Cara Greene, LCSW

Cara Greene is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than 30 years of clinical experience supporting adults and senior adults through a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, self-esteem concerns, grief, parenting and family issues, and coping with life changes, and applies psychodynamic principles alongside other therapeutic techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs.

Cara trained in psychology at Connecticut College and completed a graduate degree in social work at Adelphi University. She pursued post-graduate study at the Center for Modern Psychoanalysis and has taught clinical training, supervision, diagnosis, and treatment at the graduate level at Long Island University. Her background includes work in private practice, community mental health centers, and social service agencies, and she served as Director of Social Work at a large agency where she managed therapy programs and supervised staff and therapists in training.

Her clinical experience covers mood and personality disorders, social anxiety, caregiving and chronic illness issues, bereavement and grief, marital and family conflict, divorce and separation adjustment, occupational or educational difficulties, and challenges associated with aging. In 2020 she presented a series of webinars addressing COVID-related stress and practical techniques to reduce anxiety. Trained in multiple approaches, she adapts methods to better meet individual goals while drawing on psychodynamic therapy as a core orientation.

Cara engages with clients using the communication mode that feels most comfortable to them. She often prefers video sessions to foster rapport but is also available by phone and text. She typically checks messages multiple times daily, seven days a week, and most often responds within 24 hours.