About Carrie
Carrie Leafblad is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who guides people through hard emotional times. She draws on five years of experience helping clients with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and self-esteem concerns. Carrie uses a down-to-earth style and focuses on what each person needs in the moment.
She pays attention to how stress and past hurts show up in the body and in daily life. That somatic awareness is paired with practical talk therapy tools.
Background and approach
Sessions often include exploring feelings, noticing physical reactions, and trying new coping skills that fit real life. Carrie also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, eating and body image difficulties, and challenges related to attention and impulse control. She aims to address both immediate symptoms and the everyday patterns that keep problems going.
Conversations are straightforward and collaborative; goals are set together and checked in on regularly. Clients can expect a mix of gentle reflection and concrete strategies. Carrie blends person-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and EMDR when appropriate.
The process moves at a pace comfortable for the client and adapts as needs change. Therapy is offered in English and provided through multiple online formats. Carrie emphasizes practical progress - learning to notice triggers, build routines, and handle setbacks with more tools than before.
Using therapeutic approaches in online care
Somatic-informed work notices how emotions and memories appear in the body. In a session this can mean naming bodily sensations, tracking breath or posture, and linking those sensations to feelings and behaviors to reduce overwhelm. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience without judgment, helping people find their own solutions and set meaningful goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. These approaches can help with anxiety, depression, trauma reactions, body image concerns, and coping with life changes. The therapist talks with the client to decide which methods fit best and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the work feels collaborative.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That range of formats helps people fit therapy into busy schedules, check in between sessions, and use the style of communication that feels safest. Licensed professionals can deliver the same conversational strategies and skill-building work online, while adapting exercises so they work in each chosen format.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English