About Carrie
Dr. Carrie Allen combines practical, evidence-informed methods with a warm, respectful approach. She is a licensed professional counselor, LPC, in Texas with 11 years of clinical experience.
She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and related concerns. Her style is straightforward and strengths-based. Clients working with Dr.
Allen can expect help with everyday problems and big transitions. She supports people facing career pressures, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, sleep problems, and low self-esteem.
How Carrie works
She also addresses compassion fatigue, ADHD, and challenges tied to addiction, chronic illness, or major life events. Her sessions blend practical skills and personal exploration. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She draws on acceptance and commitment therapy to help people name values and take meaningful action. Dr. Allen also incorporates attachment-focused and client-centered strategies.
That means she pays attention to how relationships shape feelings and choices, and she centers each person’s perspective in sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy is used when people need skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. She aims to make the work collaborative and doable.
Conversations are focused, with clear steps to practice between sessions. People who want flexible session formats can work with her by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. If someone is in Texas and prefers English sessions, the process begins by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits their needs.
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Carrie lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Online approaches that help you move forward
Dr. Allen often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify personal values and take action even when uncomfortable feelings remain. ACT is helpful for stress, low motivation, and long-term change. Attachment-based ideas are woven into her work to address how relationship patterns affect emotions and trust.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. She works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in, and chat or messaging can fit into busy days or provide ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines while keeping a focus on real skills and measurable steps.
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