About Carrie
Carrie Bican is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people handle stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. She writes simply and listens closely to learn what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Her approach aims to build practical skills people can use day to day. Carrie earned a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Marital and Family Therapy and holds a California LMFT license.
Early work in school counseling and as a primary clinician in psychiatric settings shaped her understanding of complex family dynamics and persistent mood concerns. She has nine years of clinical experience.
She prefers a person-centered style and mixes methods to fit each person's needs. That can mean using attachment ideas to look at relationship patterns or cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused work are woven in when useful. Sessions tend to focus on concrete skills - coping tools, emotion regulation, and clearer communication.
Carrie also helps clients build life skills, increase self-awareness, and manage motivation or adjustment difficulties. She pays attention to how past family experiences affect current patterns.
Her tone is practical and nonjudgmental. She invites people to explore different perspectives and to try tools that feel doable.
If someone wants a collaborative, skills-focused approach that still honors personal meaning, Carrie aims to offer that space.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections and emotional responses. This approach helps people understand why they react a certain way in close relationships and offers ways to shift those patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches practical exercises to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first based on goals, needs, and preferences. That may look like starting with skills from CBT, then adding attachment-focused reflection or mindfulness exercises if they seem helpful. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick ways to share updates, ask brief questions, or check in between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to practice new skills between meetings.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English