Carrie Holland-Lee
Empathetic guidance for everyday family and personal challenges
- Credentials
- MD, LCPC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Carrie
Carrie Holland-Lee is a licensed clinician in Maryland with 11 years of clinical experience. She works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and issues around self-esteem. She also offers support for parenting concerns, intimacy-related questions, identity and LGBT matters, and life transitions.
Carrie presents herself as a supportive, practical guide rather than an authority on a client's life story. Carrie believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into the room.
Background and approach
She emphasizes collaboration and clear steps so clients can move toward goals that matter to them. Sessions tend to focus on what is useful now and what can change in daily life. Her background includes training as a medical doctor, MD, and professional licensure as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC.
Those credentials inform a pragmatic approach rooted in listening and evidence-informed methods. Carrie blends a warm, nonjudgmental stance with tools that help people manage symptoms and make concrete changes. In practice she uses Client-Centered Therapy to build trust and to center the client's priorities.
She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, for skills that target thinking patterns and behaviors that keep problems in place. Parents and individuals often leave sessions with simple, actionable strategies to try between appointments. Her aim is to support and empower people who want a more fulfilling life.
She focuses on small, steady shifts rather than quick fixes, and she helps clients track progress over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, understanding, and following the client's lead. It aims to create a respectful space where the client's goals and values guide each session. This approach can help with building confidence, clarifying priorities, and repairing strained relationships.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, blends short-term skill-building with practical exercises. It looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings and teaches concrete techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about concerns, preferences, and goals, then suggest whether a listening-focused approach, skills work, or a mix will be most useful. That plan can be adjusted as work progresses.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for busy schedules and parents managing childcare. These formats make it easier to follow through on regular meetings and to practice skills in day-to-day life. Carrie uses online options to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a family's routine.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
Next step
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