Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
How Carmen works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Carmen
Carmen Gomez Abreu is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage strong emotions and life changes. She welcomes conversations about stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and relationship struggles in a calm, direct way. Carmen speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy easy to access and understand.
She uses straightforward talk and practical exercises to help people notice patterns that cause pain. Sessions often focus on skills for handling intense feelings, improving communication, and finding day-to-day strategies that work.
Background and approach
Carmen draws on approaches that teach new ways to respond to stress and conflict rather than only talking about problems. Her approach emphasizes collaboration. Carmen works with each person to set clear goals and pick techniques that fit their life.
She offers help for grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and other complex issues that can make daily life harder. Carmen’s background includes long clinical experience across many concerns such as career issues, self-esteem, intimacy-related matters, and parenting challenges. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, attachment issues, and communication or control problems.
In sessions she blends practical tools and empathetic listening. The focus is on building resilience, improving coping, and creating small but meaningful changes. People who want a direct, experienced clinician to help them navigate strong emotions often find her style grounding and useful.
What Carmen works with
Everything Carmen lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Carmen's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Carmen lists
- 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
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Carmen’s Approaches Work Online
Carmen often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then take small actions that match their values. This approach can help with anxiety, stress, and ongoing anger by shifting focus toward what matters most.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT breaks problems into manageable pieces and teaches practical skills for changing patterns that keep stress and depression going.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carmen will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that suit their needs and preferences. She adapts techniques as progress is made so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone is helpful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can support quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life gets disrupted.
Questions people ask about Carmen
What kinds of concerns does Carmen help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship issues, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, career concerns, parenting strain, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and related challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The approach is collaborative and practical, combining empathic listening with hands-on skills to manage intense emotions and improve communication.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Carmen has 30 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of emotional and life concerns in Florida.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, licensed in Florida and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to accommodate bilingual clients.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible ways to meet.
How are session costs handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.