About Carmen
Carmen Chaney is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) with 17 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety alongside trauma, mood concerns, family stress, and strong emotions. Carmen aims to help people who feel overwhelmed find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Her work is straightforward and adaptable. She combines cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, and mindfulness approaches to fit each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative - Carmen listens, offers tools, and helps people try things between meetings.
Background and approach
Carmen values respect and compassion and avoids stigmatizing labels. She helps people with grief, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, and parenting stress. She also supports those dealing with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, codependency, and isolation.
She offers live video and phone sessions and uses messaging when that suits a client's needs. Carmen does not provide live chat because that format is not effective for her personal communication style. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Carmen encourages small steps toward change. She helps people break big problems into manageable actions. Her aim is to empower clients to build coping skills and notice gradual progress.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Carmen frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, life changes, and getting unstuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thought patterns and tests them against real-life evidence. CBT provides practical skills for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges.Choosing the right approach happens together. Carmen will ask about goals, what has helped before, and how you prefer to work. She adapts the blend of ACT, CBT, and mindfulness strategies based on each person's needs and adjusts as progress is made.
Online formats include live video, phone sessions, and text-based messaging for check-ins or homework. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and feedback. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be used when bandwidth is limited. Messaging supports brief updates, questions, or reinforcement between sessions. These options are meant to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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