About Carrie
Carrie Follmar is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with six years of practice. She approaches therapy believing each person knows their own story and has strengths to draw on. She aims to support and empower people who are ready to make changes.
Carrie keeps language straightforward and focuses on practical steps. Carrie often helps people who are dealing with ADHD and the ways it affects daily life. She also addresses stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, low self-esteem, career shifts, and life transitions.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to blended family issues, caregiver stress, and challenges that come from family of origin dynamics. Her counseling style centers on the person in the room. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters to each individual.
Narrative therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their lives. Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, small goals and try achievable steps between sessions. Carrie blends practical education into sessions when it helps, for example about ADHD or coping skills.
She aims for straightforward tools clients can use between meetings. Her approach is respectful and strengths based, with an emphasis on collaboration and real-world solutions. People who want clear, goal-oriented support and a counselor who listens may find her approach helpful.
Carrie meets people where they are and works with them to build manageable change over time.
How Carrie’s Approaches Work Online
Carrie uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to each person, offering listening and reflection that helps people clarify their needs and priorities. This approach is useful for many concerns including stress, relationships, and self-esteem.Narrative therapy helps people look at the stories they tell about themselves and try different ways of understanding those stories. That can be helpful for family of origin issues, feelings of emptiness, and midlife questions. Solution-focused therapy emphasizes small, practical steps and clear goals, which makes progress measurable between sessions.
Deciding on the best approach is collaborative. Carrie will work with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. People can try ideas in short cycles and refine what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit varied schedules. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be quicker or easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging formats work for short check-ins or ongoing support without scheduling a full call. These options help people access counseling while balancing work, caregiving, or school commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- ADHD
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English