About Carol
Carol Cohn is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California who helps people facing relationship struggles, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She works with clients on intimacy issues, parenting concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, and career stress.
Background and approach
Carol also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction patterns, bipolar disorder, and LGBT-related challenges. With 25 years of experience, Carol focuses on practical, straightforward work in sessions.
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set small, achievable goals. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to emotions, behavior, and day-to-day routines.
Carol draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address obsessive or compulsive thoughts, process addictions, and relationship patterns. She helps people untangle family of origin issues, work through infidelity or divorce impacts, and cope with midlife and aging concerns.
Her approach includes pacing difficult topics and building new coping skills. People meet Carol by starting with a brief questionnaire and scheduling the best available session format.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences. Fees vary by location and are billed through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
In therapy she aims to be supportive while challenging unhelpful patterns. Carol encourages clients to use their existing strengths when trying new ways of relating and managing emotions.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, focused on practical change over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Carol uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to improve daily life. One approach helps people spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so they can manage depression, anxiety, or compulsive habits more effectively. Another approach concentrates on relationship patterns and communication, helping people improve intimacy, handle jealousy or infidelity impacts, and rebuild trust after hurt.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carol works with each person to identify goals, try different ways of working, and adjust methods based on what is most helpful. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques fit goals and comfort levels.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit during a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and written reflection easier. These options help people keep therapy steady when schedules are tight or when different formats suit different tasks.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English