About Carrie
Carrie Catterson-Fitzmaurice is a licensed clinical social worker based in Kansas with 14 years of practice. She works with adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and ADHD. Carrie aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can take steps forward without feeling overwhelmed.
Her style is relaxed and direct. She encourages honesty and sometimes uses humor to ease tense moments. Clients can expect an emphasis on clear goals and building everyday skills they can use between sessions.
Background and approach
Carrie draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings, and solution-focused techniques that target practical changes now. She also uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. These approaches are used to address mood concerns, substance issues, parenting stress, and relationship or family strain.
Sessions often focus on concrete strategies - planning small steps, improving communication, managing emotions, and organizing routines. Carrie supports people working through grief, trauma, anger, and life transitions with a calm, respectful tone. She pays attention to purpose, seasonal mood shifts, and self-harm risk when those issues come up.
Her background includes in-home work and experience supporting older adults with adjustment and loss of independence. Carrie helps clients build self-awareness and stay goal oriented while respecting different lifestyles and beliefs.
How these approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing different responses. It can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and managing mood shifts through concrete exercises and homework.Motivational interviewing is a conversational style that helps a person find internal motivation to change. It supports work on addictions, making lifestyle shifts, or sticking with new habits by exploring personal reasons and small next steps.
Carrie will work with each person to decide which approach, or combination, fits best. She treats the choice as a collaboration and adjusts techniques to match goals, preferences, and how someone responds in early sessions.
Online therapy by video or phone lets people meet from home or while on the go, which can fit work breaks or busy family schedules. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These formats offer flexible ways to keep momentum between sessions and use tools that match a person’s routine and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, California
- Languages
- English
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