Carrie Fraser
Experienced therapist for life transitions
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carrie
Carrie Fraser is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help. She uses simple, direct conversation to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. Carrie aims to make sessions feel calm and nonjudgmental so clients can speak honestly about what matters to them.
She brings 28 years of experience and combines several approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions often include problem-solving, looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, and exploring personal stories that shape current feelings.
Background and approach
Carrie also uses techniques to build motivation for change and to set concrete, manageable steps forward. Her background includes work in mental health, addiction recovery, crisis management, life transitions, and spiritual direction. That range means she can pull from different tools depending on the situation.
She explains ideas plainly and helps clients practice new ways of coping between sessions. Therapy with Carrie is collaborative. She listens first, then suggests goal-oriented methods that fit the client's pace and values.
The focus is on small, consistent changes that improve daily life and relationships. Clients in Tennessee will find her familiar with regional needs and concerns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered in several online formats to fit busy schedules and different comfort levels.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects back what’s heard, and helps the person find their own solutions; this approach works well for people needing a respectful space to talk about difficult feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing small changes to behavior. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress because it gives concrete tools to try between sessions.
Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. It uses short, focused conversations to build internal motivation and set realistic next steps, often helpful for addiction recovery and ambivalence about life shifts.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats allow flexibility for busy schedules, make it easier to attend from home, and offer multiple ways to stay connected between appointments.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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