About Sontra
Sontra Carmouche is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana who uses a client-centered style to help people build confidence and find direction. She focuses on practical steps that fit each person’s life. Her approach is straightforward and respectful of the individual’s goals.
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow a person’s lead and highlight strengths. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to change habits or patterns.
Background and approach
Solution-Focused Therapy supports short-term goal setting and tracking progress. Sontra works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career questions, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, process addictions, and intimacy issues.
Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are aimed at helping people find realistic next steps. Conversations tend to be collaborative and practical, with room to problem-solve and try new strategies.
Sontra encourages clear goals and small, achievable changes. She brings five years of clinical experience as an LCSW. People who choose her can expect a calm, goal-oriented style that values their expertise about their own lives.
Work together to set priorities and make changes that matter.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. Online sessions let the therapist respond to what matters most and help build on a person’s strengths. This approach works well for concerns like anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions.Motivational Interviewing helps when someone feels unsure about change. In virtual sessions the therapist asks open questions and supports the person to find their own reasons for change. This is useful for addiction, process addictions, and habit change.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, concrete goals. Online work can include brief check-ins and tracking progress between sessions to keep momentum. It’s helpful for career decisions, coping with life changes, and short-term problem solving.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. The focus is on collaboration and practical steps rather than a single fixed plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for deeper conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or day-to-day support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English