About Carla
Carla Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues. She also supports people coping with trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and self-esteem struggles. Carla approaches work in a straightforward, practical way that aims to make daily life easier to handle.
She blends relationship-focused work with evidence-informed techniques. Sessions focus on building skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and making clear steps toward change.
Background and approach
Clients can expect conversations that balance problem-solving with attention to feelings and personal values. Carla draws on cognitive behavioral methods to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses solution-focused techniques to set short-term goals and Mindfulness to help people stay present and calm.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her attention to how relationships and attachment affect mood and behavior. Her practice emphasizes practical tools people can try between sessions. Homework might include brief behavior experiments, communication practice, or simple mindfulness exercises.
The aim is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Carla has nine years of counseling experience and works with a wide range of concerns, including caregiver stress, blended family issues, body image, codependency, infidelity, and forgiveness. Sessions are offered in English and she practices from Connecticut while accepting international clients for online work.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs space to process feelings and clarify values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and behavior change. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) pays attention to how emotions shape relationships and helps people understand and shift interaction patterns that cause recurring pain.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest one or more approaches to try. Sessions may change over time as goals evolve, and decisions are made collaboratively.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and practice skills in real situations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English