Lenea Carnes, LCSW-QS, Therapist in The Villages, Florida

Lenea Carnes helps children, teens, and adults build practical skills to manage emotional challenges, strengthen relationships, and create steady progress toward their goals. Serving patients across Florida through LifeStance Health, she provides a supportive, structured approach to therapy that balances warmth with clinical clarity, meeting people where they are and helping them move forward with confidence. She is especially passionate about supporting individuals and families impacted by adoption and foster care, substance use concerns, and grief. Lenea brings focused experience working with families navigating dependency systems, individuals in recovery, and parents coping with profound loss, including maternal grief following infant loss or stillbirth. Her work emphasizes understanding root causes, reducing shame, and developing realistic action steps that translate into everyday life. Lenea treats children, adolescents, teens, and adults, with care tailored to developmental needs across each stage. Her primary specialties include alcohol and drug use issues, anxiety, and childhood behavior challenges, and she also addresses additional concerns such as ADHD, depression, trauma, and school avoidance. She offers individual therapy, group therapy, intensive outpatient programming, and case management, integrating evidence-based interventions like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness strategies, and parenting skills to promote lasting change. Clients often appreciate her active, strength-based style that is solution-focused and collaborative. Lenea works with individuals and families across Florida to clarify goals, build coping tools, and support healthier patterns at home, school, and work. Outside of her clinical work, she enjoys reading vampire novels, gardening, and spending time with her family and her Golden Retriever, Rosie.