Carrie Leafblad, LPC

Carrie Leafblad is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She has five years of clinical experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief. Her work emphasizes clear, practical steps and steady support during difficult times.

Carrie focuses on life transitions and relationship strain. She helps people facing stress from parenting, caregiving, body image concerns, addictions, and major changes in life roles. Sessions aim to make emotional problems easier to understand and manage.

Her style blends practical skills with listening. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. She also uses client-centered listening to make sure each person feels heard and respected.

Carrie draws on dialectical behavior strategies when emotions feel intense and on EMDR for trauma-related memories when appropriate. Mindfulness practices are offered to help with stress, concentration, and grounding in daily life.

People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental tone in sessions and step-by-step tools to try between meetings. Carrie encourages small, achievable changes and checks in on progress. She aims to make therapy a collaborative effort focused on practical outcomes and improved coping.

Therapy with Carrie is offered in English and provided through online formats. The approach is adaptable to each person’s needs, with an emphasis on realistic goals and steady, compassionate support.

How Carrie’s approaches work online

Carrie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress by teaching concrete skills to test and shift thoughts. Client-Centered Therapy is another part of her work and focuses on listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so clients feel understood and can find their own solutions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are used when emotions feel intense - DBT offers skills for managing distress, improving emotion regulation, and strengthening communication.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Carrie talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. From there she recommends strategies and adjusts the plan as progress is tracked, so the work stays practical and collaborative.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper work. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a quick way to check in. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, step-by-step homework, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.