Carleen Waller, LPC

Carleen Waller is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience working with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices in Texas and focuses on practical strategies that people can use day to day. Carleen keeps sessions direct and compassionate so clients can make steady progress.

Her background combines talk therapy with tools drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness. She helps people notice thoughts and habits that get in the way, then experiments with changes that reduce distress. Sessions often include short exercises, goal setting, and concrete skills to try between meetings.

Carleen pays close attention to relationship patterns and communication problems. She supports people dealing with intimacy issues, family conflict, parenting strain, and challenges tied to career or life purpose. She also addresses trauma, body image concerns, and struggles like panic attacks or social anxiety.

Her style is collaborative and respectful. Clients set the pace and Carleen tailors work to each person’s needs, using client-centered and solution-focused techniques when helpful. Motivational interviewing is added when people are weighing change or need support building new routines.

Carleen speaks English and offers sessions in formats that fit busy lives. Her focus is on helping people build coping skills, improve relationships, and find clearer direction through manageable steps.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Carleen commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people manage difficult thoughts and bodily stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of responding, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made. The client’s experience guides whether sessions lean more toward skills practice, reflective conversation, or short-term solutions.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports frequent, brief contact between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility, help maintain consistency, and make it simpler to try new skills in real time.