About Trudi
Trudi Carlson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 17 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety along with a wide range of life challenges. Her manner is warm and informal, and she aims to make sessions approachable and practical for people feeling overwhelmed.
She uses a blend of client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, dialectical behavior strategies, and solution-focused ideas. Sessions emphasize clear steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Trudi listens closely and helps set small, doable goals to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Trudi has worked in independent practice and has experience supporting people facing depression, relationship strain, parenting stresses, divorce and co-parenting, ADHD, addiction concerns, trauma and grief, anger, and self-esteem struggles. She also addresses career changes, life transitions, and issues like communication problems and codependency.
Her approach is interactive and respectful. Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, but also allow space to process emotions. Mindfulness practices and simple cognitive strategies are woven into sessions when they fit a person's needs.
Trudi speaks English and provides online options including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a session based on the therapist's availability.
How therapeutic approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and responding with empathy and respect. In online sessions this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and helps the person clarify goals and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can be practiced between video or phone sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Online sessions can introduce short DBT skills such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation that clients can use in everyday moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review needs, goals, and personal preferences and suggest techniques to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different schedules and situations. Video calls are useful for face-to-face discussion and guided exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or homework review between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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