About Carrie
Carrie Fraser draws on a collaborative, person-centered style to help people facing stress, addiction, depression, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Tennessee with 28 years of experience.
Background and approach
Carrie speaks plainly and offers steady guidance while people sort through painful emotions and difficult decisions. Her approach begins with listening.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they are feeling and what they need. From there she mixes methods to match each person's situation, using practical tools to build coping skills and improve communication.
Carrie has long experience with substance use and recovery, codependency, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, intimacy concerns, career transitions, and the long shadow of trauma and loss.
These areas often overlap, and she helps people untangle them step by step. Therapy sessions combine short-term problem solving and deeper work on patterns that cause repeated pain.
She uses goal-focused conversations alongside strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. The plan adjusts as progress is made, keeping things practical and relevant.
People meet Carrie for many reasons, including feeling stuck, managing mood shifts, or facing big transitions. Her style is patient and direct, aiming to help people move toward clearer choices and steadier days.
If someone wants a calm guide through change, she offers steady support and real-world tools.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience without judgment. It helps people feel heard, clarify values, and identify changes they want to make. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Motivational Interviewing uses guided conversation to strengthen a person's own reasons for change and is useful for addictions and ambivalence about life choices.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Carrie will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. The plan is adjusted over time so therapy stays relevant and useful rather than rigid or one-size-fits-all.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is low or a camera is not wanted, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit sessions into busy schedules and different life situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English