About Carolyn
Carolyn "Renae" Traywick uses a practical, person-focused style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and Nevada with 13 years of experience working in school and clinical settings. Carolyn keeps sessions straightforward and approachable so worried parents can quickly understand what to expect.
She has spent much of the last decade working with students and teenagers who have behavior challenges both inside and outside the classroom.
Background and approach
That background gives her experience with school-related stress, motivation problems, and social difficulties that affect home life. She also supports adults facing career setbacks, grief, compassion fatigue, and changes that come with life stages. Carolyn favors a client-centered approach that begins by listening and building trust.
She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Together these approaches guide clear goals and small, manageable changes in daily routines. In sessions she helps parents talk through parenting struggles, addresses intimacy and relationship concerns, and works on anger and self-esteem.
She also offers support for ADHD-related challenges, adoption and foster care issues, autism and intellectual disability considerations, and workplace or money stress when those affect daily functioning. Carolyn adapts her work to each person’s needs and goals. She encourages people to try small experiments between sessions and checks progress regularly.
Her way of working is calm, direct, and focused on what will help in everyday life.
How Carolyn blends client-centered care and CBT online
Carolyn uses client-centered therapy to begin most online conversations by listening closely and following each person's priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and makes it easier to set realistic goals for change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used alongside that listening work to identify patterns of thought and behavior and to try practical experiments that reduce anxiety or low mood.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will adjust the plan over time so the work fits the client’s needs and produces usable steps to try between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, reflections between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy going around school, work, and family commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Nevada
- Languages
- English