Carolyn Drakas, LMHC
Florida · 22 years in practice
Carolyn Drakas is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, grief, and parenting challenges.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH7948 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1144532417 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 22
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Carolyn
Carolyn Drakas is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 22 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strains, grief, and parenting challenges. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that can fit into everyday life. Conversations are respectful and direct, aimed at easing immediate concerns and building lasting skills.
She adapts her approach to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Sessions mix talk with hands-on strategies drawn from evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral work and acceptance-based practices. The therapist pays attention to patterns in relationships and family systems when those connections affect wellbeing. Carolyn emphasizes clear goals and small experiments clients can try between sessions.
She helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and address addictive patterns. Parents can expect concrete tools for managing stress and navigating parenting pressures. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, focusing on what the client wants to change.
She listens for attachment wounds and communication patterns that keep problems repeating, then helps people practice different ways of relating. Progress is tracked in simple, measurable steps. Over two decades in practice, Carolyn has worked with a wide range of concerns including body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and grief.
She brings practical problem-solving alongside attention to relationships and emotional patterns. If someone is ready to make a change, she supports them through each step.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Carolyn lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Carolyn names
- Systemic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Carolyn uses approaches that translate well to remote work and practical daily life. Systemic therapy looks at how patterns between people affect mood and behavior and helps identify small shifts that change those patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches how to accept difficult feelings while focusing on chosen values and meaningful actions. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to early relationship patterns and helps people develop more supported ways of connecting with others.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide whether to focus on relationship patterns, acceptance and values, or changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and role practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, and other commitments.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, grief, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, and parenting challenges.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental and focuses on clear goals. Conversations are practical and geared toward small, testable changes.
How much experience does she have?
She has 22 years of professional work experience as a mental health counselor.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed mental health counselor, FL LMHC, and practices from Florida.
Which languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats does she use?
She works with clients by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
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