Carrie Zielinski, LCSW

Carrie Zielinski is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, and depression. She works from a strengths-based outlook and invites clients to use their own knowledge of their lives to guide change. Carrie keeps sessions straightforward and focused on practical steps people can try between meetings.

She draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered care. These methods shape conversations about values, unhelpful thought patterns, and small experiments to test new behaviors. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are woven in as useful tools when they fit a client’s goals.

Carrie has worked with people facing issues such as attachment and abandonment, communication and control problems, isolation and loneliness, and low self-esteem. She also addresses trauma and post-traumatic stress, pregnancy and childbirth concerns, money and financial stress, and women’s issues. Sessions look to build skills for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and returning to activities that matter.

Her tone in session is collaborative and direct. Clients set the pace while Carrie offers options to try and gentle accountability to support follow-through. She emphasizes small, sustainable changes over time rather than sudden fixes.

Therapy is offered in English from her Florida practice. To start, people use the site’s continue button on this profile, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the listed availability.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions feel heavy. It can be useful for anxiety, relationship struggles, and finding direction.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions include practical exercises to test unhelpful thinking and build new habits for mood and behavior change.

Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and preferences. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what’s important, and helps people identify their next workable steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carrie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying an idea, checking how it felt, and adjusting together rather than committing to a single path from the start.

The practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy life and keeping momentum between appointments. Because specific session formats were not listed in the biography, confirm current options before booking so you know how sessions will be delivered. Many people find remote sessions helpful for shorter check-ins, quieter surroundings, or when shifting schedules makes in-person visits difficult.