Carol Gardner, LPC

Carol Gardner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 30 years of clinical experience supporting people through complex emotional challenges. She focuses on areas such as stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression, and also addresses related concerns like attachment and abandonment issues, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, communication problems, and mood disorders.

Carol offers a compassionate, faith-informed approach that respects each person’s individual beliefs and life story. She blends practical strategies with a deep interest in emotional healing, helping clients build resilience, reduce distress, and reconnect with a sense of purpose. Her practice emphasizes listening, collaboration, and steady encouragement as clients work through grief, relationship transitions, panic symptoms, or long-standing patterns rooted in attachment.

Clients meet a therapist who aims to create a safe space for self-exploration, learning healthier coping skills, and gaining clearer self-understanding. Carol’s background and long experience allow her to tailor care to the needs of each person, drawing on evidence-informed methods alongside a person-centered, empathetic stance to support meaningful change.

Approaches That Guide Online Therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and close relationships shape current patterns of relating. It helps people understand attachment needs, heal from abandonment or relational wounds, and build more secure connections, which can be useful for relationship struggles and trauma recovery.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, active listening, and the client’s own resources. The therapist offers a nonjudgmental presence that supports self-discovery, self-acceptance, and personal growth, making it helpful for depression, grief, and life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It offers practical tools to address anxiety, panic symptoms, mood disorders, and stress by identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new coping strategies.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carol works with each person to determine which methods best match their goals, challenges, and preferences, and she may combine elements from different approaches as needed.

Online therapy offers flexibility - sessions can take place via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which makes it easier to fit care into a busy life, maintain continuity during transitions, and access support from home or other convenient locations.