- Years in practice
- 12
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas, Oregon
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Grief
About Carisa
Carisa Givens, LPC, offers practical, down-to-earth support for people facing parenting pressure and other life stressors. She focuses on clear goals, steady communication, and helping clients find workable steps forward. Her style is warm and interactive and meant to put people at ease when things feel overwhelming.
Carisa has twelve years of clinical experience and practices in Texas. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, grief, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Parenting concerns and blended family issues are a frequent focus, along with relationship and intimacy-related difficulties. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Client-Centered methods. She uses these approaches to help people notice unhelpful patterns, make values-based choices, and build practical skills that fit daily life.
Sessions often include real-world strategies and short exercises to practice between meetings. Carisa works with people navigating career stress, family of origin wounds, communication problems, codependency, and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She also supports those coping with hospice and end-of-life concerns and complex emotions like guilt and shame.
Conversations aim to be straightforward, respectful, and focused on what matters most to each person. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she accepts international clients. Prospective clients complete an intake questionnaire and schedule sessions online.
Carisa emphasizes collaboration and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
What Carisa works with
Everything Carisa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Carisa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Carisa lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters most to you and taking small steps toward those values. It helps with anxiety, parenting stress, and decisions that feel stuck by teaching practical actions rather than aiming for total control of thoughts.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers simple skill-building to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and anger by practicing new thinking and behavior strategies between sessions.
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental conversation that centers the client's experience. This approach helps people feel heard and gradually build confidence to try different ways of coping and relating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then adapt methods to fit the client's needs. That collaborative process guides choices about which techniques to emphasize.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy parenting schedules or during work hours.
Questions people ask about Carisa
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with parenting stress, family challenges, anxiety, depression, grief, career strain, and related issues like caregiver stress and codependency.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive, combining practical skills with reflective conversation to help clients make small, steady changes.
How long has she been practicing?
She brings twelve years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns and family-related stressors.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC) and practices in Texas, with documentation listing TX LPC and OR LPC.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she also accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the client's needs.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription 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 then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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