Dr. Carrie Willey, LPCC, LPC

Texas · 36 years in practice

Dr. Carrie Willey is a licensed counselor with more than three decades of experience in mental health care.

License and registration

LPC, Texas: 64018 · expires April 2027
LPCC, New Mexico: CCMH3047 · expires September 2027
NPI: 1609878412 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 36
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Carrie

Dr. Carrie Willey is a licensed counselor with more than three decades of experience in mental health care. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and has built a long career supporting people with addictions, trauma, grief, eating concerns, mood problems, and relationship stress.

She practices from Texas and brings a straightforward, practical style to sessions. Her background includes leadership and clinical roles at specialized treatment centers focused on addiction and eating disorders.

Background and approach

She has worked with diverse cultural groups and provided assessments and treatment in tribal communities. This range of experience informs a flexible way of working that adapts to each person’s situation. In sessions she combines existential ideas with practical tools.

She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different behaviors. Somatic work is used when body awareness can help reduce tension and overwhelming reactions. She favors active engagement, offering short assignments to practice new skills between meetings.

The goal is to build on a person’s strengths, reduce patterns that cause harm, and widen options for handling stress, cravings, or intense emotions. Conversations are direct but respectful, and progress is tracked in simple, concrete steps. Outside of work she is an avid bicyclist and values a spiritual view of life that honors many paths.

Her approach mixes life experience, practical skill-building, and a focus on meaning to help people move forward.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Carrie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Addictions
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Eating disorders
Depression
Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Abandonment
Aging and geriatric issues
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Codependency
Communication problems
Dissociation
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Eating and food-related issues
Family of origin issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Post-traumatic stress
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Sexual assault and abuse
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Carrie names

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Online support

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Existential Therapy helps people consider meaning, choices, and values when life feels uncertain. It focuses on personal responsibility and how someone wants to live, which can help with grief, midlife shifts, and questions about purpose.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is about noticing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and trying small experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and stress by giving concrete tools to practice between sessions.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and reducing self-destructive behaviors. DBT-style techniques can be helpful for emotional regulation, impulsivity, and coping with intense urges.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what works.

Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction while avoiding travel. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing reflection between scheduled meetings.

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Questions people ask

What concerns does she commonly address?

She works with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and food-related issues, depression, anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, and career concerns.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

She uses a practical, straightforward approach that mixes existential perspective with hands-on techniques from CBT and DBT. Sessions often include simple assignments to try between meetings.

What is her professional background?

She has 36 years of experience and has worked in clinical leadership at treatment centers for addictions and eating disorders, as well as providing services in tribal health settings.

What credentials and location are listed?

She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices from Texas with professional history that includes New Mexico clinical work.

Which languages are supported and are international clients taken?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on the chosen format.

How are costs and payment handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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