About Carla
Carla Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Connecticut who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, bipolar symptoms, and phobias. She also supports those facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and concerns around identity and self-esteem. Carla writes plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use each day.
Carla takes a relationships-centered approach. She aims to build a straightforward connection so people feel heard and can talk about what matters most.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on skill building - communication, emotion regulation, and coping tools that fit a person's life. Her work draws on client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in each person's experience. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thinking and test small behavior changes.
Solution-focused work helps set short-term goals and track progress between meetings. Carla also uses mindfulness practices to bring attention to the present moment and reduce reactivity. Emotionally-focused ideas guide work on attachment and repairing communication patterns when relationships feel strained.
She mixes these approaches to match what a person needs at the time. With nine years of counseling experience, Carla brings practical problem solving and calm support. She aims to make therapy usable - actions clients can try right away - while also listening for the deeper patterns that affect daily life.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experiences and priorities. It creates space for people to tell their story and guides the therapist to follow the person's lead. This approach helps when someone needs the therapist to listen, reflect, and help them name what matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Online CBT often uses concrete exercises and between-session tasks to test new ways of thinking and behaving. It is helpful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and stress when people want clear steps to try between meetings.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name emotions that shape relationship patterns. In online sessions, this can mean practicing new communication moves and noticing how feelings shift in the moment. It is useful for people working on connection and repairing repeated conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help you pick methods that match your goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust over time if something is not working. That collaborative process aims to make sessions useful from the start.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging add flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or step-by-step coaching easier between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, and family routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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