About Carrie
Carrie Melton, LMSW, uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She centers a respectful, accepting approach and aims to create a space where people feel heard and understood. With 12 years of clinical experience in Michigan, she draws on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness Therapy.
Sessions focus on clear strategies for everyday problems, from managing mood to coping with job stress and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She pays particular attention to issues many clients bring, including ADHD, grief, trauma, compassion fatigue, and concerns related to sexual orientation. Conversations explore how thoughts, habits, and behaviors affect daily life and what small steps can reduce distress. Carrie works collaboratively to build skills for better communication, emotion management, and decision making.
She offers practical tools such as behavioral experiments, mindfulness exercises, and values-based goal setting to guide change. Clients can expect straightforward talk, steady support, and a focus on real-world changes that fit their life. The pace is set by the person in therapy, and sessions are tailored to what feels most useful for each situation.
Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, even when uncomfortable feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns that get in the way of daily functioning, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding practices that calm the nervous system and make it easier to respond rather than react.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. That decision can change over time as needs shift, and sessions will adjust to what proves most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and messaging or live chat suits quick check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try methods that work in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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