Carol Loose, LCSW

Carol Loose is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Kentucky with 18 years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, work through relationship and family concerns, and address parenting challenges. Her practice also focuses on adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and related concerns such as guilt, shame, and midlife questions.

Carol uses straightforward conversations to identify what is getting in the way of daily functioning. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. She also uses Client-Centered and Solution-Focused methods for practical problem solving and DBT-informed skills for emotion regulation when needed.

Sessions tend to focus on concrete strategies you can try between meetings. That might include small behavior changes, communication practices for family situations, or short skills work for managing anxiety. Carol works with clients to set clear, realistic goals and track progress over time.

Her background includes nearly two decades of direct clinical work in Kentucky. That experience has shaped a pragmatic approach that concentrates on daily life demands - work, parenting, caregiving, and relationships.

People who contact Carol typically want immediate, usable tools and a straightforward plan for moving forward. To begin, she asks clients to share current concerns and what they hope to change so sessions can be focused from the first meeting.

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