About Carolyn
Carolyn Drakas is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, and relationship challenges. She also supports concerns around parenting, grief, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, and phobias. Carolyn approaches each person with respect and compassion and adapts her work to individual needs.
She uses plain conversation as the starting point. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small, practical steps a person can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Carolyn listens first, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals and a plan that feels realistic. Her practice draws on several therapeutic approaches, including acceptance and commitment methods, attachment-focused ideas, cognitive behavior strategies, and skills from dialectical behavior work. She picks techniques that match the concern and the person’s goals rather than using a one-size-fits-all method.
Carolyn has experience helping people cope with complex life issues such as caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family dynamics, and body image concerns. She also addresses deeper patterns like abandonment or avoidant tendencies when they affect relationships and daily life. People who work with her can expect a collaborative pace and clear explanations of options.
She encourages regular check-ins on progress and adjusts the plan as needed. The aim is steady, usable change rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and struggles that keep someone stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing thinking and behavior patterns that worsen mood and anxiety. It often includes specific exercises and short homework practice to build new skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carolyn will discuss your goals and preferences and try methods that fit your situation. She treats the choice as a collaboration and checks in regularly to adjust the plan based on what is helping you make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let you have a face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be a quicker way to check in or to have shorter, more frequent contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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