Carrie Cooper, LPCC, LCMHC

Carrie Cooper is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with more than two decades of experience helping adults manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and trauma. She uses practical, evidence-informed methods to help people cope with depression, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, grief, and major life changes. Carrie works from Utah and speaks English.

Carrie draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a core approach to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also uses client-centered techniques to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people direct their own progress. Mindfulness and trauma-focused tools are used when needed to calm the body and process difficult memories.

Her counseling style is straightforward and hopeful. Sessions focus on clear goals, small steps, and skills that can be practiced between meetings. She supports people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, and caregiver stress with concrete strategies to manage energy and boundaries.

Carrie has worked with people dealing with eating concerns, body image, substance use, and co-occurring conditions. She also addresses attachment and family of origin issues, abandonment, codependency, and divorce or separation. Her background includes helping clients navigate chronic illness, chronic pain, and the emotional strain that comes with long-term health conditions.

Clients can expect collaborative planning that fits their life. Carrie aims to make change feel manageable by breaking goals into short-term steps and tracking progress over time. Her approach is practical, compassionate, and tailored to each person.

How Carrie’s approaches translate to online therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify patterns of thought that keep them stuck and try new behaviors to change outcomes. Online sessions can include thought records, behavior experiments, and homework reviews just as in-person work would, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and letting the person guide the pace and goals. This approach helps people feel heard and respected during video or phone sessions, supporting progress on relationship concerns, self-esteem, and life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts the plan over time based on what works. That collaborative stance continues in remote sessions.

Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face for skills practice and emotional processing. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn’t convenient or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, a way to track progress between sessions, and options for those who prefer typing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same therapeutic tools and goals.