About Carrie
Carrie Gajowski helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship pain, and questions about sexuality and identity. She supports people struggling with self-esteem, life changes, and the particular harms of emotional or narcissistic abuse. Carrie uses straightforward tools to help clients find clearer choices and steadier ground.
She keeps sessions focused and practical. Conversations mix problem-solving with space to understand feelings and patterns. Carrie draws from acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive strategies, and client-centered listening to tailor work to each person.
How Carrie works
Her approach pays attention to how past relationships shape current choices. That includes codependency, communication troubles, and patterns that cause guilt or shame. She helps people notice these patterns and practice different ways of relating and setting boundaries.
People who come to her often want help with loneliness, midlife questions, or living openly in non-monogamous or LGBT relationships. Carrie also supports those coping with post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, and struggles around sexuality and self-love. She holds a California and Arizona licensed marriage and family therapist credential, and has seven years of clinical experience.
Sessions are offered in English and arranged to fit each person’s schedule.
Carrie lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Carrie works with
The areas below are the ones Carrie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches That Translate Well Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and building small acts that move someone toward the life they want. It helps when people feel stuck by worry, shame, or confusing relationship patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and teaches practical experiments and skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, social fear, and patterns like codependency. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience in each session and emphasizes being heard. That approach supports emotional processing and helps people feel safer trying new ways of relating.Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they pick methods and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a busy schedule. Live chat and text messaging give shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to match therapy to everyday life and practical constraints.
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