Carmen has giving me confidence that I never had to open up to others. Her approach has been very positive and she is always there for me.
Carmen Chaney, LIMHP
Experienced mental health professional
Provides online counseling through BetterHelp
At a glance
Carmen is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.
- 4.5 stars
- Clients are very satisfied with Carmen. View 71 reviews
- Great news, Carmen is accepting new clients!
- She is normally fully-booked.
- Speaks English
- Offers Telehealth visits
- Licensed in Nebraska
Recent reviews
Carmen is caring, accepting, and supportive. She helps me see things in different ways, which is VERY helpful!! She is also very flexible and great at understanding underlying things as well.
More about Carmen
- 14 years' experience
- Female
- LIMHP
I am a LIMHP and have been a therapist for about 15 years. I specialize in working with folks with anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, family situations, interpersonal situations, and overwhelming emotions.
My counseling style is eclectic and direct. I believe in treating everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and I don't believe in stigmatizing labels. My approach combines cognitive-behavioral, dialectical-behavioral, and mindfulness therapy. I will tailor our dialog and treatment plan to meet your unique and specific needs.
It takes courage to seek for a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. If you are ready to take that step I am here to support and empower you on your journey.
I do want to share with you that I am dyslexic, and I have found that live chatting is not a way I can be really effective as a therapist. I am comfortable communicating via messaging, but unfortunately I am not able to offer live chat. I prefer to offer both live phone, and live video sessions.
I look forward to working with you!
Specialties
Treatment Approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Licenses
Carmen Chaney's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1033470109.
- LIMHP · Nebraska · 1402 · Expires September 2026
About online counseling
- Affordable.
- Pay a low flat fee.
- Convenient.
- Do it at your own time and at your own pace. Communicate whenever you feel it's needed.
- Available now.
- There is no waiting list and no calls to make. Simply fill out a short questionnaire and send your first message.
Online counseling, also known as teletherapy, is a method of delivering mental health services through digital means such as video conferencing, phone calls, or messaging platforms. It can be an ideal option for individuals who have difficulty accessing traditional therapy due to geographical distance, time constraints, or personal preferences like privacy and comfort. Many people find it easier to open up from the familiarity of their own space.
Teletherapy has been found to be highly effective, with studies showing that it can produce similar outcomes to in-person therapy, particularly for issues like anxiety, depression, and PTSD. The flexibility and accessibility it offers make it a valuable alternative to conventional therapy settings.
Reviews for Carmen Chaney
All reviews have been submitted by clients after seeing the provider.
Overall rating:
Carmen has giving me confidence that I never had to open up to others. Her approach has been very positive and she is always there for me.
Carmen is caring, accepting, and supportive. She helps me see things in different ways, which is VERY helpful!! She is also very flexible and great at understanding underlying things as well.
Carmen is the best therapist I've ever had.
Carmen is always kind, friendly, and courteous. She genuinely listens with her heart to what I have to say, and takes the time to explain things in a way I understand. She allows herself to be human during sessions, which makes me a million times more comfortable, and reminds me that there are still good people out there. Every session we’ve had, has left me feeling better than I did going into it. I genuinely look forward to speaking with her every week.
Carmen is very professional in their approach, gives the best pieces of advice, and makes the patient feel comfortable through their rapport skills. I feel humbled to come across a professional guide like Carmen!
Carmen is a great therapist. She is positive and helpful, but firm and direct when needed. Carmen cares about her clients and goes out of her way to check in between appointments when she knows you’re having a hard time. I’ve found it difficult to open up to therapists in the past, but Carmen’s warm demeanor and cheerful smile made me feel safe to express myself. I’ve learned so much about myself and what I want from life in the time that I’ve been seeing Carmen. I’m so grateful to have found a therapist that challenges me, cheers for my successes, and supports me through my lowest of lows. I cannot recommend Carmen enough!
Carmen has been supporting me for over a year and I always look forward to her insight and advice. I have recommended BetterHelp to many friends based on my experience
Carmen listens to my concerns with compassion and offers tangible solutions alongside accountability check-ins to ensure that I am helping myself the most that I can.
