About Carrie
Carrie Bican is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns and life transitions. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what each person brings. Her style aims to make therapy feel practical and down-to-earth for busy lives.
She trained with a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology emphasizing Marital and Family Therapy and holds a California LMFT. Early work included school-based counseling and clinical roles in psychiatric settings, where she supported people through grief, adjustment struggles, depression, and motivation problems.
Background and approach
That background informs how she notices both individual patterns and relational dynamics. Carrie uses a person-centered approach and blends tools from several therapies to match each person's needs. She often draws on attachment ideas to look at relationships, cognitive behavioral techniques to address thoughts and behavior, and mindfulness to build calm and focus.
She also uses elements of family systems and solution-focused work when helpful. Sessions commonly include building coping skills, practicing life and independent living strategies, and increasing self-awareness. She pays attention to how stress, caregiving demands, and co-occurring conditions interact with daily functioning.
ADHD is listed among her focus areas and she supports people coping with attention and organizational challenges. Her manner is collaborative and respectful. She aims to help people find workable steps they can try between sessions and to adjust the approach as goals change.
Blending approaches for online care
Attachment-based work looks at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. In sessions this might mean tracking patterns in close relationships and practicing new ways of connecting that reduce anxiety and conflict.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It often involves identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavior changes, and practicing new skills between sessions to improve mood and daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, test a few methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps. Goals and techniques are revisited as needs evolve so the work stays relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging is good for brief check-ins or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to follow up, practice skills, and keep therapy consistent even with a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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