About Sontra
Sontra Carmouche is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She centers sessions on each person's strengths and goals. She aims to make the first step feel doable for someone worried about change or feeling stuck.
Sontra uses a person-centered way of working that asks clients what matters most to them. She listens and reflects so people feel heard and can explore their options.
Background and approach
She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change and keep moving forward. Solution-focused techniques are part of her practice, which means she helps clients set small, concrete goals and track progress. This is useful for concerns like sleep problems, low mood, or trouble with motivation.
She also supports people navigating grief, trauma, addiction issues, and relationship strain. With five years of clinical experience in Louisiana, Sontra draws on practical methods rather than jargon. Sessions are straightforward and goal oriented.
She works with people facing career stresses, parenting strain, aging and geriatric issues, and end-of-life related concerns. People meet in ways that fit their life such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Sontra encourages clients to say what they need from therapy and to shape the work together.
She emphasizes small steps, clear goals, and steady progress.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person says matters most. Online sessions let her listen deeply and reflect back what she hears so clients can clarify their goals and feel understood.Motivational Interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change and strengthen commitment. In remote sessions she uses brief conversations and targeted questions to boost motivation and plan next steps that fit daily life.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, practical steps and measurable progress. Over video or text she helps clients identify concrete actions, try them between sessions, and review what worked to adjust the plan.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust as needed. The process is flexible and driven by what the client finds most helpful.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let you read body language and hold fuller conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or quick planning between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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