About Carleigh
Carleigh O'Brien is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience helping people manage anxiety and stress. She practices from Montana and uses straightforward, practical strategies to help clients handle hard moments. Carleigh aims to make sessions feel like a calm place to sort through what matters most.
She focuses on clear, doable steps rather than jargon. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises and cognitive tools to notice unhelpful thinking and try different responses.
Background and approach
Carleigh also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when anxiety is present. Attachment and relationship patterns are a common focus. She helps clients identify how past connections shape current reactions and teaches skills for clearer communication.
Work often centers on improving emotional understanding and reducing repeated conflict cycles. Trauma, grief, and life transitions are addressed with care and pacing that fit each person. Carleigh supports people coping with postpartum changes, past sexual assault, or other traumatic memories by creating steady, manageable goals.
She also helps with parenting stress, career shifts, and challenges tied to identity and intimacy. Therapy blends conversation, skill practice, and mindfulness moments. Clients leave with concrete tools they can use between sessions and a plan for next steps.
Carleigh encourages honest questions and a slow, collaborative pace to find what works for each person.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and situations where worry blocks meaningful living.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and mood-related concerns by teaching clear strategies to change patterns.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current responses and communication. It can help people who notice repeated conflict, trust challenges, or difficulty with intimacy to build different habits in relationships.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative step. Carleigh will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit the individual's needs. Adjustments can be made as progress and comfort levels become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Montana
- Languages
- English
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