About Carmen
Carmen Chaney is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) who blends practical therapies to help people manage strong emotions and life challenges. She offers straightforward, respectful care and focuses on making change feel possible for clients ready to take the first step. Carmen uses a mix of cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, mindfulness, and acceptance-based tools.
Sessions often include skills practice, noticing patterns, and setting small, achievable goals. She adapts her approach to each person rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan.
How Carmen works
Her work covers stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, mood conditions such as bipolar, and reactions to big life changes. She also supports people facing grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and concerns about self-esteem or career direction.
Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, adoption and foster care matters, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, communication problems, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. She also addresses issues such as codependency, body image, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and isolation or loneliness. Carmen has 17 years of experience and practices in Nebraska.
She communicates in English and is open to working with international clients. She prefers live phone and live video sessions and can use messaging for asynchronous communication when helpful.
Carmen lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Carmen works with
The areas below are the ones Carmen selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LIMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It helps people move toward meaningful goals rather than getting stuck trying to eliminate unpleasant feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) brings skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication to manage intense emotions and relationship strain.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and day-to-day life. That collaborative process includes trying tools in session and adjusting the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including live video, phone sessions, and asynchronous messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and practice skills with real-time feedback. Phone sessions are a good fit when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Messaging supports shorter check-ins or reflective notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit regular work on goals into a busy schedule.
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