LCSW, 24 years of experience
Hello everyone, my name is Carolina Gonzalez. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 24 years of experience providing compassionate, evidence-based care to individuals, including adolescents, couples and families. I support clients through challenges such as depression, anxiety, life transitions, trauma, relationship concerns and parenting. My approach is collaborative and tailored to each person's needs with methods such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), mindfulness techniques, and strength-based interventions. I strive to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where clients feel heard, respected and empowered to make meaningful changes in their lives.
In our first session together, we'll start with brief introductions, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
I am in love with my profession and very much enjoy every single part of psychotherapy. I see psychotherapy as an art and employ my every single empathic and compassionate bone to help my clients. I will listen and validate my client, but, at the same time, I will be confrontational and empowering. My personal and therapeutic qualities have been very successful with various populations and age groups.
I love working with adolescents/adults/couples/parents that are eager to improve, but don't yet have the tools, awareness and knowledge of how to do it.
Teaching clients about how thoughts are connected to feelings, and how thoughts can often be maladaptive, or based on wrong assumptions.