Kwan Carlos, LISW-CP

Kwan Carlos is a licensed social worker in South Carolina who helps people locate and address the deep-rooted patterns that contribute to emotional imbalance and life disruption. She guides clients toward reducing the hold of past experiences so they can build greater confidence, clarify priorities, and take a more active role in shaping their future. Kwan works with individuals affected by a range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, stress, grief and loss, relationship challenges, self-esteem struggles, and trauma including PTSD and sexual trauma. She also attends to issues such as domestic violence, racism and discrimination, geriatric and end-of-life concerns, and other life-stage transitions.

With a practice informed by Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing, she focuses on helping clients navigate internal and external roadblocks to wellbeing. Kwan has experience supporting people through abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver stress, codependency and commitment difficulties, control issues, fertility and fatherhood concerns, divorce and separation, and feelings of isolation or loneliness. Her work extends to those coping with medical-related stressors such as cancer and to families facing disruptive mood challenges.

Kwan holds the LISW-CP credential, which denotes a Licensed Independent Social Worker - Clinical Practice, and she has worked with clients of various ages and backgrounds. Her therapeutic aim is to help each person develop clearer pathways to their own sense of happiness and resilience, and she offers collaborative support for those ready to take the initial step toward change.