About Carrie
Carrie Leafblad is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. She brings five years of clinical experience to her practice and focuses on meeting people where they are. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to make therapy feel manageable and clear.
Carrie prefers short, actionable steps in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients build skills and routines that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Conversations often include practical tools for stress, coping with change, and improving relationships. Her work often addresses life transitions and relationship struggles. Carrie also spends time supporting people with body image concerns, caregiver stress, postpartum adjustments, and recovery from past abuse.
She pays attention to how mood, attention, and impulsivity affect daily functioning. Therapy sessions draw on client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques. Those approaches are mixed to match each person’s needs rather than using a fixed formula.
EMDR and dialectical skills are also part of her toolkit when trauma or emotion regulation is a focus. Carrie aims to create a calm space for honest conversation and gradual change. She helps people set realistic goals, try new coping strategies, and track progress.
Her approach balances empathy with practical problem solving to support steady forward movement.
Approaches that guide online care and healing
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s needs. The therapist follows the client's pace, offers empathy, and helps people clarify goals and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connect; it uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns and is often used for anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. It includes grounding techniques, emotion regulation, and communication strategies useful for impulsivity and mood challenges. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, quick chats fit a busy day, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English