About Carrie
Carrie Kinder is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She offers straightforward support for life changes and emotional overwhelm. Her style is compassionate and down-to-earth, aimed at practical steps people can use right away.
Carrie draws on 15 years of clinical experience in Indiana to guide each person through concrete coping skills. Sessions focus on clear goals like reducing panic, improving mood, managing cravings, or handling a major life shift.
Background and approach
She keeps language simple and focuses on what works day to day. Her work emphasizes building self-compassion and stronger communication. Carrie helps people tackle isolation, emptiness, and relationship strain one step at a time.
She also addresses concerns tied to caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and fertility-related strain. Carrie uses approaches that include mindfulness, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-informed work. These methods are woven into sessions to teach emotional regulation, problem solving, and safer ways to cope with painful memories.
People who want a practical plan will find this approach useful. Carrie helps set achievable steps and adjusts them as progress happens. She aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy lives and real stressors.
Approaches that carry over to online sessions
Dialectical Behavior Therapy helps people learn skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive actions. It offers concrete tools for distress tolerance and stronger emotional control, which can be practiced between sessions.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and feelings without getting swept away by them. This approach supports anxiety and depression by grounding attention and building steady coping habits in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods to match those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress unfolds.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video suits deeper conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reminders. These options make it easier to keep consistent momentum while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English