Carrie Gajowski, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for relationship and anxiety concerns
About Carrie
Carrie Gajowski helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship pain, and questions about sexuality or self-worth. She focuses on issues like LGBT concerns, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Carrie addresses complex topics such as codependency, communication problems, and healing after emotional or traumatic experiences. Carrie is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in California.
She keeps sessions focused and practical. People can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through what feels overwhelming and to build small, usable steps forward.
Her approach draws from several therapy styles to match each person's needs. Carrie uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people shift unhelpful thoughts and commit to meaningful actions.
She also incorporates client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to understand how past experiences shape present patterns. Sessions cover concrete skills like improving communication, setting boundaries, and reducing anxiety symptoms.
Carrie also helps people navigate identity and sexuality questions, explore forgiveness and guilt, and work through feelings of isolation. She pays attention to relationship patterns without assuming a single cause.
With seven years of clinical experience, Carrie blends practical tools with open listening. Her practice offers multiple session formats to fit different schedules, and she helps people find steps they can try between appointments.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and making changes that matter. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and uses empathic listening to strengthen self-understanding and decision-making.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carrie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that fit the situation. The therapist adapts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant to what the person wants to change.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation from anywhere in California. Phone sessions can be a better fit when lower bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a work break or to get ongoing support between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep consistent progress while maintaining routine responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California, Arizona
- Languages
- English