About Carly
Carly Anne Lockowitz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who practices with a calm, direct style. She focuses on helping adults manage severe mood shifts, depression, anxiety, and trauma. Sessions aim to build practical skills and steady routines that make daily life easier.
Carly emphasizes Dialectical Behavior Therapy, using DBT skills like interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness. She brings a trauma-informed perspective to conversations about past harm and ongoing symptoms.
How Carly works
The work is collaborative and grounded in real-world skills instead of abstract theories. Clients can expect a therapist who prioritizes compassion and authenticity. Carly aims to identify strengths and use them as the basis for change.
She encourages straightforward practice between sessions so skills translate into everyday situations. Her approach also addresses relationship struggles, self-esteem, feelings of emptiness, and intrusive thoughts. Carly works with people coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and the fallout from disasters.
She supports those facing impulsivity, isolation, or complex grief and shame. With nine years of clinical experience, Carly draws on a range of practical tools while keeping conversations clear and focused. She works in Pennsylvania and provides therapy in English.
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What Carly works with
The areas below are the ones Carly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How DBT and Mindfulness Translate to Online Therapy
DBT focuses on teaching concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. In sessions this often looks like practicing specific techniques, learning step-by-step strategies for high-intensity moments, and planning small behavior changes to try between meetings.Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple attention practices. This approach helps with anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and grounding after trauma by training steady attention and gentle self-observation rather than analyzing every feeling.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful. Clients and the therapist decide together which skills and methods to prioritize as work proceeds.
Confirm the current session options before booking to learn which formats are offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, reduce travel time, and support consistent practice between sessions. It also makes short check-ins and skill reviews simpler on days when a longer visit is hard to arrange.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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