About Carlos
Dr. Carlos D. Ortiz is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 15 years of professional experience.
He holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and an LMHC credential, and he combines clinical training with life experience in his approach. He works with adults on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, and ADHD. He also supports people facing issues related to adoption and foster care, first responder challenges, and fatherhood concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. Dr. Ortiz favors straightforward, practical conversations.
He creates space for clients to talk honestly about what is hard and what they want to change. He aims to help people notice what matters to them and build small, usable steps toward those goals. Therapy sessions may draw on several approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and eye movement work for trauma.
He adapts methods to each person's needs rather than using a single fixed style. His background includes work with people from varied walks of life, and he brings personal perspectives as a veteran, a father, and someone with blue-collar roots. For those who prefer faith-informed care, he also offers pastoral counseling grounded in the Bible.
If you want a direct, experienced clinician who speaks English or Spanish, he may be a good fit.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, meaningful actions toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to shift them, which often helps with depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that works with troubling memories and the feelings tied to them to reduce their intensity and the distress they cause.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when a lower bandwidth connection is needed or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging support brief updates, ongoing check-ins, or a way to fit therapy into a busy day. These options let people access consistent, regular work without traveling to appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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