Carla earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Cumberland College with a graduate degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of Kentucky. She now works as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) providing Psychotherapy to adults 18 and older (oldest client served 104). Carla’s healthcare career spans more than 23 years, including extensive experience with Grief and Bereavement Counseling, with over two decades spent helping individuals and their families challenged by advanced disease management issues that culminated in end-of-life care. By offering compassionate continuity of care, she finds positive outcomes happen through the provision of maintenance therapy.

MSW, LCSW

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Certified in Animal Assisted Therapy (specifically with rabbits and dogs)

Carla provides individual, couples and family therapy care to adults (18 and older). Carla finds both challenges and positive outcomes in treating clients for Anxiety Disorders, Depression and other Mood Disorders, Grief and Bereavement, Chronic Illness, Adjustment Disorders and Life transitions, Relationship issues, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Stress management, and Women’s issues. She is highly regarded by women seeking depression therapists for pregnancy.

Carla uses an eclectic approach to therapy with an emphasis on Dialectical Behavior Therapy. She promotes the importance of learning ways to utilize Mindfulness, understand Emotion Dysregulation so as to learn strategies to emotionally regulate, build Distress Tolerance skills, and improve Interpersonal Effectiveness to address mental health difficulties. She gets personal and professional satisfaction through teaching tips and tricks to help others become emotionally intelligent and grow into their best selves. Carla encourages maintenance therapy for self-care and to stay abreast of interventions that support emotional well being.

Carla, a native of Michigan, has been with her husband for 32 years and has 4 daughters, 2 Cocker Spaniels, and a lop-eared rabbit. She is a dedicated cross-fitter and enjoys running. Carla also likes sitting down to mindfully do adult coloring, paint by numbers, and complete jigsaw puzzles. She loves animals and promotes a good work-life balance by enjoying time outdoors planting flowers or mowing her yard, exercising, and being creative.