About Carmen
Carmen Gomez Abreu is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for busy lives. She focuses on real-life problems such as workplace stress, parenting strain, grief, trauma, and challenges with self-esteem.
She also helps people dealing with ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related concerns. Carmen frames her work around what each person needs in the moment rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions often involve clear, manageable tools to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. She blends evidence-informed techniques with attention to how attachment and life history shape current struggles.
Carmen brings decades of clinical experience to conversations about coping with change, managing mood swings, and repairing communication patterns. She pays attention to cultural context and life transitions, and she offers support in Spanish when that helps people feel understood. People who choose Carmen can expect practical strategies, collaborative planning, and a focus on small steps that lead to steady progress.
Her Florida-based license is FL LCSW and her background includes long-term work with adults facing complex emotional and relational issues.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then move toward valued actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes by focusing on values and small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going and gives straightforward exercises to practice between sessions. That approach often helps with anxiety, phobias, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and communication, and it supports people working to improve trust and emotional closeness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and try different strategies when needed. Together they will choose techniques that match the person's needs, whether that means skill-building from CBT, values work from ACT, or exploring relational patterns from attachment work.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for on-the-go support, ongoing encouragement, and quick skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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