Carlithea Farrington, LCSW

Carlithea Farrington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of professional experience providing compassionate mental health care. She works with people facing a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, relationship and family conflict, stress management, ADHD, parenting challenges, career difficulties, intimate partner violence, and experiences of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and trauma. She also supports individuals navigating eldercare placement decisions, housing instability or displacement, and those who have faced suicidal thoughts.

Carlithea brings a warm, genuine, and dedicated presence to therapeutic work, emphasizing dignity and respect in every interaction. Her background spans schools, government agencies, psychiatric hospital settings, and private practice, and she makes a conscious effort to build rapport and show empathy while honoring each person’s preferred way of being treated. She takes an integrative approach to therapy, drawing from methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to tailor care to individual needs.

As an LCSW Carlithea has training in clinical assessment and psychotherapy and focuses on meeting clients where they are to identify the most helpful interventions. Whether someone is managing family transitions, parenting a newly adopted or foster child, coping with workplace stress, or healing from past trauma, she aims to partner with clients to set practical goals and move toward a more fulfilling life.