About Carolynn
Carolynn Metz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses a strengths-focused style to help people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, trauma, relationship strain, and depression. She works online and aims to make sessions feel warm and approachable. Conversations are straightforward and practical so people can take next steps between meetings.
With 25 years in mental health and substance use work, she draws on long experience supporting people through trauma and addiction.
Background and approach
That background informs how she notices patterns, safety concerns, and the ways past hurts affect current relationships. Many clients bring worries about abandonment, attachment, codependency, or emotion regulation, and she addresses those themes directly. Her methods include attachment-focused work, client-centered conversations, and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people understand thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Sessions blend listening with hands-on strategies that can be practiced outside of therapy. The approach is practical and paced to each person’s needs. She has worked across settings with people affected by depression, anxiety, co-occurring disorders, and trauma.
That experience includes supporting people who have faced domestic violence, human trafficking, and complicated grief. Her familiarity with addiction-related concerns helps when substance use is part of the picture. Clients choose therapy online using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging.
The subscription model is used for scheduling and can be canceled at any time. People looking to start complete a short questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current feelings and trust. It helps people who struggle with closeness, abandonment fears, or repeating relationship patterns by tracing how past attachment experiences show up now.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the conversation. The therapist listens without judgment, reflects what is said, and supports the person in finding their own solutions and strengths for dealing with life stressors.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers clear tools for spotting unhelpful thinking, testing beliefs, and building different behaviors to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which strategies to use and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay relevant.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction; phone works when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need more frequent brief touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English