About Carrie
Carrie Fraser is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 28 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people wrestling with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and changes in life. Her approach centers on listening first and tailoring each session to what the client needs right now.
She favors a collaborative style. Sessions focus on clear goals and steady steps forward. Carrie uses well-known methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered work to help people name problems and build workable skills.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas are included when clients want quick, actionable changes. She has a long background in addiction recovery, crisis management, and spiritual direction. That experience informs how she responds to complicated situations like co-occurring conditions, caregiver stress, and major life transitions.
Carrie aims to meet each person where they are without judgment. In sessions she helps people sort through relationships, communication problems, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports those facing career pressure, burnout, or compassion fatigue.
Treatment plans are practical and written around daily life demands. Therapy with Carrie moves at the client’s pace. The work often includes skill practice, straightforward feedback, and space to tell one’s story.
People who want clear tools and steady support find this type of care helpful.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that cause daily stress. Client-Centered Therapy puts the persons experience at the center and relies on listening and empathy to help people make their own changes. Motivational Interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change and is often used in addiction work.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and practical needs together and pick methods that match what feels most helpful. That collaboration can include trying different techniques and tracking what improves over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for longer sessions and visual connection. Phone sessions are simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between sessions, jot down thoughts, or use brief coaching-style support. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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