About Carri
Carri McClellan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and LPC-MHSP with 16 years of clinical work. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety, or who are coping with trauma, addiction, grief, or major life changes. Carri aims to create an easy-to-understand, practical therapy experience for worried parents and busy adults.
Carri uses straightforward methods to help people manage symptoms and build skills. She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to address thinking patterns and daily habits.
Background and approach
For trauma-related concerns she also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when it fits a person's needs. Her background includes many years in substance use treatment, where she has worked within both harm-reduction and abstinence-based frameworks. That experience informs how she supports people facing addiction, relapse risk, and the emotional fallout that follows.
She also helps with relationship strain, parenting stress, body image, and caregiver burdens. Sessions emphasize practical tools and small, steady steps. Clients can expect goal-focused conversations, skill practice, and ways to handle setbacks without blame.
Carri listens for what matters to each person and tailors strategies to daily life and family routines. Carri practices in Tennessee and offers online options such as video, phone, chat, and messaging. She speaks English and brings a calm, direct presence to sessions.
To begin, people complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. In online sessions this means the therapist follows what matters most to the client and shapes the work around personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and daily habits and teaches practical skills to change them; online CBT often uses brief exercises, thought records, and between-session practice to make progress on anxiety and mood issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, pace, and preferences. That might mean starting with skills-based CBT, adding mindfulness for regulation, or using trauma-focused strategies when needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support quick check-ins or practice between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity when travel or caregiving demands arise, and use the communication style that feels most workable for them.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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