Carla Fort , LPC

Carla Fort is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 14 years of clinical experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, trauma, mood concerns, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She combines an energetic, compassionate style with a strengths-based focus, helping clients recognize and build on what already works in their lives while addressing patterns that cause distress.

Carla emphasizes client-centered care, listening closely to each person’s story and tailoring her support to their goals. She works with a broad range of concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, grief, parenting and career issues, intimacy and family conflicts, and specific struggles such as abandonment, codependency, control issues, guilt and shame, and social anxiety. Her approach highlights practical tools alongside emotional exploration so clients can make steady, meaningful progress.

Known for celebrating even small gains and bringing warmth and lightness into the work, she values humor and positivity as part of healing. Carla also brings multicultural awareness from living and traveling in multiple countries, and she aims to respect and integrate clients’ cultural backgrounds into therapy. Her practice centers on empowering people to move toward clearer purpose, stronger self-love, and healthier relationships.

Therapeutic approaches and online care with Carla Fort

Carla Fort integrates several therapeutic approaches to meet a range of needs. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental environment where clients lead the pace and focus of sessions while the therapist offers empathy and validation - it is useful for building self-esteem, exploring values, and strengthening personal agency. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify and adjust unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns. Existential Therapy explores meaning, choice, and personal responsibility, supporting clients facing life transitions, questions of purpose, or issues related to identity.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Carla works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, preferences, and circumstances, adapting techniques over time as progress unfolds. She aims to empower clients to experiment with different strategies and choose what resonates.

Online therapy with Carla can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules and differing comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain consistent care from home or work and to access support when in-person visits are not possible, while still working with licensed professionals and therapists to move toward meaningful change.