Carly Turner
Compassionate listener who builds practical skills
- Credentials
- LISW
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carly
Carly Turner is a Licensed Independent Social Worker practicing in Iowa. She has four years of clinical experience and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of New England. Carly presents herself as a warm, reflective clinician who values listening first.
Her way of working centers on treating each person with respect and attention to their story. Her approach is practical and collaborative. She uses familiar tools from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice patterns and make small changes.
Background and approach
She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness techniques when managing strong emotions or overwhelming stress. Carly has supported people dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and addiction-related concerns. She has additional experience with caregiving stress, aging and geriatric issues, body image, and chronic health challenges.
These areas often overlap, and she aims to address what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on clear skills, steady support, and practical next steps. Carly helps clients set achievable goals, try new strategies between sessions, and reflect on what works.
Her style is steady and attentive, with an emphasis on building strengths and coping skills. She accepts English-speaking clients and works with people across different locations, including international clients. Carly uses a collaborative process to match methods to each person’s needs and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Carly commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online sessions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a supportive space where the client leads the conversation. It helps when someone needs understanding, clarity, and steady emotional support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful patterns.She may also use Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, when emotions feel intense or overwhelming. DBT adds skills for managing distress, improving emotional regulation, and handling difficult relationships. Carly works with each person to decide which approaches fit best, matching techniques to goals and real-life needs in a collaborative way.
Online formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or health issues. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when schedules are tight, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins and ongoing skill practice between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into daily life.
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.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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