About Carrie
Carrie Leafblad is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works with adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and trauma. She practices in Texas and brings five years of experience to each session. Her approach aims to be compassionate and straightforward.
She focuses on helping people find practical ways to cope and move forward. Carrie uses talking, problem solving, and skill practice to help people with difficult emotions. She listens for what matters most to each person and adjusts sessions to meet their needs.
Background and approach
Common concerns she addresses include self-esteem, relationship strain, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with complex situations like addictions, dissociation, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and eating or body image issues. Work can include managing impulsivity, anger, or the effects of past abuse.
Carrie pays attention to how daily habits, thoughts, and relationships affect mood and functioning. Sessions often include practical tools from cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to reduce stress and interrupt unhelpful thinking. Carrie may also use dialectical skills or eye movement methods when trauma symptoms are present.
The pace and tools are set together so clients feel involved in their care. People who choose Carrie usually want a direct, empathetic listener who offers concrete strategies. She aims to help clients build routines and skills they can use outside sessions.
The focus is on steady progress and realistic steps toward feeling better.
How Carrie’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviors that contribute to anxiety and depression. Online sessions can include worksheets, behavioral experiments, and practical homework to try between meetings.Mindfulness Therapy teaches grounding and present-moment skills to reduce stress and reactivity. These practices can be guided during a live video or reinforced with brief audio or text reminders between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved communication. In remote sessions this can mean practicing skills in real time and reviewing how they worked in daily life.
Carrie treats selecting an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth work and skills coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people keep a running conversation and send brief updates or questions between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to attend regularly and use therapy tools when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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