About Carrie
Dr. Carrie Allen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) working in Texas. She brings 11 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, career struggles, and major life changes.
She speaks English and uses a down-to-earth style to help people start moving forward. She focuses on practical tools and body-centered awareness to help people feel more grounded. Her approach includes Somatic therapy to notice physical signals, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and actions, and attachment-informed work to improve close relationships.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive-behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. Sessions look at the whole situation - symptoms, daily routines, and what matters most to each person. She encourages clients to identify strengths they already have and to use them in small, manageable steps.
Work can include talking, breathing exercises, movement awareness, and skills for coping with stress and sleep problems. People come for a range of concerns from grief and depression to ADHD, compassion fatigue, intimacy issues, and work-related stress. The focus can shift as needs change, with attention to trauma, dissociation, and family-of-origin patterns when they matter to the person’s goals.
Therapy is offered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and is provided by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. To get started, select the Start Therapy button, fill out the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How somatic and values-based approaches work online
Somatic work invites attention to bodily signals and simple grounding practices to reduce overwhelm. Online sessions can focus on breath, posture, movement awareness, and tracking sensations as part of understanding stress and trauma responses.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. In an online setting this looks like setting practical goals, trying experiments between sessions, and using acceptance strategies to reduce struggle with difficult thoughts and feelings.
Attachment-informed work explores relational patterns and how they show up now. Through conversation and reflective exercises, a therapist helps people notice expectations in relationships and develop different ways of connecting and asking for needs.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, test what helps, and adjust methods as needs change. Clients are invited to share preferences so sessions feel useful and manageable.
Online therapy by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. It makes it easier to fit regular sessions into life, try brief check-ins, or practice skills between calls while still working with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- 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
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
- 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
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English