About Carleen
Carleen Gates is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She writes plainly and speaks directly when needed. Her manner is warm and encouraging, and she treats each person with respect and dignity.
Carleen has about 10 years of experience in the mental health field. She has worked in multiple settings including individual and group therapy, school-based counseling, in-home work, case management, and telehealth.
Background and approach
That range gives her a practical sense of what helps day-to-day. Her style centers on the client. She draws from client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes.
She also uses acceptance and commitment-informed ideas and some psychodynamic thinking to look at deeper feelings and values. Sessions are straightforward and candid. Carleen combines encouragement with honest feedback so people can move toward clearer decisions and healthier routines.
She pays attention to emotional experience and everyday challenges like money stress, guilt, and family problems. Many people seek her help around life purpose, forgiveness, self-love, and women’s issues. She aims to make therapy practical so lessons from a session can be used the same week.
If someone prefers online formats, she supports phone, video, chat, and text-based work to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small committed steps toward those values. It helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. Both approaches are useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try techniques together to see what fits. Over the first few sessions she will check in and adjust methods so the work feels relevant and doable for you.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you work face-to-face from different locations and are helpful for more in-depth sessions. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or people who prefer writing their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a real-life schedule while still using ACT and CBT tools in everyday moments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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