About Carrie
Carrie Deese is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who practices from Tennessee and brings five years of professional experience to her work. She holds a Master of Social Work and uses a practical, conversational style in sessions. Carrie aims to make the first steps toward help feel straightforward and manageable.
Carrie focuses on relationship and family concerns along with trauma and abuse, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people dealing with attachment difficulties, body image struggles, caregiver stress, and workplace challenges.
Background and approach
She has worked with issues that include domestic violence, sexual assault, postpartum and pregnancy-related concerns, and challenges faced by first responders. Her approach is open and collaborative. Carrie leans on strengths people already have and helps them build on those.
She uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral ideas, motivational interviewing, and attachment theory when those fit the situation. Sessions with Carrie aim to be interactive and straightforward. She will listen to what matters most to the person and build practical steps from there.
For children, she has used play and art-based methods when that approach matches the child’s needs. Carrie believes clients are the experts on their own lives and that therapy is a shared process. She welcomes questions and tries to keep sessions focused on clear goals and workable changes.
Evidence-informed approaches and flexible online care
Carrie often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build practical skills to change reactions and mood. This approach is useful for relationship stress, grief, and day-to-day coping.She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to look at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional responses. That perspective can help with attachment concerns, partner patterns, and some forms of trauma recovery.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carrie will listen to your goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed in a collaborative way. She treats the selection of techniques as a team decision based on what feels helpful.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is preferred. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed without being on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, follow-up, or when written communication feels easier to use. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, parenting schedule, or recovery plan while keeping the focus on progress and reachable goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English