About Carla
Carla Harper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Connecticut who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, mood shifts, and attention challenges such as ADHD. She offers calm, straightforward support for parents, individuals facing relationship or family strain, and people managing life transitions or caregiving stress. Her approach centers on practical skills and steady listening.
Carla blends conversational, relationship-focused work with clear tools you can use between sessions. She listens first, then helps set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on improving communication, lowering daily stress, and building routines that support mood and attention. Her clinical toolkit includes Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), mindfulness practices, and Solution-Focused Therapy. Those methods translate into in-session skill building, thought tracking, emotion mapping, and brief experiments to test what helps in everyday life.
Carla has nine years of counseling experience, including work with people affected by trauma and abuse, mood disorders, and neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger syndrome. She also supports clients dealing with body image, codependency, divorce, and workplace stress. People can expect a steady, nonjudgmental presence and concrete steps to try between meetings.
The tone is collaborative and practical, with a focus on manageable changes that add up over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Carla often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) to guide her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve attention. EFT looks at emotion and connection, helping people name feelings and improve how they talk about them in close relationships.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the work collaborative. That means the therapist listens, reflects, and helps you set goals that feel meaningful. Together the client and therapist decide which methods fit best based on goals, comfort, and day-to-day needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that use facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs to fit a session into a break. Live chat and messaging are good for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or ongoing support between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people try different ways of connecting while they find what helps most.
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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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