About Carla
Carla Murray is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health Service Provider with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and regain balance in everyday life. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making therapy practical and usable for busy people.
Carla uses practical techniques drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She listens first and then helps set simple, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice for coping with strong emotions and steps to change patterns that get in the way of daily life. Her background includes long-term work with adults facing grief, relationship strain, depression, career stress, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses problems such as abandonment, attachment concerns, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and codependency.
Carla tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation and values. Therapy sessions combine discussion, practical exercises, and brief skill-building tasks between meetings. Clients can expect calm, honest feedback and tools they can try right away.
Carla aims to help people move toward more purposeful, manageable days. She practices in Tennessee and conducts sessions in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Carla commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and changes behaviors that keep problems going, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Mindfulness teaches focusing attention and noticing thoughts and feelings without getting swept away, which can help with emotional regulation and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carla will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on thought and behavior changes, build breathing and grounding skills, or combine methods based on progress and needs.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share between sessions or choose shorter, more frequent contact. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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