Welcome! I’m Carolyn.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 9 years of experience providing individual psychotherapy. I have my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Trinity College and a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University. After graduation, I pursued work as an individual, group, and family therapist at a community mental health clinic in Queens, New York. After a couple of years, I transferred my practice to The 5th Avenue Counseling Center in Manhattan and Fleurish Psychotherapy in Atlanta, where I provided insight-oriented talk therapy for individuals 18+. I now own my own practice and am currently licensed in Connecticut, Georgia and New York State.

I am passionate about furthering my studies. I frequently attend trainings and regularly participate in group supervision. I have completed the one year certificate program in psychoanalytic studies called Clinical Journeys at the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center in New York City and am currently enrolled in year two of the program. I am also a certified Level 1 and Level 2 Complex Trauma Treatment Provider (CTTP2), and a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP).

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Specialties & Therapeutic Approach

As a generalist, I have experience with a wide variety of issues and am able to treat most concerns that people bring to therapy. However, my particular areas of interest include:

  • Depression and Anxiety

  • Relationship issues (difficulty maintaining friendships; strained or estranged familial relationships; infidelity/affair recovery)

  • Life transitions (graduate school; divorce)

  • Unresolved childhood issues/trauma

My approach to therapy is insight-oriented and integrative. I pull from psychodynamic and relational theories to intentionally join my clients in their journeys to self-awareness and growth. I believe that the quality of our past and present relationships, including the therapeutic one, greatly impacts our emotional well-being. I come with the awareness that I too influence the dynamic between us and use our relationship as a therapeutic tool in itself.

I find value in examining how family history, attachment style, and past life experiences are impacting the current problems. In addition, I tailor to each individual client by incorporating other modalities including mindfulness, CBT, and somatic resourcing. My eclectic style is always accompanied by empathy, authenticity, and non-judgement.

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“Success as a therapist is not found in doing something for the client, but rather in being something for the client.”

— Ili Rivera Walter