Carie Brown

Carie Brown, LSCSW, uses client-centered and evidence-informed methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, mood shifts, and parenting challenges. She brings a straightforward approach and aims to make therapy practical and understandable for worried parents and caregivers.

She has worked in social work since 2000 and completed a Bachelor of Social Work in 2000 at Fort Hays State University. She then earned a Master of Social Work in 2003 from Newman University in Wichita. Carie has nineteen years of documented experience in behavioral health settings and has provided services in both hospital and community mental health environments.

Her practice includes helping with depression, bipolar mood changes, panic and anxiety, addictions, and coping with major life transitions. She also supports people facing family conflict, adoption and foster care issues, postpartum mood concerns, and challenges related to attention and impulsivity. Intellectual disability is listed among her additional focus areas.

Carie describes her work as collaborative and practical. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to place the person's experience at the center of sessions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address patterns of thinking and behavior, and EMDR for people processing traumatic memories.

Carie holds a Kansas Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker credential, abbreviated as KS LSCSW. Parents and caregivers looking for help with communication problems, parenting strain, or relationship and intimacy questions may find her approach direct and hands-on.

How her approaches guide online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s perspective at the core of sessions, with the therapist listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client. This approach helps when someone needs support being heard, making decisions, or finding their own path through parenting or relationship stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, panic, depression, and mood shifts.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an approach used to help people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. It can be useful for those working through trauma or post-traumatic stress concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the person or parent to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. That plan can change as progress is made or priorities shift.

Confirm current session options before booking, since formats were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Talk with the therapist during the matching process about what will work best for scheduling, session length, and how to structure therapy around family life.