Caralee Crary is a licensed professional counselor who brings 20 years of experience to her practice in Pennsylvania.
01About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a licensed professional counselor who brings 20 years of experience to her practice in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, low self-esteem, depression, and grief. She also supports those facing addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and concerns related to sexual identity and LGBT matters.
Her background blends talk-based and skills-focused methods. She uses approaches that address thoughts and behavior as well as attachment and emotional patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, build coping skills, and clarify life goals. Work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs. Caralee helps people sort through relationship struggles such as communication problems, infidelity, jealousy, and intimacy differences.
She also addresses more specific concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, and challenges around kink or alternative sexual cultures. Fertility issues, dissociation, and compassion fatigue are among other focused areas she will listen to and help you navigate. Her style is direct but respectful.
She offers feedback and practical tools alongside chances to reflect on deeper feelings and life patterns. Parents who want help with the strain of raising children or with family conflict can find straightforward strategies and emotional support. Outside of therapy she enjoys reading, gardening, music, yoga or walking, and films.
Her approach is grounded, empathetic, and aimed at helping people move toward clearer choices and more manageable everyday life.
02Credentials
- LPC (Pennsylvania)
- License PC005050 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1417195694 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Caralee lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
Methods Caralee names
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
These are the methods Caralee names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and to take actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, low motivation, and finding clearer life direction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build safer, more trusting interactions. This approach is useful for intimacy issues, communication problems, and attachment concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Caralee will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and will adjust the plan as needed based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video helps preserve face-to-face conversation. Phone can be easier when less bandwidth is available or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief, ongoing contact between sessions and can fit into busy days. These options let people match the format to their schedule and comfort while working on the same goals they would in an office setting.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does Caralee help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy problems. Additional areas include trauma, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, and LGBT-related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style mixes talk and practical tools. She offers direct feedback and helps people build coping skills while also looking at deeper patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and interpersonal concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Pennsylvania.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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