About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience. She practices in Pennsylvania and works with adults on relationship, mood, and stress-related concerns. Caralee aims to help people build awareness, skills, and clearer direction for life.
Her approach blends attention to thoughts and behaviors with attention to deeper emotional patterns. She uses methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy.
How Caralee works
These tools help with anxiety, depression, trauma, intimacy issues, and problems with trust and connection. Caralee often helps people who struggle with addiction, compassion fatigue, grief, and self-esteem difficulties. She also focuses on relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, jealousy, infidelity, and communication problems.
Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, codependency, dissociation, and concerns tied to kink or alternative sex culture. Sessions emphasize collaboration. Caralee offers practical feedback and helps clients set concrete goals.
She encourages people to notice patterns, try new behaviors, and track small changes over time. Outside of work she values family life, reading, gardening, music, yoga, and being outdoors. Her personal experience with major life events contributes to an empathic, down-to-earth style.
The work is meant to be a joint effort toward clearer direction and more satisfying relationships.
Caralee lists 17 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
What Caralee works with
The areas below are the ones Caralee selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to value-based actions. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and issues of life purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through concrete exercises and practice between sessions. It often helps with mood, stress, and addiction-related concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current closeness and trust, and it can guide work on intimacy, communication, and relationship wounds.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will adapt methods and pace so the work fits the client’s needs and life circumstances.
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful when visual connection supports relationship work. Phone calls are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a focused check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow short, flexible check-ins and skill coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work from different locations.
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