress. Across these methods Carrie helps people learn emotional regulation and concrete coping strategies. She draws on many years of experience working with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment difficulties, autism and Asperger Syndrome, caregiver stress, communication problems, and post-traumatic stress.
Sessions are offered in English and provided from North Carolina. Carrie aims to help people take practical steps toward feeling steadier and more in control, one session at a time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client's lead. In practice this means sessions focus on what matters most to the person, with the therapist reflecting concerns and helping set goals that feel doable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behavior. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it gives step-by-step tools to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress. That collaborative process helps identify whether CBT, solution-focused steps, trauma-focused work, or motivational interviewing best fits where you are now.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in more often and use messages for quick reflections or homework support. These options offer flexibility so therapy can match daily routines and practical constraints.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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