About Carla
Carla McGehee uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people manage strong emotions and make lasting changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 13 years of experience and practices from Texas. Carla keeps sessions focused and paced to each person's needs, aiming to end meetings with clearer steps and renewed hope.
Her approach brings together Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas to make thinking and feeling easier to talk about.
How Carla works
She also draws on mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work when those methods fit a person's goals. Those methods are explained in simple terms and applied in ways that connect to everyday life. Carla has experience supporting people facing depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, grief, and trauma.
She also addresses stress, self-esteem, relationship strain, intimacy issues, parenting concerns, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include chronic pain and illness, attachment and communication problems, ADHD, and body image struggles. Sessions are typically 45 minutes and move at the client's pace.
Goals are set together, and Carla avoids unnecessary probing into sensitive areas. Clients are encouraged to give feedback during sessions so the work stays helpful and manageable. Her background includes work as an intake specialist and several years as a mental health counselor in community settings.
That experience shaped a straightforward, supportive style that centers practical steps and rebuilding hope after loss or difficult change.
Carla lists 6 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online change
Carla uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) ideas in online sessions. CBT helps identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and the behaviors that follow, which can reduce anxiety and depression. DBT offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving emotional control, useful for anger, impulse struggles, and distress tolerance.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust over time. Sessions may blend techniques so the work stays useful and grounded in the client's everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for skill teaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option and work well for focused check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support ongoing coaching, brief check-ins, and flexible scheduling around work or caregiving duties.
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