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Carole Boes

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Carole Boes, LCSW

Pennsylvania

LCSW - Relationships and parenting

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About

  • Trauma-focused work
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Client-Centered methods

About Carole

Carole Boes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Pennsylvania with 35 years of clinical experience. She helps adults who are facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, mood changes, and the stresses of parenting and family life. Her practice notes a focus on LGBT concerns, workplace stress, addictions, and coping with major life changes.

She draws on practical, conversational methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. Sessions tend to focus on building coping strategies, addressing grief, and sorting through relationship challenges. Carole pays attention to how life roles like caregiving or blended family arrangements affect day-to-day stress.

Her approach mixes client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. She also uses motivational interviewing and trauma-focused methods when they fit the concern. That combination aims to make sessions actionable and grounded in what the person wants to change.

Carole’s background includes decades of clinical practice with people dealing with sexual assault recovery, postpartum mood issues, and long-term mood disorders. She brings steady experience with anger, codependency, and first responder stress. This experience informs concrete strategies for managing symptoms and relationships.

People who come for help can expect straightforward conversation about goals and practical steps between sessions. The focus is on what can be tried next, and on noticing small changes that add up. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site’s process to match and schedule a first session.

How sessions work

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions

Carole commonly uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes listening to what matters most to the person and shaping sessions around their priorities. This approach helps adults clarify goals, express emotions, and decide what changes to try next.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT provides practical tools for anxiety, depression, mood shifts, and stress related to parenting or work. Trauma-focused therapy is used when past events are affecting day-to-day functioning; it focuses on processing memories and reducing symptom-triggered reactions.

Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps shape session focus and homework between meetings.

Confirm the specific online session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into a busy routine, allow shorter check-ins during the day, or avoid travel time. Therapists and licensed professionals can adapt tools and exercises so they work in remote sessions and match the client’s schedule and needs.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyAddictionsFamily conflictsParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemBipolar disorderDepressionCoaching

Additional focus areas

Blended family issuesCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationFirst responder issuesMood disordersPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Sexual assault and abuseWorkplace issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Motivational InterviewingSolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

35+ years

Listed in

Pennsylvania

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address related to family life?

She works with adults on parenting strain, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and family-related stress.

How does she approach therapy sessions?

Her style blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques to create practical steps clients can try between sessions.

How many years has she practiced?

She has 35 years of clinical experience working with adults on trauma, mood disorders, and relationship concerns.

Where is she licensed and based?

She is an LCSW licensed in Pennsylvania and practices from that state.

Does she offer sessions in other languages?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can she work with clients outside the United States?

International clients are not currently accepted.

How are sessions billed and what is the cost?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin a first session?

Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule an initial session.

Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.

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