About Carrie
Dr. Carrie Willey is a licensed counselor with more than three decades of practice. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and brings 36 years of experience in mental health care.
Her work has included clinical leadership roles at specialty treatment centers and service in diverse community settings. She uses a mix of practical methods in sessions. That includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address thinking patterns and emotion regulation.
Background and approach
She also integrates Somatic practices that attend to how the body holds stress and trauma. Clients can expect homework and active tools to use between sessions. Her background includes work at residential treatment programs focused on addictions and eating disorders.
She has run intensive workshops for trauma recovery and provided assessments and treatment in tribal health settings. Those roles shaped a hands-on, structured style that still values each person’s strengths. In the therapy room she looks for what already helps a person and builds on those skills.
She often assigns simple, doable tasks so progress continues outside sessions. The approach aims to reduce unhelpful habits and expand coping choices. Outside work she bikes long distances and describes her outlook as spiritual rather than religious.
That perspective informs a respectful, open stance toward people’s beliefs. She invites people ready to change to explore practical steps toward feeling steadier and more able.
How somatic and skills-based methods work online
Somatic Therapy focuses on how the body stores stress and trauma. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, grounding exercises, and breath work to notice and shift physical tension. This approach often helps with trauma reactions, anxiety, and patterns linked to the body.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress. In telework this involves identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and using short homework tasks between sessions to practice changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and skills for tolerating distress. Online DBT-style work teaches breathing, mindfulness, and interpersonal tools that can be practiced in daily life to manage intense emotions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. That selection can change over time as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, while phone, live chat, and text messaging provide shorter check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care, fit appointments into busy schedules, and use exercises in the moment when they are needed.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English