Mari Carter , LPC

Mari Carter is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee with five years of clinical experience supporting people facing addiction, unresolved trauma, grief, anxiety, and depression. She emphasizes restoring personal agency - helping clients rediscover choice, voice, and direction while teaching practical coping skills and connecting them with peer support when appropriate.

Mari blends motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and solution-focused techniques to create individualized treatment plans that match each person's needs. Her counseling style is warm, respectful, and nonjudgmental, with an emphasis on guiding clients through recovery from substance use, co-occurring mood and panic symptoms, post-traumatic stress, relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, and issues around guilt, shame, and self-esteem. She also supports survivors of sexual assault and abuse, women’s issues, and members of the LGBT community.

Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible access to care. Mari holds Tennessee license TN LPC 4877; LPC denotes Licensed Professional Counselor, a credential earned after graduate training and supervised clinical experience. She is not currently accepting new clients.

Remote Therapeutic Approaches for Recovery and Growth

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a supportive, nonjudgmental environment where clients are encouraged to explore their feelings and make their own choices. This approach is helpful for clients working through grief, self-esteem challenges, relationship issues, or the emotional aftermath of trauma.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify and change patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety, depression, panic, and mood difficulties. CBT typically involves practical strategies and skill-building to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative method that meets people where they are and strengthens motivation for change, especially useful for addiction, ambivalence about recovery, or making difficult life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Mari works collaboratively with each person to determine which combination of methods fits their goals, needs, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility by allowing sessions through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into busy schedules, reducing travel time, and providing consistent access to licensed professionals and therapists when support is needed.