Carmen Gomez Abreu, LCSW

Carmen Gomez Abreu is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy practical and understandable. Many people come to her feeling overwhelmed by life changes or stuck in patterns that hurt their self-esteem or connections with others.

She uses straightforward talk and collaborative planning to build tools people can use between sessions. Carmen draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify unhelpful thoughts and ACT to clarify values and guide action. Attachment-based ideas often inform work on close relationships and intimacy concerns.

Carmen has supported clients through grief, trauma, career changes, parenting strain, and issues tied to identity and LGBT concerns. She also addresses anger, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her practice covers both everyday stressors and deeper life transitions.

Sessions mix listening with concrete skill-building. Clients can expect help setting realistic goals, trying new ways to respond, and tracking small changes over time. Carmen emphasizes collaboration and pacing that fits each person’s needs.

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. International clients may connect in English or Spanish. Carmen works from Florida and brings three decades of practical experience to each conversation.

CBT, ACT, and Attachment work online

Therapy with Carmen often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and change thinking patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. CBT focuses on practical steps and skills you can practice between sessions to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult feelings. ACT can be helpful for life transitions, stress, and long-term goals. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns affect close relationships now and helps people try new ways of relating to partners and loved ones.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen treats the choice of methods as a collaboration and will adjust techniques based on a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set aims, try methods in session, and review what helps most so plans evolve over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions and skill practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging can support quick updates or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules while keeping steady progress toward goals.