About Cary
Cary Brim Reid is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing grief, anxiety, stress, and major life changes. She offers practical support for self-esteem, sleep troubles, workplace strain, and career questions. Cary also addresses compassion fatigue and issues affecting LGBT clients.
With six years of experience and a Washington LICSW, she focuses on clear, usable strategies rather than jargon. Sessions are conversational and aimed at finding small steps that fit a client's day.
Background and approach
Cary listens first, then works with each person to set realistic goals. Her style blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness tools. That means clients get space to tell their story alongside concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety.
She also draws on dialectical behavior ideas to help manage strong emotions and improve coping. Cary has worked with people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, and isolation or loneliness. She helps people struggling with control issues, communication problems, and social anxiety or phobia.
Practical topics like smoking or vaping cessation and sleep hygiene are part of her work when clients want them. People looking for short-term coaching or longer-term therapy find she balances goal-setting with emotional processing. Sessions aim to increase self-love, clarify life purpose, and reduce day-to-day distress.
Cary welcomes conversations in English and sees clients in Washington as well as international clients by online formats.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It gives clients space to tell their story while the therapist reflects and helps identify priorities, which is useful for grief, loneliness, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to challenge unhelpful thinking and change behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep and workplace functioning.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It provides concrete techniques for distress tolerance and emotional regulation that can be practiced between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cary will collaborate with clients to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they will try strategies, adjust what doesn't fit, and build on what helps.
Online therapy makes these approaches easier to use around a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face without travel, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility and help therapy fit into daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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