About Carrie
Carrie Leafblad is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas. She draws on five years of clinical experience to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. Carrie focuses on practical steps people can take right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She often helps people who are managing grief, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, or major life changes. Carrie also supports those dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and compassion fatigue.
How Carrie works
She brings attention to how daily habits and thinking patterns affect mood and behavior. Carrie uses straightforward, person-centered methods to build trust and clarify goals. She combines that with cognitive-behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thought patterns and DBT strategies to manage strong emotions.
For clients processing trauma, she integrates EMDR and mindfulness practices when appropriate for the individual. Sessions work toward concrete skills such as emotion regulation, grounding strategies, better communication, and plans to handle triggers. Carrie emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist choose next steps together so goals feel realistic and measurable.
She frames progress in small, observable changes rather than vague promises. People looking for an English-speaking LPC based in Texas will find a pragmatic, empathetic approach that balances emotional support with tools for change. Carrie aims to help clients regain steadiness, rebuild confidence, and move forward after difficult experiences.
Carrie lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How Carrie’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the person rather than a fixed treatment plan, so sessions start by listening to what matters most and setting shared goals. This approach helps build trust and makes remote sessions feel more personal and relevant.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT can include worksheets, thought records, and behavioral experiments that clients try between sessions and then review together. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills for managing intense feelings and interpersonal strain. These skills translate well to virtual sessions through guided practice and real-time coaching.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before, then recommend techniques to try. Over a few sessions, they adjust methods based on what feels most helpful for the person.
Online formats provide flexibility in how people connect. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when video is not possible, live chat allows shorter check-ins during busy days, and text-based messaging helps with ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a daily routine and to practice skills in real life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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