About Cara
Cara Damier is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings eight years of clinical work to her practice in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Cara aims to create calm, steady sessions where people can feel heard and begin to make practical changes.
Cara uses a mix of approaches to meet each person's needs. She leans on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance and commitment methods to clarify values and next steps.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ideas to build trust and safety in the therapy relationship. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused. Cara helps people move from coping to growing by identifying patterns, building new skills, and practicing small changes that fit daily life.
She also addresses parenting strain, caregiver stress, career transitions, sleep problems, and compassion fatigue. People who want faith-integrated support can request counseling that weaves psychological work with Christian perspectives. Cara adapts the mix of methods to match a person’s beliefs and goals without assuming a single approach will fit everyone.
Her work emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. She helps people build resilience and confidence so they can face future challenges with more ease. Cara welcomes international clients and conduct sessions in English.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and homework that are easy to do between sessions and work well in video or phone sessions.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions. It combines mindfulness and goal work to help people move forward even when tough emotions remain, and it adapts well to chat or messaging for quick check-ins.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Cara will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means adjusting techniques and pacing as the relationship develops so the plan feels useful and doable.
Online formats make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, coaching between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English