Caralee Crary, LPC
Practical, collaborative counseling for parents and relationships
Explore online therapy options- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Caralee
Caralee Crary is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years of experience in Pennsylvania. She focuses on helping people navigate parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, and mood concerns. Her style is collaborative and straightforward; she works with clients to set goals and build everyday skills.
Caralee combines understanding of thoughts and behaviors with attention to deeper emotional patterns. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods and attachment-based ideas to help people make practical changes.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to include clear feedback and work on skills you can use between meetings. Parents often come to her for help with communication, parenting strain, and balancing relationships and responsibilities. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction issues, self-esteem struggles, and questions about sexuality and kink culture.
Caralee addresses both immediate problems and longer-term life direction concerns. Her manner is nonjudgmental and calm. She aims to create a space where clients can sort through difficult feelings and try new ways of coping.
Caralee values collaboration and treats the therapeutic relationship as a teamwork process. Outside of practice she is married and has two children. She enjoys reading, gardening, music, yoga and walking, and films.
Caralee offers services in English and provides several online session formats to fit different schedules.
What Caralee works with
Everything Caralee lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Caralee helps people with.
- 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
Approaches Caralee lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Practical approaches for online parenting and relationship work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life-direction questions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection patterns affect current relationships and parenting. It helps people understand emotional triggers and improve closeness and communication.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the client's needs and adjust the plan over time based on what is working.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth work and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text are practical for quick updates, coping skills between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy parenting and work schedules, and to keep therapy consistent even when life gets hectic.
Questions people ask about Caralee
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, grief, trauma and addiction-related struggles, among other areas.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She offers direct feedback and practical skills work alongside attention to underlying emotional patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of clinical experience working with adults on relationship, mood, parenting, and life-direction issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication 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, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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