Welcome! My name is Caroline Wilson and I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Associate. I was born and raised in WNC, and though my time in graduate school led me to New England and the West Coast, I am so happy to have found my way back to Appalachia.
I have worked in the mental health field since 2013, in transitional living environments, residential treatment centers, public and private schools, and outpatient community mental health settings, with adults, children, and adolescents, and have supported clients across a broad range of ages, abilities, and psychological, spiritual, and emotional needs. I have a special affinity for working with those in major life transitions, transition-aged young people, youth who are exploring dating and intimacy for the first time, those who identify as LGBTQ+, those who identify as fat and/or of size, those in the helping and caregiving professions, and those who identify as erotically marginalized. That being said, I fervently believe that the therapeutic relationship can and should invite work with anyone who needs support with anything.
I have extensive experience and training in attachment theory, mindfulness, relational psychodynamic psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, and the mind-body connection. I use an integrated theoretical framework which includes existential humanism, feminist theories, systems theories, anti-racist praxis, and disability justice. In addition to these frameworks, I am always welcoming a whole-person, intersectional, strengths-based approach to whatever my client wishes to explore. Undergirding these is a belief in the wisdom inherent in the body and creation of coping skills (even those which have come to no longer serve us); the corrective emotional experiences accessible in the therapeutic relationship; and a keen observing eye on socio-cultural factors of power and privilege that inform all people’s lives. In addition to uncovering and exploring work, I also love supporting clients in developing skills, rituals, routines, and habits, and often employ developmentally-appropriate psycho-education and behavioral tools to support in such.
My approach to our work together is to work at your pace, while providing empathetic, conversational, curious, humorous, and warm collaboration. I am an enthusiastic advocate for pleasure, laughter, play, and rest. When I am not in the therapist’s chair, I cherish and protect any time spent reading, moving my body through walking, weight lifting, yoga, and dancing, writing, unashamedly playing with fashion and ingesting pop culture of all stripes, and most especially, time with my beloved family (of origin and chosen), my cats, and near water.
***Clinician headshot by Ariel Shumaker***
