About Jeralyn
Dr. Jeralyn Carter helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She works with clients facing trauma, depression, relationship pain, addiction concerns, and questions about identity or intimacy.
Dr. Carter is a licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of experience and she practices from Hawaii. Her style is warm and collaborative.
She listens and then helps set clear, realistic goals. Sessions include practical skills for managing strong emotions and concrete steps to change everyday patterns.
How Jeralyn works
Dr. Carter draws on several familiar approaches to match each persons needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also brings client-centered care and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Jungian ideas when they fit the work. Over her career she has supported people with parenting stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, eating or sleeping problems, ADHD, and career concerns.
She also addresses topics such as abandonment, attachment struggles, and body image. Her work includes trauma, grief, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Therapy is offered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that works for the client.
Jeralyn lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Jeralyn works with
The areas below are the ones Jeralyn 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Dr. Carter frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people name their values and take small steps toward them. ACT is practical for coping with anxiety, stress, and life transitions because it focuses on action aligned with what matters.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. CBT offers concrete tools for managing mood, sleep, eating concerns, and day-to-day anxiety. Client-centered principles guide the work too, so the clients perspective shapes the pace and focus of sessions.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust based on what helps. This makes it easier to combine practical skill building with deeper personal exploration when needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility and access. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction without travel. Phone sessions can be a simpler check-in or a good option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief, frequent check-ins possible and can help sustain momentum between sessions.
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