About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of clinical experience in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, depression, and addictions. Caralee works collaboratively and helps clients identify practical steps toward their goals.
She uses plain conversation and focused techniques to increase self-awareness and improve everyday coping. Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing skills, and finding clearer direction for life choices.
Background and approach
The tone is nonjudgmental and direct, with practical feedback offered when it helps. Caralee draws on several therapy approaches to address both thoughts and deeper emotional patterns. She blends cognitive-behavioral strategies with attachment-focused work and acceptance-based ideas, choosing methods that fit each person.
This mix supports work on trauma, grief, intimacy, and issues tied to identity and sexuality. She also has a long history addressing more specific concerns such as codependency, dissociation, fertility-related stress, infidelity, and struggles with shame or abandonment. Caralee helps people map how these patterns affect relationships and daily life, then practices new ways of relating and coping.
Her sessions can include couples work around communication and intimacy, and individual sessions focused on life purpose, parenting strain, or compassion fatigue. Caralee aims to be collaborative, practical, and empathic while helping people move toward meaningful change.
How therapeutic approaches shape online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people accept difficult emotions while committing to actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns, which helps with anxiety, mood, and coping in daily life.Picking the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and preferences and will choose or combine methods together. This is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan, and adjustments can be made as progress and needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use body language and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in or less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow frequent, brief contact and can fit into busy schedules or moments when a quick check-in helps.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- 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