About Carey
Carey Alvord is an LMFT in California with 23 years of experience helping people who are stressed or anxious. She focuses on attachment and trauma related to parenting and relationships. Carey aims to create a calm, structured space where people can talk without feeling judged.
She works with biological, foster, adoptive, and relative parents who are open to attachment-based parenting work. She also helps teens and adults who want to better understand how childhood loss or trauma shapes their attachment patterns.
Background and approach
Her practical focus is on making relationships feel safer and more predictable. In sessions she blends straightforward talk with hands-on techniques. Mindfulness skills are used to calm the body and notice patterns as they happen.
Narrative approaches help people reframe painful stories and find different ways to tell them. She also draws on elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. Motivational interviewing is used when people want to make changes but feel stuck or unsure about next steps.
Carey adjusts methods to fit each person's needs and goals. Her experience includes work with developmental trauma, attachment issues, and parent-child dynamics. Carey focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, compassion fatigue, and the ripple effects of trauma.
She encourages small, doable steps so progress feels realistic and steady.
Attachment and Skills Work Online
Carey often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. That work helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try new, safer ways of connecting.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy methods to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Those skills are useful when anxiety or strong feelings get in the way of daily life. Mindfulness Therapy is another tool she offers to build awareness of thoughts and bodily sensations and to reduce reactivity.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Carey will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences, and then suggest techniques to try. She adjusts the plan as progress is made or needs change so the work stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper relational work. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and fit a break at work. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, reflections between sessions, or for people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Dissociation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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