Caralee Crary
Practical, collaborative therapy for families and parenting
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a licensed professional counselor who brings 20 years of clinical experience to people facing family and parenting challenges. She focuses on helping adults, couples, children, and teens make practical changes. Her work centers on building self-awareness, clearer communication, and everyday skills that help families function better.
She uses a mix of approaches drawn from cognitive-behavioral training and psychodynamic ideas. That means she pays attention to both the patterns that run beneath feelings and the thoughts and behaviors people use day to day.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - she offers feedback and helps clients try new ways of relating and coping. Caralee often supports people working through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting difficulties, and addictions. She also addresses attachment and abandonment concerns, communication problems, and issues related to identity and sexuality, including LGBTQ matters and kink-affirming topics when relevant.
Her background includes work with trauma, bipolar disorder, and compassion fatigue. Her style is nonjudgmental and practical. She aims to empower clients to identify goals and take small, manageable steps toward them.
Parents and caregivers will find straightforward guidance on communication and family dynamics. Caralee practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English. She blends warm, empathic listening with concrete tools from therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people change how they live and relate.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that align with what matters. It helps with anxiety, stress, and feelings of being stuck by teaching mindful awareness and committed behavior change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people improve trust and closeness in families and couples.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting over time based on what works best for you and your family.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier for busy parents and caregivers. These options allow work on communication, parenting strategies, emotion regulation skills, and relationship patterns from home or another convenient place. Licensed professionals can use brief exercises, skill coaching, and talk-based sessions in these formats to support progress and flexibility.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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