About Carley
Carley James Bruner is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people struggling with stress and anxiety. She works with those facing addiction, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and depression. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and that therapy builds on those strengths. Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that add up to real progress.
Background and approach
Carley emphasizes collaboration and practical tools clients can use between sessions. Her background includes 15 years of clinical experience in Washington, where she has worked with a variety of concerns related to attachment, abandonment, and blended family issues. She also addresses caregiver stress, first responder challenges, and struggles with guilt, shame, and impulsivity.
This range informs a flexible approach tailored to each person's situation. Carley draws on a mix of methods to help people manage symptoms and process difficult memories. She uses techniques that teach coping skills, improve emotional regulation, and address relationship patterns.
When trauma is a factor, she includes approaches intended to reduce distress connected to painful events. People who choose her often want clear strategies for daily life alongside thoughtful reflection. Carley aims to make each session useful and practical so clients can try new ways of coping between visits.
Her goal is helping people find more calm, connection, and control in everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Carley commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to guide online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which helps with anxiety, stress, and depressive patterns. EMDR is used to reduce distress tied to traumatic memories by processing the memory in structured sessions. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your history, goals, and what feels most comfortable. Then she will suggest methods and adjust them based on your feedback so the plan fits your needs. Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you work face to face for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing support between sessions, making it easier to keep progress moving forward.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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