Carrie Holland-Lee

Carrie Holland-Lee is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland with 11 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, and life transitions. She emphasizes that each person knows their own story best and brings their own strengths to change. Carrie offers a calm, respectful space for people to start making small, meaningful shifts.

In sessions she listens first and then helps clients set practical goals. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the individual, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going. Her approach mixes listening with clear, usable tools people can try between meetings.

Carrie works with concerns such as depression, self-esteem, intimacy-related struggles, sleep problems, and parenting stress. She also supports people facing prejudice and discrimination, LGBT issues, and the navigation of non-traditional relationship structures like polyamory and kink-aware topics.

People can expect straightforward conversation, gentle challenge, and collaborative goal setting. Carrie focuses on helping clients build skills they can use in daily life, from communication techniques to coping strategies for anxiety and anger.

Her practice recognizes that career pressures and life changes often affect mental health, so she includes practical steps for balancing work and wellbeing. To begin, prospective clients are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

How Carrie Uses Client-Centered and CBT Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following what matters to the person in front of the therapist. In practice this means sessions begin with the client describing their goals and challenges, while the therapist reflects and helps clarify what feels most important to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers clear exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and anger management.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carrie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. That process can include trying client-centered listening alongside CBT exercises, and then adjusting based on what helps most.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the therapist's current session options before booking since specific formats are not listed in the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter or more frequent check-ins when helpful. Some people prefer not using video at times, while others like seeing a therapist face to face on screen; Carrie can discuss what will work best for scheduling, focus, and comfort during the first appointments.