About Carrie
Carrie Stormzand is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Missouri with ten years of clinical experience. She offers steady, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and changes in life. Carrie focuses on building a strong working relationship first and listens closely to each person's needs.
She takes a person-centered stance and believes people can grow when they feel understood. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s goals.
Background and approach
Carrie blends straightforward talk with tools people can use between sessions to manage mood, reduce worry, and improve daily functioning. Clients can expect clear explanations and simple strategies rather than technical language. She helps people sort priorities, develop coping skills, and make concrete plans for parenting challenges, career concerns, intimacy questions, or compassion fatigue.
Carrie also supports people navigating LGBT issues and attention-related struggles like ADHD. Her work includes attention to trauma and abuse, with an emphasis on safety and gentle pacing. For addiction concerns she focuses on practical steps and building routines that replace harmful patterns.
Carrie sees recovery as a series of small, manageable changes. She offers multiple online session formats to fit different needs, and works with people across state lines. The first sessions focus on understanding where someone is now and setting realistic short-term goals.
Carrie aims to make therapy feel useful from the start.
How Carrie Uses Practical Approaches Online
Carrie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and measurable progress. One common approach is person-centered work, which centers the conversation on the client's experience and goals and helps build trust and direction. Another approach she uses involves skill-building for mood and anxiety regulation, teaching concrete strategies people can practice between sessions to manage worry and low mood.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carrie begins by asking about immediate concerns and what the client hopes to change. Together they try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and doable for daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits short focused exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel routines while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English