Carmen is super supportive and often gives me other ways of thinking about things! I find that very, very helpful!
incredibly easy to connect with and open up to, Carmen has been able to impact my life and happiness with her insight
Carmen is a kind and honest therapist that listened and offers advice from her heart. She makes me feel seen and gives me valuable suggestions and resources to deal with whatever situation I’m currently navigating. I’m very grateful for Carmen!
Carmen is a great therapist and I know that I will make progress with her.
Carmen has been really supportive and given me specific tasks to help me make progress. Just starting the therapy process with her, my mental health has improved.
Carmen has been an integral piece in my healing and personal growth this year. I feel understood for the first time in my life, and even more- she has the expertise to give me the cognitive tools I didn't even know I needed. I am truly grateful for Carmen!
Carmen is friendly and straightforward, and does a good job of asking follow-up questions. I'm impressed with how well BetterHelp matched us.
Carmen is extremely considerate, caring and committed to helping you achieve realistic goals. She adopts whatever approach you feel most comfortable with, without compromising her core values and techniques that are most effective. Carmen helped me improve my quality of life dramatically. She is the support and comfort every queer person needs and deserves.
She's extremely understanding and listens to what I have to say.
Carmen is awesome. She is understanding and helps me reframe and reword things to ensure the best outcome for me. I TRULY appreciate her expertise, her caring and her abilities.
Carmen is very responsive and very helpful. Always makes me feel validated and heard!
Carmen has helped me get through a very tough time in my life. I appreciate her nurturing, calm, positive influence on my life so much. She made me feel welcome and safe at every single Session and showed me so much empathy and kindness. I will forever be thankful for your work, Carmen!
Carmen is great!! She listens, has a great sense of humour which is needed sometimes, has suggestions and ideas that have always helped.
Dr. Chaney is a wonderful therapist. She listens to my concerns and asks thoughtful questions to help guide me to the answers I already have within me. She provides resources and supports me in between sessions as well. I look forward to our sessions and I greatly appreciate the help she’s given me thus far.
Carmen has been amazing over these past few months, she has helped me develop new goals that were unthinkable at the start of our journey
Carmen Chaney is a compassionate therapist who really listens. She is perceptive and understanding.
Carmen has been a wonderful therapist!
Carmen is exactly what I was looking for - she offers practical and hands on tools with advice, asks probing and thoughtful questions, and she feels like talking to a real person vs someone who is just “there”. Can’t say how thankful I am for her!
Carmen is an active listener who provides more words of affirmation and advice. I feel really comfortable talking to her and I’m grateful to have her as my therapist!
Carmen worked with me for the last few months and I am very pleased with how she supported me and met my needs. She is very kind and understanding and I would highly recommend her. She was very helpful along my therapy journey and I can’t thank her enough for her support and encouragement.
Carmen was incredibly patient and immeasurably helpful, 100% recommend!
Carmen has been great. She’s a great listener and helps me find new perspectives.
Carmen has been one of the best therapists I've ever worked with. She is kind and compassionate, while also firm on things that I need to hear. She is such a strong advocate for her patients, always reminding me that she's in my corner and is there to support me. I feel steady on my own two feet right now, through many changes, and I am so grateful for her support through it all.
She is a great person to work with. Very helpful, caring, and emphatic.
Carmen was a great help to me. I was experiencing an accumulation of stress and anger, some of which was routine and some of which was extraordinary. With kindness, compassion and a straight-forward approach, she helped me put things in perspective, strengthen my boundaries, appropriately manage the stresses and recognize how to approach situations in a healthier manner. The eight sessions that I had with her were just what I needed.
I’ve had three sessions with Carmen so far and she has been absolutely wonderful. Really helps with providing me with tools to navigate my emotions and responses as well as just overall kind and caring. 10/10 would recommend Carmen to anyone looking for a therapist.
Carmen is an extremely kind and thoughtful therapist. She always uses very incisive language and adopts whichever approach the person feels is best for their situation.
Carmen is wonderful
In a few short weeks I can already see how this new relationship will change my life. Carmen has made it possible for me to grow and move towards peace. She has created a safe environment and has constantly respected the pace at which I am ready to move.
