About Dorothy
Dorothy Carskadon brings 26 years of clinical experience as a licensed clinical social worker to her practice in Arizona. She grounds work in client-centered principles while integrating cognitive behavioral strategies and emotion-focused techniques to help clients understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact.
Background and approach
Dorothy describes herself as a resource-oriented counselor who offers practical materials such as worksheets, handouts, and links to support learning and skill-building. Her approach emphasizes emotional literacy and intentional living, encouraging people to notice strengths and build on what works in their lives.
Dorothy frames change through positive, actionable steps tailored to each persons concerns, whether related to stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, depression, addictions, grief, self-esteem, career transitions, or other life changes. She respects clients identities and offers affirming care for LGBT individuals while adapting methods to match individual goals and preferences.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each persons perspective and building a collaborative, respectful relationship; it helps people feel heard and supports self-directed growth. Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches practical skills to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns. Emotionally-focused therapy helps people notice and work with emotional patterns that affect relationships and personal decision-making, often aiming to increase emotional awareness and connection.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Dorothy works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they may try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress and priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to access care from different locations. These formats support ongoing work with worksheets, exercises, and conversational check-ins so clients can practice skills between sessions and maintain momentum toward their goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Illinois, Arizona
- Languages
- English