About Cara
Cara Tuley is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor with 33 years of experience. She aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, and ADHD concerns. Cara presents herself as open and accepting and focuses on practical steps that help day-to-day life.
She uses plain, goal-oriented methods like cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Cara also draws on mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas to help clients notice difficult thoughts without getting overwhelmed. This mix helps with mood, sleep, impulse control, and sticking with new habits. Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth.
Cara listens first, then offers straightforward tools and small experiments clients can try between sessions. She pays attention to how life roles, work, and relationship pressures affect mental health and adapts strategies to each person’s routine. Cara has worked with adults across Ohio and has provided services to people in other states and internationally.
She is familiar with concerns such as trauma, addiction, caregiver stress, and issues around identity and intimacy. Her long practice gives her a broad perspective on managing life changes and complex problems. Clients can expect consistent, practical guidance aimed at measurable changes.
Cara brings steady experience, an accepting attitude, and therapy methods intended to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
How Cara’s Approaches Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to change how people feel and act. It is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing ADHD-related routines.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions. It supports values-based changes and can be useful for stress, mood swings, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try techniques and adjust the plan based on what fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a simpler way to check in when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching moments, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 33 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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