About
Dr. Carol Paras is a Board-Certified Adult Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, with extensive experience providing direct patient care.
Trained in The Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, she completed post-graduate fellowship training in Adolescent Psychiatry and Eating Disorders at the Cornell University-Westchester Division.
For many years she was The Medical Director of her own multi-site outpatient and inpatient program for adolescents, young adults and families.
She was also The Medical Director of an Evaluation Center for a private psychiatric hospital system.
Currently she practices telepsychiatry, focusing solely on issues that affect women during the life cycle.
Originally trained by experts in the biopsychosocial model and by psychoanalytically oriented supervisors and family systems experts, Dr. Paras’ orientation and clinical style is now quite eclectic, goal oriented and practical.
She has studied Clinical Hypnosis, EMDR and Ego State Therapy and incorporates many of these techniques into your treatment, if they are deemed to beuseful.
As a psychiatrist, she is fully proficient in the evaluation of the whole person, medically and psychologically. Believing fully in treating the whole person, she is very attuned to her patients’ medical conditions and concerns. She adheres to the philosophy that an attuned mind/body connection delivers optimal health and happiness.
As a psychotherapist, she generally takes the approach of “leaving no stone unturned”, until the issues that you sought help for, are resolved. If necessary, she will refer you to a higher level of care or a different type of care to achieve your goals.