About Carmen
Carmen Shumate is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier and safer, and offers a calm, respectful approach for people facing strong emotions. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She also draws on client-centered methods to shape sessions around each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions address depression, grief, trauma, relationship challenges, and low self-esteem. Carmen has worked in hospitals, outpatient offices, residential facilities, group homes, and in people’s homes. That variety means she is used to different crises and routines, and can adapt how she talks and plans treatment to fit each situation.
Her work also covers body image concerns, chronic pain and illness, communication problems, disaster-related stress, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and workplace strain. She helps people with guilt, shame, and the practical fallout from divorce or separation. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She customizes goals and sessions to match what matters most to the person in front of her. She encourages small, concrete steps that build confidence over time. Carmen keeps a wide schedule with early mornings, afternoons, and late nights.
She aims to make starting therapy as simple as possible and supports each person through the first steps of getting help.
How Carmen's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experiences. In online sessions this means conversations follow what matters most to the client, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and shaping the plan around those priorities. It is useful for people who want a supportive space to talk through life challenges.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT often includes short exercises, worksheets, and focused talk between sessions to practice new skills. It can be helpful for stress, anxiety, depression, and mood problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carmen will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines to choose methods that fit. The plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text sessions make shorter check-ins or step-by-step coaching possible and can fit into a busy schedule. These options make therapy more flexible for different lifestyles and routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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