About Carmen
Carmen Chaney is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical strategies to reduce overwhelming feelings. Carmen keeps her work direct and respectful to help people make steady changes.
Carmen often uses cognitive-behavioral tools to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas are used to build present-moment coping and values-driven action.
Background and approach
She helps with common concerns such as anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, stress, and major life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting pressures, caregiver stress, ADHD, and career or identity questions. Carmen works with complicated feelings like shame, anger, and isolation so they feel more manageable.
Carmen describes her style as eclectic and straightforward. She avoids stigmatizing labels and tailors conversations and plans to each person’s needs. Sessions focus on concrete skills, short-term problem solving, and steady progress toward meaningful goals.
She offers live video and live phone sessions, and she is comfortable using messaging though she does not provide live chat. Carmen accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through a matching and scheduling process to get started.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is helpful for stress, life changes, and persistent worry. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It often uses clear, homework-style exercises to build new skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers practical tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can help with intense emotions, anger, and interpersonal problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carmen works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they try techniques and adjust the plan so it fits day-to-day life and the issues the person brings to sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Live video lets therapists and clients work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Messaging and scheduled text sessions allow brief check-ins or written reflections between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit skill practice into a busy routine and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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