About Ciarra
Ciarra Waters-Mullen is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Louisiana. She brings seven years of experience helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and attention and focus concerns such as ADHD. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and supportive for clients and their goals.
Ciarra keeps sessions simple and direct. She creates a calm space where people can say what they are feeling and thinking without judgment.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most to each person and helps them set clear, practical steps toward change. Her approach blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. This means she pays attention to the client’s experience, looks at unhelpful thinking patterns, and helps people try small, achievable changes that build momentum.
The focus is on what works day to day rather than long lectures about theory. People come to her for many issues beyond mood and attention, including anger, addictions, impulsivity, seasonal mood shifts, and challenges around life purpose or identity.
She also works with concerns that co-occur, like mood disorders with anxiety or substance use, and offers support around family problems, guilt, and shame. Sessions may include straightforward skill practice, short problem-solving plans, and collaborative goal setting. Ciarra also brings experience from sport counseling and athlete life coaching to help clients who want performance or motivation support.
She speaks English and practices across formats that fit busy lives.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding the client's perspective and building a trusting conversation. In online sessions this looks like open questions, reflective listening, and working at the client’s pace to clarify goals and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice patterns in thoughts and behaviors and try small experiments to change them. For worries, low mood, or attention struggles, CBT offers practical exercises and step-by-step plans that can be practiced between sessions.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on short-term, achievable goals and concrete steps that move a person forward. It is useful when someone wants quick, targeted changes or a clear plan for the next few weeks.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick techniques that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they adjust the plan as progress is made or priorities change.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be useful for check-ins. Live chat and text sessions work well for brief check-ins, written exercises, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels while keeping the focus on practical steps and progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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