Carla Bresnahan is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist and Certified Hypnotherapist with over thirty years of experience in the field. She has worked at Orlando Healthcare, Valencia Community College, Orange County Public Schools, the United States Military and since 2003 at St Luke’s Community Counseling Center. She has also served on the board for the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI).
She offers non-judgmental, unbiased and supportive counseling to all clients and found this environment enables clients to discover their own strengths and integrity which allows them to identify and solve life’s challenges.
Whether onsite counseling, life coaching, decrease of anxiety symptoms, supportive counseling or career discovery is requested, the client and Carla work together on the journey. She has always viewed therapy as a mutual endeavor and proceeds in this fashion as most people have an inner wisdom and knowledge of their goals and solutions.
Specialties & Expertise
Specialties
- Anxiety
- Career Counseling
- Coping Skills
Expertise
- Anxiety
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Relationship Issues
- Stress
Therapeutic Approaches
- Adlerian
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Gestalt
- Humanistic / Person-Centered
- Hypnotherapy
- Integrative
- Mindfulness
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic
- Reality Therapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
- Strength-Based
- Transpersonal
- Trauma Focused
Client Focus
- Adults
- Teens (15+)
- Individuals
- Couples