Carmen is amazing! I really clicked with her during our very first session. We had had a few IT issues but she is always very responsive and puts my needs first, makes sure I have goals and worksheets to complete prior to meeting for our next session. I look forward to our next session. :)
Carmen is a very kind, compassionate and wise person. She helped me develop some healthy coping skills for a number of extremely challenging personal situations I've encountered. I've never felt judged when talking to Carmen. Her application of the DBT and CBT techniques has also been very helpful.
Carmen has already been very helpful in our first few sessions. She offers many exercises to cope with stress and anxiety and is very receptive to which ones work for me.
You're a great therapist!
Carmen really helped during those five months! Caring and open, Carmen listens but also challenges and isn't scared to speak the truth! With exercices or just through those talks, I understood a lot and managed to progress. Thank you so much!
Carmen is a phenomenal therapist! Not only am I making progress on my goals, feeling happier in my relationships, and empowering myself in my daily life… I enjoy my therapy sessions! Carmen is personable while also being professional, listens and validates, and is able to utilize a variety of therapeutic strategies and techniques to best support the situation, whatever it may be. She is very experienced in her practice and that is evident by her skill set and ability to foster a comfortable environment for growth! Thank you so much Carmen!
I love her <3
She's the best therapist I've ever had.
Carmen is very attentive and caring. Grateful to have found her.
Carmen is by far the best therapist I’ve worked with and I’m pleased to have finally found somebody who is well suited to me and my needs. She is extremely attentive, understanding and even injects some light humour where necessary to put me at ease. I’m learning so much from her already.
Finding Carmens sessions extremely helpful, even at this early stage. I feel a weight has come off my shoulders after just 90 minutes of speaking with Carmen.
I’ve been seeing Carmen for almost a year and I highly recommend her as a therapist (especially for LGBTQ+ folks). Her unconditional support and guidance through my coming out process has been transformative. I started my journey with therapy as an anxious person, unsure of my sexuality and in a harmful relationship. I’m ending my journey as a confident lesbian in a loving relationship with the ability to set healthy boundaries. I didn’t know this could be my reality. I’m so grateful for Carmen and the safe space she holds for the community.
Carmen listens to and respects me as her client. I can open up personal issues that I have that I never knew I had. She was able to distinguish my problems and let me cope with them. She is accommodating with her suggestions.
My sessions with Carmen have been wonderful in my journey so far. I look forward to my session each week
Carmen is a great therapist, always listening to the patient and his needs. She is a positive person that highlights your strengths and achievements. Highly recommended
Carmen is an incredibly competent therapist who works well in a remote format. I appreciate her direct communication, sensitivity, and demeanor. Carmen is well equipped to help me with my goals, and I am glad to have the chance to be her client.
Carmen is an absolutely fantastic therapist. She is very helpful, extremely respectful and polite, and readily competent in many areas. She is able to focus on small day-to-day problems that I share in our therapy sessions while also connecting those issues to larger components and lessons that we focus on overall in therapy. Carmen has great ethics and I always feel safe and able to relax during our sessions. In our time together, I have experienced noticeable positive changes in my thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Carmen has helped me to isolate my issues down to small things I can control, and has provided me with tools that I will benefit from for the rest of my life. Can't recommend her enough!
I think I've already written a review for Carmen, but I just want to make sure I get to express what a help talking to Carmen has been for me. I am so grateful for the caring, thoughtful care I have been given. Carmen genuinely cares for the people in her care, and having that in my life has gotten through some of my toughest times so far. I'm so grateful for the tools I've learned and will be using them for the rest of my life.
Carmen has helped me at the hardest moments when I needed it most, due to health issues I wasn’t able to do the video sessions but she helped me greatly with text messages as well so I couldn’t be happier :) thanks Carmen!
It has been a short time since i’ve been with Carmen, but she has definitely helped me in many ways. I am thankful for her and i hope I can continue to grow with her.
I've been with with Carmen for a short time and already she's been able to help me see things in a different light and be able to verbalize my feelings and situations. She's clearly great at what she does and I look forward to our sessions every week!
