Consuelo Gardner

Consuelo Gardner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in North Carolina who focuses on helping people cope with life changes and everyday stressors. She draws on five years of clinical experience to support adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting challenges. Her manner is warm and inviting, and she centers the conversation on each person's goals. Consuelo uses client-centered principles to build a partnership with each person. That means she listens first, and works from the concerns the person brings. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior, and offers practical coping strategies to try between sessions. Motivational Interviewing is part of her work when someone wants to shift habits or follow through on personal goals. Solution-Focused Therapy is used to set small, achievable steps and track progress. Together these approaches aim to make therapy concrete and action-oriented rather than only reflective. People come to Consuelo for common worries like social anxiety, compassion fatigue, bipolar mood challenges, trauma and abuse recovery, and postpartum-related anxiety or depression. She helps with self-esteem issues and the stress of major life transitions. Her style is supportive and collaborative. She helps people set clear goals, test new coping tools, and adjust plans as needed. To begin, readers are encouraged to use the site’s Start Therapy process to complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How her approaches shape online therapy

Consuelo often draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and building a trusting partnership so clients feel heard and can set their own goals. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive space to talk through changes and stress.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which connects thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and shifting the daily habits that get in the way of feeling better.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she may blend techniques over time based on what helps most.

If you prefer online options, confirm available session formats before booking since the biography does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. Talk with her during the matching process about how you want therapy to fit into your routine and which approaches you would like to try.