Carleen Gates, LICSW

Carleen Gates is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 10 years of experience in the mental health field. She has provided a range of services across settings, including case management, group therapy, individual sessions, school-based work, telehealth, and in-home mental health support. Her background includes work with clients facing trauma, anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, relationship difficulties, family dynamic distress, communication challenges, and emotional abuse.

Her therapeutic style is caring, encouraging, and client-centered, balanced by a candid and direct approach when needed. She emphasizes compassion, sensitivity, and thoughtful attention to each person's needs, and she prioritizes treating every client with respect and dignity. Carleen helps clients navigate the courage required to seek help and to make meaningful changes in their lives.

She integrates several evidence-informed approaches to tailor treatment to each individual, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Psychodynamic Therapy. Her specialty areas include stress, anxiety, family concerns, grief, depression, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, with additional focus on family problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, life purpose, financial issues, self-love, and women's issues.

Carleen is accepting new clients in Alabama and offers support designed to guide people toward a more empowered and rewarding life. She welcomes the opportunity to work collaboratively with clients as they take steps toward change and healing.