About Jeralyn
Dr. Jeralyn Carter is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii who focuses on helping people facing phobias, anxiety, stress, grief, and related concerns. She offers calm, steady support and works with clients to set clear, doable goals.
Her style is warm and direct, aimed at easing immediate distress while building skills for long-term coping. With 18 years of experience, Dr. Carter draws on a mix of practical therapies and reflective work.
Background and approach
Sessions often include breathing and grounding techniques, thought-pattern work, and steps to change unhelpful behaviors. She also uses deeper exploration when patterns from the past affect present life. Her approach combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Jungian ideas, and client-centered methods.
That lets her match strategies to what a person needs most, whether that is symptom relief or meaning-focused work. Dr. Carter has supported people through trauma, addiction, mood disorders, relationship difficulties, parenting stress, and identity-related concerns among others.
She works with issues such as ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness, caregiving stress, and attachment challenges. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for phobias, anxiety, and life changes by shifting focus from avoiding discomfort to moving toward meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for phobias, panic, and sleep or eating issues because it breaks problems into manageable tasks. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication; it can help when intense emotions, anger, or relationship conflicts get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when internet is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care around work, school, travel, and changing schedules while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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
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