About Carla
Carla McGehee is a licensed professional counselor who centers therapy on practical skills and clear conversation. She frames work around what clients want to change, then uses straightforward tools to get there. Sessions move at a client’s pace and aim to leave people feeling a bit more hopeful after each meeting.
Carla brings 13 years of experience in community mental health settings and personal counseling. She has supported people with depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction-related coping, chronic pain, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her background includes intake and ongoing counseling roles in Texas clinics and outpatient services. In sessions she teaches ways to talk about thoughts and feelings without getting lost in abstract language. She often uses ideas from cognitive behavioral approaches to spot thinking patterns and from dialectical behavior methods to build emotional control skills.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing ideas also appear when they fit the client’s goals. Carla treats loss and change as part of the healing process. She helps people mourn what they gave up when they pursue real change and then reimagine a workable future.
That can mean practical steps after a job loss, grieving a relationship, or shifting habits that once felt like comfort. When clients want, Carla may incorporate a person’s spiritual beliefs into counseling as a source of support. She avoids unnecessary probing and works collaboratively to set therapy goals.
Sessions are usually 45 minutes and allow room for immediate concerns while keeping an eye on long-term progress.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Carla commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy ideas in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral work focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety or depressive feelings. Dialectical behavior ideas teach concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving emotional control in daily life.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Carla will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt methods to fit the person’s needs. She checks in regularly to see if an approach is useful and adjusts the plan together with the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face to face when visual cues matter, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text sessions can serve as shorter check-ins, quick coaching on skills, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options let people fit therapy into busy days and maintain steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English