About Carrie
Carrie Johnson is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 14 years of practice. She focuses on supporting people through depression, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical change and clearer thinking.
Carrie uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and build a trusting therapeutic relationship.
Background and approach
She works with a broad range of concerns, including stress, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, eating and parenting stress, and challenges related to identity such as gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication problems, substance use, and first responder stress.
Carrie aims to help people move through transitions, heal from past events, and regain a sense of control over daily life. Sessions emphasize small, manageable steps and skills that can be used between meetings. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and foster present-moment awareness.
Her practice is informed by years of work with diverse clients across cultural backgrounds. Carrie combines practical strategies with steady support to help people clarify goals and build resilience. She invites prospective clients to begin with a short matching questionnaire to find the right fit.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience without judgment, helping people feel heard and able to set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to process painful memories and reduce their emotional intensity for people dealing with trauma.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they adjust techniques and pace so the work fits the person's needs and rhythms.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video works well for in-depth work and visual connection, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and let people choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English