Carri McClellan, LPC, LPC-MHSP
Practical, body-aware therapy for real life struggles
About Carri
Carri McClellan is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. She offers straightforward support for depression, grief, self-esteem, and intimacy concerns. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at guiding people toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Carri brings 16 years of experience working in counseling and addiction treatment. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Pacific University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The University of Tennessee.
Background and approach
Her work often combines talk-based care with body-aware methods when helpful, drawing on Somatic approaches alongside more familiar therapies. In sessions she uses Client-Centered techniques to make space for each person’s story. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down unhelpful thoughts and habits into small, changeable steps.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for people coping with intense emotions or past trauma. Carri is experienced in supporting people through addiction concerns using both harm reduction and abstinence frameworks, depending on what aligns with a person’s goals. She also addresses issues like caregiving stress, chronic pain, body image, codependency, and communication problems.
She practices in Tennessee and conducts work in English. Sessions are offered through a mix of video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling follows according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Carri commonly uses Somatic approaches to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. This can involve simple grounding and body-awareness exercises paired with talk to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day coping.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means conversations focus on the person’s priorities and pace so goals emerge from what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another tool she uses to identify unhelpful thinking and create step-by-step habits that ease anxiety and depression.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist listens to needs, goals, and preferences and then suggests one or more methods to try. Sessions can shift over time based on what feels most useful and effective for the individual.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit daily life. These options let people access regular support from home or other convenient places, and pick the format that best matches how they like to communicate and process.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Oregon, Tennessee
- Languages
- English