Carrie Ross, LCSW

Carrie Ross is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years as a clinical social worker and a total of 25 years in social work. She focuses on practical, make-sense strategies to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address depression. She listens carefully and helps people figure out what feels doable for their life. Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered work to help change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas to set clear goals and take small steps toward them. Trauma-focused techniques are part of her work when past events are affecting daily life. She helps people who are struggling with grief, anger, relationship strain, isolation, and issues that come with aging or caregiving. Additional areas she addresses include adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome related challenges, eating and food-related issues, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people coping with disaster, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and feelings of guilt or shame. Sessions emphasize skills you can use between meetings: breathing and grounding practices, problem-solving steps, and ways to change patterns of thinking that lead to distress. The work is collaborative - she helps set goals and measures progress along the way. Carrie works from North Carolina and offers help in English. Her background as a social worker informs a practical, strength-focused style that aims to make therapy fit day-to-day life.

How specific approaches translate to online therapy

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps identify patterns of thinking that keep problems going and replaces them with more helpful thoughts and actions. Online sessions can use worksheets, thought records, and behavior experiments that are reviewed together during video calls or shared through messaging. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective so they feel heard and respected. That approach is useful online because conversations by video or phone can still build a trusting working relationship and guide the session at the client's pace. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT skills, client-centered listening, motivational interviewing, or trauma-focused techniques based on what feels most useful. Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face and use visual tools. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions, making it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.