About Carla
Carla Rawls is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience supporting people facing anxiety and related concerns. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away to feel steadier and more capable. Carla emphasizes strengths and small, doable changes that fit into busy lives.
She helps with self esteem and confidence so people can move forward in work and life. Career difficulties and executive or professional coaching are part of her practice.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with major life changes, stress, grief, anger, depression, and challenges related to attention and focus such as ADHD. Carla views each person as the expert of their own story. She listens for strengths and builds on them while helping clients try new strategies.
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and step-by-step plans that feel achievable. Her work includes attention to intellectual disability when it is relevant to a client's needs and goals. The approach is collaborative - she asks questions, suggests tools, and checks in about what is working.
Located in Mississippi, Carla brings a straightforward style that aims to make therapy understandable and useful. She supports people who want practical guidance and encouragement as they make changes and pursue a more satisfying life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Carla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people build skills to manage anxiety and stress through deliberate practice of coping strategies, problem solving, and routine changes that reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on boosting self esteem and motivation by identifying strengths, setting achievable goals, and practicing small behaviors that increase confidence over time.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carla will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try strategies that match those aims. She adjusts the plan based on what helps most and invites feedback so the process stays collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can fit a lunch break or low-bandwidth setting, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions and keep momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Depression
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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