About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses clear, direct conversation to help clients sort through relationship and intimacy issues. Her approach is practical and collaborative, with a focus on building skills that work in daily life.
Caralee blends talking and skill practice to address depression, grief, and struggles with self-esteem. She also supports people facing addiction, compassion fatigue, and the challenges that come with major life changes.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep problems repeating and helps identify steps to change them. Her work includes attention to family dynamics, parenting concerns, and issues related to attachment and abandonment. She also addresses topics such as infidelity, jealousy, sexual expression, and feeling isolated.
She names behaviors and feelings plainly so clients can try new ways of coping. Caralee draws on several therapeutic tools to match a person’s needs. She combines cognitive approaches that shift unhelpful thoughts with emotion-focused work that looks at deeper relationship patterns.
Sessions are cooperative; she offers feedback and practices that clients can use between meetings. Clients can expect a nonjudgmental tone and a focus on real-life changes. Caralee uses practical exercises and steady listening to help people find clearer direction.
Outside work, she enjoys reading, gardening, music, and time with her family.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-driven action. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and getting unstuck from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete tools to change them. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and self-esteem by giving step-by-step practice.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose or blend methods together. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for fuller conversation and face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text work well for ongoing reflections, brief support, or when typing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to use tools in the moments they are needed.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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