About Dorothy
Dorothy Carskadon is an LCSW with 26 years of clinical experience. She practices from Arizona and brings a resourceful, practical style to sessions. Dorothy focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship concerns.
She offers materials and tools clients can use between meetings to apply what they learn. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to help people notice links between thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when relationships and strong emotions are part of the problem. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are added to build coping skills and set clear, short-term goals. Dorothy often provides handouts, worksheets, articles, and videos that relate to a person's goals.
Sessions emphasize practical steps - small changes, repeated - rather than long lectures. She frames work around values and meaning for people looking to move forward after loss, addiction, or life transitions. Her background includes many years supporting people through trauma and chronic illness, and she names forgiveness, self-esteem, and codependency among areas she addresses.
Dorothy also notes experience with grief, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and issues tied to family dynamics. She identifies as an LGBTQ+ counselor and integrates clients' beliefs and values when relevant. People who prefer clear tools, short exercises, and conversational sessions may find her style helpful.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs and offers multiple session formats to fit different schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following each person's concerns. Online sessions use that same conversational style to set goals and decide what matters most in therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then try small experiments to change them; online work often includes worksheets and behavior plans shared between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dorothy will collaborate with clients to choose or combine methods based on their goals and preferences. That might mean more mindfulness exercises for anxiety, or shorter solution-focused steps for a life transition; the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, homework review, or a low-effort way to stay connected between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent work into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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