Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- ADHD
How Carrie works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Alabama
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Carrie
Carrie Mega is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama who focuses on helping people manage anger, stress, anxiety, and relationship strain. She works with adults and adolescents to build practical skills they can use day to day. Her tone in sessions is relaxed and interactive, which can help people feel heard and understood quickly.
She brings 16 years of counseling experience to each session. That background includes supporting people facing depression, trauma and emotional abuse, parenting challenges, ADHD, grief, and career stress.
Background and approach
She also assists with intimacy concerns, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and questions about self-esteem. Carrie favors straightforward methods that highlight a person's strengths. She blends strength-based ideas with cognitive-behavioral and solution-focused techniques.
In practice this means identifying useful coping strategies, testing new skills between sessions, and building small, manageable goals. Sessions aim to avoid stigma and focus on clear steps forward. Carrie tailors plans to each person rather than using one-size-fits-all approaches.
She encourages active collaboration so people leave with tools they can try right away. Her approach is geared toward practical progress. People who want concrete strategies for handling anger, mood shifts, or relationship conflict may find this style helpful.
Carrie aims to make therapy a place where people feel respected and able to speak honestly.
What Carrie works with
Everything Carrie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Carrie's practice.
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Carrie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques in simple, practical ways. Cognitive-behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, anger, and depression because it breaks problems into clear steps people can practice between sessions.She also draws on strength-based methods that highlight a person's existing abilities and resources. That means sessions include identifying what already works and expanding those skills to handle stress, parenting pressures, or relationship tensions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Carrie treats it as collaborative. She will work with each person to choose and adapt techniques based on goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people do fuller conversations and see nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief reflections, coping prompts, or when messaging fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills between meetings.
Questions people ask about Carrie
What concerns does Carrie commonly address?
She helps people with anger, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and parenting issues, ADHD, grief, intimacy-related concerns, bipolar disorder, self-esteem, career strain, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Carrie uses a laid-back and interactive style that emphasizes respect and compassion. She focuses on practical skills and short-term goals using strength-based, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused techniques.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Carrie has 16 years of experience working in counseling settings and with a wide range of concerns and age groups.
Where is she licensed and located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Alabama and practices from that state.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
Carrie provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as options for working together.
How does billing and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.