Carla Bensie

Carla Bensie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 11 years of experience helping people manage major life shifts and emotional strain. She works with concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, and issues related to intimacy and self-esteem. Carla aims to make the first step easier by offering steady, nonjudgmental support during difficult changes.

Carla creates a space where clients can speak openly about their thoughts and feelings. She focuses on practical steps that people can use between sessions. Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented, with room to process painful events or grief.

Her background includes work with eating and food-related issues, bipolar concerns, and substance use problems. Carla also addresses family of origin struggles, codependency, abandonment, guilt, and shame. She brings experience supporting people facing aging, hospice, and end-of-life concerns.

Carla uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness practices teach calm and present-moment awareness. She also draws on trauma-focused methods to work gently with past wounds.

Sessions are offered in English and she is licensed in West Virginia. International clients are accepted. People interested in starting are invited to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How Carla’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Carla often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on clear, practical skills that someone can try between sessions to feel steadier. She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Carla will listen to a person’s goals and concerns and suggest which methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve during therapy.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, cut out travel time, and offer shorter check-ins when needed. It can also allow people to use skills learned in sessions in real time, for example practicing mindfulness between meetings or reviewing CBT homework right after a session.