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Carel Camerer, LMHC

Stress, Anxiety LGBTQ+ Relationships Grief Depression
Video Phone Live Chat Messaging

About me

I am a licensed mental health counselor in Washington state, where I have practiced for over 30 years, both clinically and in private practice. During this time I co-created and worked with The Center for Individual and Family Counseling for 11 years. I have worked with ages 3 -98 years old. A large portion of my work has focused on assisting clients with issues such as relationship conflict, and communication, parenting, life transitions, anxiety, depression, stress management, trauma PTSD, and Grief. Currently my therapy practice is focused on individuals and couples who are ready to heal the past by learning to live fully in the present moment.

Methods and Techniques
Finding the courage to accept, tolerate and negotiate the unknown, unpleasant and unwanted takes a kind of radical acceptance. Happily the causes and conditions necessary to achieve healing- presence are absolutely innate and always within your reach. However, ones own wisdom and compassion, although present from the start, are often buried beneath a lifetime of pain, then deeply covered by an elaborate system of coping and defense. Re- Connecting to your own true and vital nature is both a process and a practice. Your success depends upon our mutual interest in discerning the difference between what happened to you, how you coped, the meaning you made, and who you actually are.
Since our problems so easily get mistaken for ourselves all methods and techniques are oriented toward uncovering, discovering and reconnecting you to the person who has lived through these problems without ever becoming them. My counseling methods include cognitive-emotive therapy, intra-psychic mapping, psycho-education, family of origin, mindfulness, EMDR (eye movement desensitization reprocessing) ETT (emotional transformative therapy), EFT (emotional freedom technique) and most importantly, Humor.

Course of Treatment

“ Therapy represents a human relationship as well as a common research” Karen Horney,

The course of treatment, including both frequency and duration depends on each client’s needs. If you are in crisis or are working on deeply embedded issues significantly impacting your life, we may schedule weekly sessions. If your needs are less urgent, many find that every two weeks works well. While some prefer monthly or even quarterly check-ins. The duration of treatment may range from a few sessions for consultation and short-term problem solving to several months for adjustment or grief issues or long term therapy to uproot deeper issues. An initial plan for your course of treatment will be discussed during our first session.




Specialties


Stress Management
Anxiety

Relationship/intimacy issues, SLGBTQ, non-binary

Trauma and abuse

Self esteem

Life Transitions 

Grief/Loss
Stress
Anxiety, Depression

Parenting



MESSAGING 
PHONE 
VIDEO/ZOOM

Licensing
LH 00005011 Expiration Date 04/24/2021

Professional experience

3yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety LGBTQ+ Relationships Grief Depression

Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Adoption and Foster Care, Blended Family Issues, Caregiver Issues and Stress, Commitment Issues, Divorce and Separation, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Guilt and Shame, HIV / AIDS, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Isolation / Loneliness, Life Purpose, Midlife Crisis, Military and Veterans Issues, Panic Disorder and Panic Attacks, Polyamory / Nonmonogamous Relationships, Post-traumatic Stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Sexual Assault and Abuse, Sexuality, Traumatic Brain Injury, Women's Issues, Young Adult Issues

Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, Somatic Therapy

Services offered

Video
Phone
Live Chat
Messaging

License information

WA LMHC LH 00005011

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Carel Camerer. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.

Carel is extremely helpful and insightful!!

Written on Feb 11, 2021 after therapy with Carel for 2 months on issues concerning relationship issues, and family conflicts

She is genuine, caring, kind and helpful. Empathetic and a listener.

Written on Nov 09, 2020 after therapy with Carel for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd