Carrie De Souza, MSW, RCSWI, is a compassionate and skilled therapist at Genesis Counseling, specializing in family dynamics, intergenerational trauma healing, and teen and adult counseling. Based in Coral Springs, she also provides virtual therapy services to clients throughout Florida, including Boca Raton and Delray Beach. Carrie is dedicated to supporting teens and adults as they navigate interpersonal conflict, communication, and boundary setting. Her approach emphasizes building self-esteem, enhancing distress tolerance, and strengthening coping skills to help clients work through issues like anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar disorder, and PTSD, promoting personal growth and emotional resilience.
Carrie believes in creating a safe, supportive environment where clients feel genuinely heard and understood. She values a strong therapeutic alliance that fosters openness, vulnerability, and trust, which she sees as foundational to meaningful self-exploration and growth. Her therapy sessions are a collaborative process that empowers clients to engage actively in their healing journey, fostering resilience, self-discovery, and personal empowerment.
Carrie uses a trauma-informed, client-centered approach, blending techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to guide clients in understanding their unique experiences and developing effective coping and interpersonal skills. This supportive therapeutic relationship offers a safe space for clients to explore their feelings, establish healthy boundaries, and build self-esteem.
With a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Central Florida, Carrie’s clinical background includes extensive experience in community mental health and substance abuse settings, where she treated mood and dissociative disorders, PTSD, personality disorders, and self-harm. She also completed two year-long internships, one at an alternative high school, providing individual and group counseling for teens and young adults, and the other in case management, grief counseling, and crisis intervention at a Level I trauma hospital. Her prior experience as a middle school teacher for students with disabilities enhances her therapeutic approach, particularly in supporting the needs of children and teens.
As an Independent Contractor with Genesis Counseling, Carrie is in-network with United Healthcare, Optum, Oscar, Cigna, Aetna, BlueCrossBlueShield, Florida Blue, Humana, and Tricare East. She also accepts private pay clients, with rates ranging from $125 to $175.
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