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Online therapist

Angela Stevenson-Carr

Calm, practical support for families and adults

Credentials
LPC
Experience
24 years
Licensed in
Arkansas
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Angela

Angela Stevenson-Carr is a licensed professional counselor in Arkansas who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, and depression. She speaks plainly and creates a calm space where parents and adults can talk through immediate problems. Angela leans on two decades of experience to offer steady support when life feels overwhelming.

She uses straightforward methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, for example, helps identify thoughts that feed worry and replace them with more balanced choices.

Background and approach

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and shift emotional responses in relationships to improve connection and understanding. Angela also incorporates mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and build calm. She draws on solution-focused tools when the goal is practical, short-term change.

Trauma-informed techniques are used when past events are affecting current functioning. Her style is collaborative - she treats the client as the expert on their life and builds plans around what fits each family or individual. She emphasizes small, achievable steps that can lead to steady improvement.

With 24 years in the field, Angela aims to help clients manage grief, parenting challenges, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and life transitions. She works in English and practices as AR LPC P1606063 in Arkansas.

How her approaches work online

Angela often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is good for worry, panic, mood shifts, and problems that respond to practical skill building.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand and change emotional patterns in relationships. EFT focuses on feelings and helps improve connection and communication between partners or family members.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Angela will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first, adjusting as progress is made. This decision is collaborative and paced to your needs.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to connect from home, balance caregiving or work demands, and use brief check-ins when full sessions are not possible. The variety of formats supports steady progress while keeping therapy practical for busy parents and adults.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Mindfulness Therapy

Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family concerns, and related issues such as grief, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her approach is collaborative and practical, using techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, solution-focused work, and trauma-informed care.
How long has she practiced?
Angela has 24 years of professional experience in counseling and mental health work.
What are her credentials and where is she licensed?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, documented as AR LPC P1606063, and practices in Arkansas.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How are sessions scheduled and what is the cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time; to begin, select Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.

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