Caroline Swan, LMSW

My therapy style is highly relational, collaborative, and humanistic. Operating from a holistic lens, I consider each patient as their own unique individual within the context of their environment. Central to my therapeutic style is my emphasis on the working relationship; I take the time to get to know each patient outside of their “presenting problem” and have a natural inclination to see their inherent strengths. With my lived experience as an NCAA collegiate athlete, I can provide meaningful empathy and understanding to a student-athlete’s experience.

I focus on building a solid therapeutic rapport founded on consistency, reliability, and trust, while knowing how and when to push patients a little out of their comfort zone and into their growth zone. I use mostly experiential techniques working a lot in the present moment while also offering tools to manage intense experiences outside of the therapy room.

Patients have said they they appreciate the way I see them as more than their “issues” and instead focus on their capacity for positive change; I see my patients as a multi-faceted, complex human being with many parts and an innately compassionate, creative, liberated, wise, core self. Past patients have appreciated my non-pathological approach and how I focused on their strengths as opposed to their struggles. Specifically, my patients have told me they enjoyed how I was able to reframe their self-defeating beliefs into more beneficial beliefs and how they have carried that with them outside of the office.