About Carla
Carla Frankoviglia-Gilfry is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 24 years of experience helping people facing stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical support for relationship worries, self-esteem struggles, and coping with big life changes. Her work often centers on issues important to women, such as workplace stress, midlife transitions, and self-love.
Carla uses straightforward conversations to help people understand what they want and how to get there.
Background and approach
She listens closely and helps clients set clear, manageable steps. Sessions tend to focus on solutions and small changes that fit into everyday life. Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques.
That means she pays attention to each person’s experience while offering ways to shift thoughts and habits that get in the way. Mindfulness tools and brief solution-focused planning are often woven into the work. Carla pays attention to body image, communication problems, and finding life purpose.
She helps people build stronger self-esteem and clearer boundaries at work. For those facing midlife challenges, she offers practical steps to reassess priorities and move forward. People who choose Carla can expect calm, direct guidance and an emphasis on actionable goals.
She aims to support steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her practice is centered on respect for each person’s pace and goals.
Approaches and online options for anxiety and life change
Carla blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy in her online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience so they feel heard and supported. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers skills to change patterns that worsen anxiety or low self-esteem.Finding the right approach is a shared process. She will work with clients to decide which mix of listening, skill work, mindfulness, and solution-focused steps fits their goals. That collaborative plan can evolve as progress is made and needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a format for people who prefer writing over speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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