About Carla
Carla Rawls helps people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about the next step. She focuses on building motivation, self esteem, and confidence so clients can move toward goals they care about. Carla is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience and works from Mississippi.
Carla spends sessions listening to each person’s story and looking for strengths to use in the work. She offers practical guidance for career difficulties and for people facing big life changes.
How Carla works
Her approach includes coaching-style support for executive and professional challenges as well as help managing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, and depression. Carla also brings experience assisting people who have intellectual disability, paying attention to communication style and pacing. She values clear goals and small, achievable steps that build momentum over time.
Conversations are grounded and goal-oriented, with room to process feelings as they arise. She believes clients are the experts on their own lives and aims to empower them rather than tell them what to do. Carla works collaboratively to set priorities and create plans that fit real life obligations.
Progress often comes from testing new behaviors, reflecting on what worked, and adjusting the plan. For people juggling work demands and personal struggles, Carla offers a practical way forward. Her work is suited to those who want direct feedback, structured support, and help turning intentions into actions.
She invites clients to take the first step toward change and stays alongside them as they try new strategies.
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.
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Coaching
- Depression
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Carla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical changes and clearer thinking. One approach emphasizes setting concrete, achievable goals and breaking larger problems into smaller steps; this helps with motivation, career planning, and coping with life changes. Another approach concentrates on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors in everyday situations to reduce stress and anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carla works with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what should change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and are useful for deeper work. Phone sessions can fit into shorter breaks or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are available for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside a busy life.
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