Carrie Ellis

Carrie Ellis is a Florida LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with five years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel stuck by addressing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, self-esteem struggles, and ADHD. Carrie speaks English and practices in Florida.

She uses a mix of approaches in sessions, including attachment-based and client-centered methods alongside cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness work, EMDR, and elements of dialectical behavior therapy. Conversations are interactive and focused on practical steps. Carrie aims to work with each person to build a plan that fits their goals.

Her background includes work with depression, relationship difficulties, parenting problems, OCD, and trauma-related issues. She also brings experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment questions, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and family of origin problems. Those topics often show up alongside struggles with guilt, shame, and forgiveness.

In sessions she uses strategies to address thought patterns, grounding and regulation skills, and relational repair. EMDR is part of her toolkit when trauma processing is appropriate. She also incorporates mindful practices and skills from DBT to help manage strong emotions and improve daily functioning.

Carrie describes change as requiring courage and effort. She invites people who are ready to take a first step to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session to begin shaping a path forward.

How Carrie uses evidence-based approaches online and by phone

Attachment-based work focuses on relationships and patterns that formed early in life. It looks at how those patterns affect current connections and helps people try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with clear strategies and exercises to change how someone feels and acts. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that uses guided processing to reduce the intensity of distressing memories and reactions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Carrie collaborates with each person to decide which methods to use based on concerns, goals, and preferences. She adjusts techniques as sessions progress so the plan matches what actually helps.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and may allow shorter check-ins or flexible scheduling around work and caregiving. Some formats also reduce the need for video and can be better when bandwidth or a quieter setup matters. Talk through practical needs during the intake so sessions can be arranged to fit everyday routines.