About Carol
Carol Dickey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 25 years of professional experience. She blends counseling and health perspectives to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, phobias, and other worries that make daily life harder. Her manner is practical and down-to-earth, focused on small steps people can use right away.
She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that feed anxiety and low mood.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are used to clarify values and set meaningful goals. Mindfulness practices are introduced in simple ways to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Her background includes work across mental health, chemical dependency, domestic violence, and caregiving settings, and she has experience with issues that often come with aging and chronic health concerns.
That perspective shapes how she addresses problems like sleep disruption, chronic pain, caregiver stress, and end-of-life worries. Many clients find her approach supportive and strengths-focused. She helps people identify barriers to self-respect and make practical plans for change, including work on self-esteem, motivation, and relationship struggles.
Christian principles may be included when a client wishes to bring faith into sessions. Sessions aim to be collaborative: the person’s priorities guide the work and progress moves at a comfortable pace. Carol helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills between meetings, and notice what works so change can stick.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when feelings are difficult. ACT can be useful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behavior patterns that keep problems going, which is especially helpful for panic, obsessive worries, and sleep issues. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience, using listening and empathy to help people feel heard and discover their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and tailor methods accordingly. Treatment may blend methods so practical skills and value-driven goals reinforce each other in a way that feels useful to the person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and practicing exposure exercises that require visual cues. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth way to check in or fit a session into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter, focused check-ins and skill practice between longer meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health limitations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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