About Carol
Carol Tallant is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and LGBT issues. She listens for what isn’t being said and supports people who feel unseen or afraid of rejection. Carol aims to help clients reduce intense emotional reactions and manage distressing memories or flashbacks.
She works in a direct and compassionate way. Sessions focus on understanding how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors.
Background and approach
Carol uses clear techniques to teach practical coping skills, improve communication, and rebuild a sense of self outside of painful memories. Over 15 years she has focused on survivors of sexual trauma and childhood abuse. That experience guides how she recognizes patterns like dissociation, shame, and hypervigilance.
She brings attention to attachment wounds, abandonment fears, and family-of-origin problems that often underlie current struggles. Her approach blends Client-Centered ideas with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies. She also draws on existential perspectives and hypnotherapy when appropriate to help with meaning, mood, and behavior change.
Carol holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices from Georgia. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for flexible ways to connect. The first steps are a short questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits each person’s needs.
Approaches for online healing and practical skills
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening without judgment and helping people feel understood. It’s useful when someone needs validation, greater self-awareness, and a safe space to speak about identity, shame, or relationship concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and mood disorders through skill practice and short exercises.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It helps when emotions feel overwhelming, when there are patterns of self-harm or intense reactivity, or when communication and boundaries need strengthening.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps find what feels most helpful for managing symptoms and improving daily life.
Online therapy here can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let conversations feel more personal. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, skills practice between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English