Carri McClellan, LPC, LPC-MHSP

Carri McClellan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and LPC-MHSP with 16 years of experience practicing in Tennessee. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses blended family issues among other related topics.

Carri uses straightforward counseling methods that emphasize practical skills and real-life problem solving. Sessions focus on identifying goals, clarifying next steps, and practicing techniques between meetings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to examine unhelpful thinking patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation. When appropriate she integrates mindfulness strategies to help clients manage intense feelings.

Her background includes work in substance use treatment with both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches. That experience informs how she talks with people about recovery, relapse, and safety planning. Carri also uses trauma-informed methods and may include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when relevant to trauma work.

Conversations in sessions tend to be direct and practical. Clients can expect a focus on skills they can use day to day, such as coping strategies, communication techniques, and ways to reduce stress. Carri attends to attachment and abandonment concerns when they affect relationships and parenting.

She earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Pacific University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The University of Tennessee. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered to people located in Tennessee. To begin, clients follow the site matching process to schedule an initial session.