About Carla
Carla Harper helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and changes in life. She supports those coping with trauma, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and concerns around self-esteem and identity. Carla is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nine years of clinical experience in Connecticut.
Her style is relationship-focused and straightforward. She aims to build a practical connection so clients can tackle everyday problems and feel understood. Sessions move at a steady pace and focus on skills people can use between meetings.
How Carla works
Carla draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow a client’s lead, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns that cause distress, and Solution-Focused Therapy to set clear, achievable goals. Mindfulness techniques and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas appear when helpful for emotion regulation and repairs in close relationships.
She has worked with people facing trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and developmental differences such as Autism and Asperger Syndrome. That background informs a practical approach to coping, communication, and family-related challenges without assuming one path fits everyone. Carla emphasizes collaboration.
Together she and the client decide which strategies to try and which to adjust. The aim is steady progress: clearer communication, reduced overwhelm, and better day-to-day functioning.
Carla lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Carla works with
The areas below are the ones Carla selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Carla commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities so the conversation feels led by the person seeking help. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.She also brings Solution-Focused Therapy into sessions when people want concrete goals and faster progress. That approach narrows in on small, achievable steps and helps measure what changes are working. Carla treats choosing an approach as a team effort and will discuss what methods seem most helpful based on a client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat or messaging can provide shorter check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between longer appointments. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around daily life and to try different formats to see what fits best.
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