About Carri
Carri McClellan helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and relationship strain. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Tennessee with 16 years of clinical experience. Her approach centers on listening first and building goals that make sense for each person.
Carri draws from client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on the person's needs and priorities. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness tools when those methods fit the situation.
Background and approach
Sessions blend practical skills with opportunities to make meaning of painful events. Her background includes extensive work in substance use treatment, and she is comfortable supporting recovery through harm reduction or abstinence-based pathways. That experience informs how she addresses co-occurring concerns like depression, grief, eating issues, and compassion fatigue.
Carri emphasizes collaboration. She and the client set clear, manageable goals and track progress together. People can expect straightforward strategies for coping, communication techniques, and emotional regulation skills they can use between sessions.
She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and has practiced for many years across settings that serve adults with trauma, addiction, and mood concerns. Carri offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based sessions to fit different needs and schedules.
How specific approaches translate to online care
This therapist uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and change patterns that worsen mood or anxiety. CBT sessions online focus on practical exercises, homework, and skill building that can be tracked between meetings.She also employs dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills can be practiced during video or phone sessions and reinforced through short exercises sent via text or chat.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, values, and daily life. That might mean starting with skill-focused work, shifting to trauma processing, or mixing approaches depending on how things are going.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and preferences. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text messaging makes it easier to touch base between appointments. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into work, parenting, or other routines.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Tennessee
- Languages
- English