About Carla
Carla McGehee is an LPC with 13 years of counseling experience based in Texas. She focuses on practical, step-by-step work to help people manage stress and anxiety and regain more control in daily life. Carla draws on straightforward techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
She breaks down thinking patterns and coping skills into simple, usable steps. Sessions move at a client’s pace and usually last about 45 minutes.
Background and approach
Her background includes time as an intake specialist and several years counseling at a community mental health center. That work exposed her to a wide range of concerns, from depression and trauma to chronic pain and addiction-related struggles. Carla helps people face losses that come with life change and growth.
She guides clients through grieving old habits and imagining new routines after the end of a job, relationship, or other major change. Goals are set together so the work stays focused and doable. She also uses mindfulness and narrative techniques to help clients notice thoughts and rewrite unhelpful stories about themselves.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want to shift habits or address negative coping patterns. Carla is open to integrating a client’s spiritual beliefs when the client wants that support. Her aim is for people to leave sessions feeling steadier and more hopeful rather than emotionally worn down.
Evidence-informed approaches delivered online
Carla often uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. CBT helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce worry and improve mood. DBT offers practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving how someone responds under stress.She also draws on mindfulness practices to help people notice thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept away, and narrative techniques to help rewrite limiting stories about oneself. Choosing an approach is a team process - the therapist and client decide together which methods fit the client’s goals, needs, and comfort level, and they adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video works well for deeper skill work and face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, chat and messaging can fit short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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