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Cara Damier, LMHC

  • Experience8 years
  • LocationFlorida
  • Focus areasStress and Anxiety, Relationship, and Trauma and abuse
  • Therapy approachesInternal Family Systems and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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About Cara

Cara Damier is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people move from surviving to thriving by addressing the roots of their difficulties rather than only managing symptoms.

Background and approach

Cara emphasizes a grounded, compassionate environment where clients can explore deeper layers of stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, and self-esteem concerns while developing resilience and confidence for future challenges. Her work blends several evidence-based methods to match each person’s needs, drawing on Internal Family Systems, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, client-centered principles, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

She also offers integration of psychological work with Christian theology when requested. Cara’s aim is to guide clients toward lasting change through a holistic, tailored process that fosters growth, stability, and more effective coping across life transitions and ongoing stressors.

Integrating Approaches for Online Healing

Internal Family Systems helps people understand and dialogue with different inner parts of themselves to address internal conflicts and heal from trauma or chronic emotional patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and building psychological flexibility so clients can act in ways that matter to them even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns influence current connections and helps people build more supported ways of relating and regulating emotions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work and Cara treats this as a collaborative process. She will help clients identify which methods best match their concerns, goals, and preferences and adapt techniques as therapy progresses to ensure the approach remains useful and relevant.

Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain consistent care during life transitions, coordinate around work or family commitments, and access therapy from locations outside of the therapist’s office area.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
Cara works with many common and complex issues including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, depression, grief, parenting and career concerns, and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She emphasizes a grounded, compassionate space and uses a holistic, tailored approach that helps clients get to the root of their difficulties while promoting resilience and calm.
What is her professional background?
She holds a master’s degree in counselor education and brings eight years of experience including work with anxiety and trauma and leading anxiety groups.
What credentials and location should I know about?
Cara is licensed as an LMHC with Florida license number FL LMHC MH20171 and practices in Florida.
Does she work with clients who speak other languages or live abroad?
Sessions are conducted in English, and she does accept international clients for online work.
Which session formats are offered?
Consultations and ongoing sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference.
How is pricing handled for therapy?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling a session according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemDepression

Also works with

Family conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesSleeping disordersParenting issuesCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesCancerCaregiver issues and stressCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPhobiasPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyGottman MethodJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

8+ years

Licensed

Florida

Languages

English