Michael Carroll, Licensed Master Social Worker-Clinical

Treatment with me tends to be more open-ended, as we try to understand your mind. I will ask you to start talking wherever feels comfortable, and I will make observations, ask questions, or just listen. The idea is for us to help you put words to your feelings. I want to hear anything and everything that is on your mind. Talking about hard things gives them less weight. You do not have to carry around emotional conflicts. They can be transformed. Our work together will collaborative. I will encourage you to talk about what comes to mind while we are in session. Then I will make interpretations or clarify. In this way, we are trying to understand what is happening for you on a more in-depth level. The idea is that resolving conflicts that are less conscious, so they do not have to keep one in a painful or agitated state. I will sometimes encourage more frequent sessions when I believe they would be useful. I think of it similarly to learning an instrument: the more practice, the better. I have a number of years of experience, and I have worked with people from all backgrounds. Please feel free to send a message or call. You will be directly connected to me.

I am in training to become a psychoanalyst. I feel very passionate about this work and am always actively learning and growing. I feel strongly about always learning.