About Carrie
Carrie Bican is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship troubles, grief, career shifts, or changes in life stage. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Carrie draws on nine years of experience in schools and psychiatric settings. That work gave her insight into common struggles like depression, motivation, sleep problems, and substance concerns.
Background and approach
She also works with people coping with caregiver strain, first responder stress, and complicated family dynamics. In sessions she starts by listening to what matters most to each person. Carrie uses a person-centered stance and combines approaches to match a client's needs.
That can mean building coping skills, practicing mindfulness, or looking at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. She commonly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and DBT-informed skills to manage strong emotions. Attachment-based ideas help when relational history affects present life.
Carrie aims to make therapy feel relevant and believable, not scripted. Clients can expect a focus on daily skills, clearer communication, and more consistent routines. She also supports people exploring life purpose, career questions, or recovery from trauma and loss.
Her approach emphasizes small, practical changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current feelings and patterns. This approach is useful when worry or conflict traces back to trust, closeness, or old hurts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers step-by-step tools to change unhelpful patterns, which many people find helpful for anxiety and mood problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication, often used when stress leads to intense reactions.Carrie treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She listens to a person's history, goals, and daily routines, then suggests strategies to try. Sessions are collaborative - methods can be adjusted over time to match what is working and what is not.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversations; phone can be easier when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging help keep momentum between sessions or fit support into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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