About Carol
Dr. Carol Schwartz is a Michigan psychologist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, phobias, depression, and parenting challenges. She brings 33 years of experience to sessions and uses clear, practical steps to address day-to-day problems.
Her style is straightforward and down-to-earth. She focuses on what a person needs now and breaks problems into small, manageable pieces. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented so people leave with tools they can use right away.
Background and approach
Dr. Schwartz uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which connects thoughts, feelings, and actions. That approach often helps with anxiety, panic, phobias, and mood concerns by teaching concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress.
She has worked with people at many stages of life and with a wide range of concerns including addiction, sleep problems, anger, ADHD, and coping with life changes. Her background includes work with mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive concerns, postpartum depression, and issues that arise in midlife.
Clients can expect clear explanations, practical homework between sessions, and step-by-step plans to test new ways of coping. Dr. Schwartz aims to make therapy understandable and useful so people can notice small improvements quickly.
Her practice is based in Michigan and sessions are conducted in English. People who prefer online or phone formats can work with her through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
CBT and practical therapy options online
Dr. Schwartz uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT involves learning simple skills, trying small experiments, and practicing new responses to anxiety, phobias, panic, and depression.The therapist treats the choice of approach as a shared decision. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked in the past, and then tailor steps to fit each person's needs. This collaborative planning helps make sure the techniques are useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules. Video helps with face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text allow shorter, more frequent messages and can help track homework or work through concerns between longer sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity when travel or relocation happens, and try different formats to see what feels most effective.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coaching
- Depression
- Family problems
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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