About Carol
Carol Mendoza is a Licensed Professional Counselor based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, and issues like addictions and ADHD. Carol aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable and straightforward.
Her approach is practical and goal-oriented. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on Solution-Focused Therapy to identify small, achievable steps that move people toward their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Carol works with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem struggles, and a range of life changes such as career upheaval or midlife transitions. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue and the special stresses some people face around sexual behavior and relationships.
Her background includes work in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient mental health settings, where she helped people with mood disorders, panic attacks, and seasonal affective disorder. That varied experience informs a flexible style that balances skill-building with immediate problem solving. Outside work she enjoys outdoor activities like biking, camping, and fishing with her husband and two dogs.
She brings a respectful, empathetic presence to sessions and helps people find practical ways to feel steadier and more in control.
Using CBT and Solution-Focused Work Online
Carol often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like anxiety, panic, or depression. It teaches practical skills such as breaking problems into smaller steps and changing actions that keep problems going.She also uses Solution-Focused Therapy to find quick, concrete steps that move a person toward their goals. This approach highlights strengths and past successes and builds short-term plans that feel achievable for day-to-day life.
Choosing the best approach is a team process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide whether to focus on skills training, short-term solutions, or a mix of both, and adjust as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow flexible, on-the-go contact and quick touchpoints between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English