Dr. Caroline Clements

Dr. Caroline Clement, Ph.D. has a counseling approach that is supportive, direct, and action-oriented. She is an experienced and skilled psychologist with over 20 years of experience counseling, teaching, researching, and mentoring young psychologists. She currently has a specialized private practice and is a full time decorated professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

Carrie’s specializations include infertility, male and female reproductive health, and health psychology — health- and illness-related symptoms and complications. Specifically, individuals diagnosed with cancer, going through chemo, loved ones of individuals diagnosed with cancer, chronic illness patients, fertility issues, and conversion disorders. She also worked with empty-nesters, failure to launch situations, and ‘toxic and trying’/high conflict couples.

As a member of the American College of Reproductive Medicine (ACRM), she is passionate about counseling patients struggling with fertility issues or infertility. Carrie knows that fertility challenges can lead to emotional distress and put a strain on a partnership. While fertility treatments in the medical field may be able to help improve the likelihood of conception, it can be helpful for couples or individuals undergoing these treatments to enter therapy to work through grief, anxiety, worry, and other emotions that may be experienced as a result of fertility issues.

In therapy, those faced with infertility will be able to discuss options and make decisions about how to proceed, whether through adoption, fertility treatments, artificial insemination, surrogate parenting, or even separation. Therapy can also help couples deal with the feelings of guilt or anger that may arise between two partners when only one person is infertile.

Carrie has the training, personal experiences, as well as professional experience that makes her highly sought after for counseling individuals diagnosed with cancer as well as those diagnosed with other chronic illnesses. Her approach includes overall support and advocate of her patients as well as, stress and coping skills, communication skills (treatment decision-making, communication with providers), and behavioral sleep and pain management skills. She also often assists in communication between the cancer patient, his/her family, and the patient’s cancer care health team.

She also enjoys working with and has had success in treating conversion disorders. A condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other nervous systems (neurologic) symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.

Fun Fact: Carrie is known as our resident aspiring novelist. When she’s not being a super psychologist you can catch her tucked away with a great novel and spending time with her family and son.