About Carolyn
Carolyn Faulkner is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience. She works with adults, teens, and seniors who are dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach aims to help people move toward clear goals and better day-to-day functioning.
Carolyn uses an interactive style in sessions. She draws on solution-focused methods to set small, achievable steps. She also uses cognitive behavioral and rational-emotive ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Narrative techniques are part of her work too, helping people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. Carolyn addresses co-occurring substance use, mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress alongside other concerns. She pays special attention to issues many women face and how those concerns affect daily life.
Her sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Carolyn helps people break larger problems into manageable actions. She supports clients in building skills they can use between appointments.
Outside of counseling she enjoys gardening, visiting outdoor food markets, attending church, and spending time with family. These interests inform a calm, grounded presence in her work and a focus on everyday strengths and routines.
Evidence-informed approaches for online counseling
Carolyn uses a few practical, evidence-based techniques in her work. Cognitive behavioral methods focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms and improve daily functioning. Solution-focused work centers on setting clear, short-term goals and taking small steps toward them, which helps people make quick, concrete progress. Narrative approaches help people reframe life stories and see different meanings in their experiences, which can be useful after trauma or during major life transitions.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Carolyn collaborates with each person to figure out what fits best based on their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time so sessions stay practical and relevant to what a person wants to change.
Confirm the available session formats before booking, as they are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people choose sessions that work with their energy levels, for example picking a phone conversation instead of a video call when that feels simpler. Talk with the therapist during the matching process to determine which options will work best for daily life and treatment goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English