About Jeralyn
Dr. Jeralyn Carter is a licensed mental health counselor with 18 years of practice experience. She welcomes people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, mood shifts, or questions about identity and intimacy.
Her manner is calm and straightforward, and she focuses on helping clients find steady ways to feel better in daily life. Dr. Carter uses a somatic-informed approach that links body sensations with emotions and thoughts.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to tailor sessions to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions typically include talk, practical skills, and attention to how the body responds to stress. Her background includes long experience working with trauma, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship challenges. She has supported people through grief, caregiving strain, chronic health challenges, parenting stress, and identity-related issues.
This range informs a flexible style that meets practical problems and deeper wounds. Dr. Carter describes her work as collaborative.
She helps people set realistic goals and tracks progress over time. Expect a warm, nonjudgmental space where your experience is listened to and named plainly. She offers services from Hawaii and communicates in English.
International clients are accepted and sessions can be scheduled in formats that fit busy lives.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Dr. Carter combines somatic awareness with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to address both felt experience and life goals. Somatic work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and learn simple ways to ease physical tension that fuels anxiety or panic. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and building small, practical actions that support meaningful change. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes a respectful, listening stance so the client feels heard and guided rather than lectured.Choosing the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust the approach over time, trying practical skills and body-focused exercises alongside talk work to see what helps.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules. Clients can practice skills between sessions and check in using the format that suits their pace and comfort.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English