About Carrie
Dr. Carrie Allen uses collaborative, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with eleven years of practice.
Her work is direct and practical, focused on skills and small steps that add up to real change. She helps people who are facing grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, low self-esteem, depression, and compassion fatigue. Career transitions, ADHD, and coping after loss or separation are also areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on what matters most to each person right now and on building tools that fit daily life. Dr. Allen integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral techniques to help people notice what matters, shift unhelpful thinking, and take values-based action.
She also uses attachment-informed work to look at patterns in relationships and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to manage strong emotions when needed. Her style is warm and straightforward, centered on each person’s priorities. Therapy with her can include talk, practical exercises, and skill practice between sessions.
She describes clients as the experts on their own lives and aims to guide people toward clearer goals and steady progress. Progress is built one step at a time. Sessions are offered in English and are provided online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
People who want to begin complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns into concrete steps, teaching practical skills to reduce symptoms of depression, sleeping problems, and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationship patterns shape feelings and expectations, which can help with intimacy, communication problems, and family of origin issues.Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and try them out, adjusting over time to find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion and skills practice. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging support short check-ins, quick skill coaching, and ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options let people access care from different locations and schedules while focusing on the therapeutic work.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English