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Relational therapy for modern relationships.

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Let’s take a beat.

For high achievers and perfectionists, it can feel more comfortable to analyze your emotions from a distance. But healing comes from slowing down and learning to feel — not just think — through what’s happening.

Allowing yourself to feel your deeper emotions can be painful, scary, and uncomfortable.

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Therapy offers a grounded, compassionate space to experience your emotions safely and begin understanding the patterns that keep you stuck in anxiety, self-criticism, or disconnection.

Does this sound familiar? Let’s dig in.

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Hi, I’m Cara.

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I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Maine, specializing in relational therapy for individuals and couples.

My work focuses on how early attachment patterns and relational stress contribute to anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.

I help people navigate transitions — in love, career, and identity — and build relationships that feel more authentic, balanced, and secure.

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Issues I help with:

  • Couples counseling & relationship distress

  • Anxiety & overthinking

  • Low self-esteem & self-worth

  • Trauma & attachment wounds

  • Infidelity, breakup recovery, and relationship loss

  • Relationship anxiety/OCD

  • Perfectionism & people-pleasing

  • Life transitions, parenthood, and postpartum adjustment

My Specialties

Couples Counseling

Rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment theory, I help couples slow down conflict, understand negative cycles, and rebuild trust and emotional connection.


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Individual Therapy

Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS), I help you turn inward with compassion, understand your emotional parts, and move toward greater clarity and self-trust.


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Start your healing journey here.

Schedule a 15-minute consultation and share with me a bit about who you are and what you’re looking for in therapy.

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