Carol "Carrie" Horne

Carol "Carrie" Horne is a Maine LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 40 years of clinical experience helping adults with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue. She frames therapy around practical conversation and steady support to address what feels most urgent in day-to-day life. Carrie focuses on clear, manageable steps rather than abstract promises, and she includes life purpose work when it fits a client's goals.

Her sessions tend to be conversational and goal-focused. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and reflect back what matters to each person. She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, concrete changes that can ease pressure or create space for new choices.

Carrie brings cognitive behavioral tools when patterns of thought and behavior create recurring distress. She uses mindfulness practices to help people notice and interrupt automatic reactions to stress. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-term patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages.

With decades of practice in Maine, she often supports people coping with caregiver stress, guilt and shame, panic attacks, mood concerns, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety. Sessions are aimed at helping people build coping skills, reduce overwhelm, and consider what matters next in their lives.

Sessions are conducted in English. International clients are not accepted. Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, users are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Approaches in remote sessions and how they help

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the client. It helps people clarify feelings and priorities by keeping the conversation focused on their experience. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, panic and mood concerns. Mindfulness Therapy trains noticing habits of reactivity and practicing short attention exercises to reduce immediate stress and increase options for responding.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. That may mean mixing practical CBT techniques with client-centered conversation and mindfulness practice until a good fit emerges.

The specific session formats offered by this therapist are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow a shorter check-in when schedules require it, or reduce travel time so therapy fits alongside caregiving or work. These practical benefits can help people maintain regular sessions while they sort out what matters next.