About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a Licensed Professional Counselor with twenty years of clinical experience. She helps people increase self-awareness and develop practical skills to manage stress, anxiety, relationships, and life transitions. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect direct feedback and a respectful space to talk about difficult issues. Caralee draws on both body-focused and evidence-based methods to address emotional and behavioral concerns. She uses somatic ideas to notice how the body and emotions connect.
Background and approach
She also applies Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and take values-driven action. Sessions typically focus on immediate problems like depression, grief, addiction, intimacy issues, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Caralee also supports people coping with attachment wounds, codependency, shame, infidelity, and issues related to kink and alternative sex culture.
She works to make goals clear and practical so progress is visible. Her training includes work in psychodynamic and object relations perspectives alongside specialized cognitive-behavioral instruction. That mix helps her notice both patterns from the past and current thinking that keeps someone stuck.
She describes therapy as a joint effort where insight meets skill-building. Caralee lives in Pennsylvania and offers services in English. She balances clinical work with family life and simple pleasures like gardening, walking, and reading.
Prospective clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body, using breath, posture, and bodily awareness to help people notice and shift tension. This can be useful for anxiety, trauma reactions, and chronic stress by grounding attention in present-moment sensations.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when emotions are difficult. It helps people move toward what matters despite worry or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns of relating and helps people understand how early bonds shape current relationships and trust issues.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit goals, comfort, and pace. That collaboration allows adjustments over time as needs change.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit busy schedules and different comfort levels. These formats make it easier to meet from home, keep continuity during life changes, and check in between sessions when helpful. Licensed professionals can adapt somatic exercises, values work, and attachment-focused conversation to these online formats to keep progress moving.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English