Carly Gelb

Carly Gelb is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on trauma-informed care and practical coping strategies. She speaks plainly and aims to help people find strength when they feel stuck. Carly has eight years of experience supporting people through things like depression, anxiety, addiction, and grief.

Her style centers on the person in front of her. Sessions are client-centered so the person sets the pace and goals. Carly uses tools such as guided meditation, journaling, worksheets, and creative exercises to make sessions concrete and usable between meetings.

Carly blends approaches to match what each person needs. She draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and motivational interviewing ideas also inform her work when helpful.

She helps people address a wide range of concerns including stress, relationships, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, career strain, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Carly also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, guilt, shame, and substance use concerns.

People who prefer a nonjudgmental, practical approach may find her style helpful. Carly aims to listen first, then build steps that fit a person’s daily life. To begin, she asks prospective clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online work

Trauma-Focused Therapy is focused on carefully addressing past hurts and the ways they affect daily life. In practice this can mean pacing conversations, building safety, and using grounding or processing techniques that help reduce overwhelm.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, emphasizes clarifying values and taking small actions that match those values. It helps with anxiety, low mood, and coping with big life changes by teaching practical ways to notice thoughts and choose actions that matter.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own perspective. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s lead, using empathy and reflection to help people make sense of their experiences.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carly will work with each person to see which methods fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. She often combines elements from different approaches so the work stays useful and realistic.

Confirm current session formats before booking, since formats were not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow use of worksheets, guided meditations, and journaling exercises between meetings. Phone or video sessions may also help when a shorter check-in is needed or when bandwidth is limited.