Carlithea Farrington

Carlithea Farrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and career concerns. She approaches clients with warmth and directness. Her style is personable and grounded, aiming to make therapy practical and doable for everyday life.

She draws on 11 years of clinical practice as an LCSW and additional experience as a social worker and life coach. That background includes work in schools, government agencies, psychiatric settings, and private practice. Those roles shaped a flexible approach to different kinds of problems and life stages.

In sessions she focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her. She uses a mix of methods such as cognitive behavioral strategies, acceptance-oriented techniques, attachment ideas, and client-centered listening. Sessions often include tools for managing mood, stress, and overwhelming thoughts, and time to talk through relationship and family conflicts.

Carlithea also works with people dealing with trauma, addiction, grief, parenting strain, and workplace pressures. She offers support around adoption and foster care challenges, blended family issues, caregiving stress, and difficult life transitions like separation or infidelity.

Her goal is to partner with each person to set clear, realistic goals and to find steps that fit day-to-day life. She encourages people to name small changes that add up. If someone wants to begin, she listens first and then shapes a plan that fits their situation.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, even when difficult thoughts are present. It can help with anxiety, depression, career decisions, and life purpose work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical ways to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors that reduce symptoms and improve functioning. CBT is commonly used for stress, mood problems, social anxiety, and workplace issues. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships and early bonds influence current patterns; it can help people understand repeated conflicts, intimacy struggles, and family dynamics.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review your needs, goals, and preferences and recommend methods that fit. This is a collaborative process and the plan can change as progress is made or priorities shift.

Confirm the session formats available before booking, as current options are listed on the therapist's profile. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so therapy fits around work and family life. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, worksheets, and skills coaching to remote sessions so people can practice between meetings and track small changes over time.