About Clara
Clara Solomon-Carmack is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with six years of clinical experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or struggles with compulsive behaviors. Her approach is direct and compassionate so people can begin to feel more steady and able to cope.
Clara often combines attention to the body with talk-based work. That means noticing how tension, breath, and physical habits show up alongside thoughts and emotions.
Background and approach
She uses that information to help people interrupt unhelpful cycles and build new coping skills that feel doable day to day. Her practice covers concerns such as addictions, problematic internet use, gambling, and eating or exercise worries. She also helps people deal with relationship pain, attachment issues, abandonment and adoption-related challenges, and the stress that comes with caregiving or chronic illness.
Sessions aim to be warm and non-judgmental. Clara focuses on building trust so clients can speak frankly about shame, guilt, and the patterns that keep them stuck. Together they work on practical strategies - breathing, grounding, skills from cognitive-behavioral and dialectical approaches, and steps to change behaviors.
Care is tailored to each person’s goals. Clara meets adolescents, college-age clients, and adults where they are and supports steady progress toward clearer thinking, healthier habits, and more manageable emotions.
How somatic and relational approaches work online
Clara integrates somatic awareness with attachment-informed and client-centered methods to help people feel more grounded and connected. Somatic work focuses on bodily signals like breath, posture, and tension to spot how feelings show up physically and to teach simple regulation exercises that reduce overwhelm. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people notice how those patterns shape reactions and safety in relationships. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, accepting relationship where the person sets the pace and priorities.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Clara collaborates with each person to decide what makes sense for their goals, symptoms, and daily life. She often blends methods and checks in regularly to adjust techniques so they are helpful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video lets Clara guide breathing or grounding and observe nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging offer brief check-ins, skill reminders, or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep steady momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English