About Carmen
Carmen Garrison helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can take. Carmen is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 12 years of experience.
She works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, depression, trauma, relationship and identity issues. Carmen uses a person-centered style that emphasizes collaboration. Sessions focus on setting realistic goals and building skills that fit daily life.
How Carmen works
She brings mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to help people manage symptoms and make small, steady changes. Her background includes work in community mental health and independent practice in Pennsylvania. Carmen has a master’s degree in clinical and counseling psychology from Chestnut Hill College.
She draws on that mix of settings to shape practical, hands-on support for everyday problems. Carmen commonly addresses matters such as body image, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and grief. She also helps people navigate gender concerns, non-monogamous relationships, and the stresses that come with caregiving and burnout.
Conversations aim to restore hope and build routines that support wellbeing. In sessions, Carmen blends motivational interviewing with trauma-focused strategies when needed. That combination lets people explore what matters to them, then move toward those goals with concrete steps.
She encourages steady progress and celebrates small wins.
Carmen lists 5 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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s priorities. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what is said, and helps people clarify their goals and values. This approach is useful when someone needs space to talk through identity, relationship, or life-direction questions.Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity. It can help with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions by building practical habits for daily life.
Motivational interviewing is a short-term, goal-oriented approach that explores ambivalence and strengthens motivation for change. It is often used when someone wants to build new routines or tackle behavior changes like sleep, eating, or substance-related patterns.
Carmen treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss options with each person and adjust techniques based on their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they pick strategies that feel manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for in-depth conversations, phone sessions are an option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or between-session support. These formats help people fit therapy into busy days and stay connected without commuting.
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