Kathleen Carter, LCSW-C

Kathleen Carter, MSW-CAFH, LCSW-C, ADHD-CCSP earned her master’s degree from The University of Maryland with a concentration in Child, Adolescent, and Family Health. She has worked in a variety of settings with adults, children and their families, supporting their healthy adjustment to health, social, emotional, and learning challenges. Her work with children with chronic health conditions and their families, focuses on helping children build resilience, while learning how to navigate the adjustment to chronic health conditions and thrive in the process.

Kathleen has worked for over 20 years with parents and their children using a family system approach to helping families embrace the unique and important impact of each member’s role in healthy family functioning. She has developed parenting workshops for new parents and parents of school-age children.

Kathleen is an experienced K-8 school social worker and uses a variety of approaches when working with children in school settings. Kathleen collaborates with her clients and their families to build social, emotional, executive functioning, and problem-solving skills. She uses psychoeducation to teach children all about their amazing brains and how they can make them grow stronger and successfully navigate social, emotional and academic challenges. Through this process, children discover their own capacity to learn, develop and maintain friendships, solve problems and reduce the barriers that hold them back from accomplishing their goals. Kathleen works closely with children with ADHD and Executive Function challenges as well as their families to create strategies and environments that help children thrive both at home and in educational settings.

Areas of Concentration:

● School Adjustment and Refusal

● ADHD, Executive Functioning

● ADHD Parent Coaching

● Anxiety

● Parenting

● Social Skills

● Childhood and Adolescent Chronic Health Conditions

● Parental Adjustment to Child and Adolescent Chronic Health Conditions

● ADHD, Executive Function Building

● School Adjustment

Treatment Modalities:

● Client-Centered Therapy

● Strengths Based

● Family Systems Theory

● Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

● Solution-Focused Therapy

● Psychoeducation

Maryland LCSW-C License # 23352