About Crystal
Crystal Scarborough is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses practical talk and straightforward tools to help people get unstuck and move toward clearer goals. Her style aims to be warm and direct so parents can quickly tell if it feels like a fit.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take actions that match their values.
Background and approach
Crystal also uses Client-Centered and Mindfulness approaches to slow things down and build self-awareness. Sessions often include small homework tasks to practice new skills between meetings. Crystal has five years of clinical experience across hospitals, schools, community settings, and independent practice in North Carolina.
Her background includes work with diverse clients and LGBTQ+ individuals, and she holds dual master’s degrees in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Career Counseling. In sessions she helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, body image concerns, career uncertainty, and life transitions. She also supports those dealing with depression, compassion fatigue, guilt and shame, and multicultural issues.
Conversations are focused on setting clear, achievable goals and tracking progress. People can expect a collaborative plan that blends skill-building and reflective work. Crystal offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so families can fit support into busy days.
Homework and practical strategies are used to make change between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Crystal often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thought and behavior patterns that feed anxiety and stress, then practice concrete skills to shift those patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her work; it focuses on noticing painful thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match personal values.She approaches treatment collaboratively. Early sessions focus on understanding your goals and trying an approach that fits your needs. The therapist and client check in about what is working and adjust methods together to find the best fit.
The practice offers multiple online formats to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you have face-to-face conversation when you want a fuller interaction. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing helps you organize thoughts. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy family and work schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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