Carolyn Drakas, LMHC

Carolyn Drakas is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with 22 years of experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and work through relationship and parenting challenges. Carolyn aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She focuses on practical, everyday steps that make life feel more manageable.

In sessions she listens first and tailors the conversation to what you need. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and acceptance-focused work to help change unhelpful thinking and increase meaningful action. Attachment-based ideas inform how she talks about relationship patterns and how past connections affect current behavior.

Carolyn incorporates skills from dialectical behavior therapy when people need tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in your goals and preferences. Together you will build a plan that fits your pace and priorities.

Her additional focus includes concerns such as aging and geriatric issues, caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness and pain, grief, and sleep or eating problems. She also addresses deeper attachment and personality-related patterns like abandonment, avoidant or antisocial features, and codependency.

Carolyn welcomes people who want clear, straightforward help and who are ready to try new strategies. She supports clients through change with a calm, practical style and encourages small steps that lead to lasting progress.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and move toward what matters. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and situations that feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaching practical strategies to change them. It often helps with anxiety, sleep, and mood-related concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people make different choices in relationships and caregiving roles.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to match your goals and preferences. That choice happens together, and it can shift as needs change during therapy.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people join from different locations, which may help those caring for others or managing health concerns. Licensed professionals can use these approaches in remote sessions to teach skills, process emotions, and plan changes that transfer into everyday life.