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Online therapist

Carrie Leafblad

Support for life transitions and healing

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
5 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Carrie

Carrie Leafblad is a Licensed Professional Counselor who practices in Texas. She has five years of experience helping people manage depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She frames work around each person's story and focuses on practical steps that can fit into daily life.

Her approach is adaptive and warm. Sessions often begin with what feels most urgent and move toward skills that reduce distress and improve coping. She uses talk therapy alongside evidence-based techniques to address painful memories and current stresses.

Background and approach

Carrie pays special attention to life transitions and relationship strain. She supports clients facing changes in roles, identity, or responsibilities. She also works with issues around body image, caregiver stress, and healing after difficult events.

Therapy includes concrete tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and rebuilding trust in oneself. Techniques may focus on changing unhelpful thinking, learning grounding and emotion regulation skills, and processing past trauma when appropriate. Sessions aim to leave people with usable strategies between meetings.

Carrie offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works in English and practices under the Texas LPC license TX LPC 80496. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on the therapist's availability.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person's own goals. The therapist provides empathy and helps clients clarify what they want to change or improve, which suits people working through life transitions or relationship strain.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches simple tools to test thoughts, change unhelpful patterns, and build new habits to reduce anxiety and depression.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication for people who feel overwhelmed by intense feelings.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods and adjust them as progress is made.

Online therapy with Carrie is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions. They also allow ongoing access to skills practice, check-ins, and support from licensed professionals without travel.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Carrie commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, and many related problems.
What is her therapy style like?
Sessions are warm and practical. She focuses on concrete skills, emotional processing, and adapting methods to what each person needs.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Carrie has five years of experience as a practicing therapist in Texas.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with license TX LPC 80496 and practices in Texas.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
5 years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English

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