Carmen is such an awesome counselor, she’s not afraid to be real with me and will at times make me relate to herself which makes things feel more personable and comfortable. She takes the time to ensure that you are doing okay and genuinely cares for your well-being. Carmen also wants you to find the treatment that is best for you and is not afraid if you do not feel she is a good fit and will recommend to always seek the best care that fits for you which makes her such a kind and caring counselor. Thank you Carmen for being there for me even when we don’t have a session!
I always feel very comfortable talking to Carmen. She doesn’t force anything on me. Are conversations are very fluid, I vent and she offers skills to handle the things that are going on in my life.
I have only been working with Carmen for a few months, but her influence in my life has been so incredibly positive. I was originally seeking help for different matters, but she has been an invaluable support during my sudden loss of a loved one, and I'm so grateful for that. She goes above and beyond for me and even if in the future I no longer seek therapy, the tools she has offered will stay with me forever.
I enjoy Carmen quite a bit, I think she's a cool lady, the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas! She helped me tremendously when I was in a tough situation. She was kind.
Carmen is truly excellent. She is clearly very educated and genuinely good at her job. I would recommend her to anyone, especially someone experiencing anxiety like myself.
Great listener! Carmen did a great job of listening to my issues and provided really wonderful insights. It never felt like she was dictating what I needed to do but instead felt like a collaboration on what we could do to work through the issues I had on hand. Carmen is very helpful and great at what she does
She has a wonderful sense of humor and is extremely helpful and kind.
Carmen is so helpful to me! We laugh, which is it’s own form of therapy and she helps widen my perspective on issues that I have struggled with. Thanks!
Carmen has been a great first counsellor to me. Really showed a lot of empathy and support, helped me to be vulnerable and feel understood and validated.
As many of us during the pandemic, I started working on myself and my stress more during this past year. After months of yoga, breathing techniques and getting a little into meditation, Carmen gave me the tools to really process all the information I had in my head, and the feelings I had been having. She is great at explaining different techniques and concepts so that they actually make sense to you. She listens and works with you to find the ones that will work in your daily life. It was thanks to little shifts and "aha moments" that I had during the conversations with her and the information she sent me that I feel more empowered now to deal with my anxiety.
Carmen is a very compassionate, warm, clever and non-judgemental person. They've already helped me get my bearings and focus on the things that could be improved given my life's situatation. I really appreciate their logical and practical approach. I'm happy to have Carmen as a counselor and look forward to our future interactions.
I already feel so comfortable talking to carmen and she has made me feel so at ease. I feel I can share my worries and thoughts with her without any judgment and she responds in an uplifting and positive way. I’m grateful for this help.
Carmen is warm, friendly and supportive councillor. Since my session began I have felt listen to and supported, she regularly checks in with me and if feel like I have someone to contact when I have a rough day.
Frequently asked questions
Does Carmen Chaney offer telehealth visits?
Yes. Carmen Chaney works with clients by exchanging messages, chatting live, speaking over the phone, or video conferencing based on what works for the client at that particular time.
What language(s) does Carmen Chaney speak?
Carmen Chaney speaks English.
How many years of experience does Carmen Chaney have?
Carmen Chaney has 14 years of experience.
Where is Carmen Chaney licensed to practice?
Carmen Chaney is licensed to practice in Nebraska.
Does Carmen Chaney accept clients outside of the United States?
Yes, Carmen Chaney accepts clients outside of the United States.
Is online therapy as effective as in-person therapy?
Numerous studies support the effectiveness of online platforms in facilitating life changes. For instance, research published by JMIR Publications, conducted by teams from the University of Berkeley, UCSF, and SF General Hospital, found that "users of BetterHelp experienced significantly reduced depression symptom severity after engaging with the platform."
What treatment approaches does Carmen Chaney offer?
Carmen Chaney offers clients Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.
How can I communicate with Carmen Chaney?
Carmen Chaney can be engaged in any one of four ways: (1) Exchanging messages, (2) chatting live, (3) speaking over the phone, or (4) video conferencing. You can use different ways at different times as you wish, based on your needs, availability, and convenience.
How do I get started with Carmen Chaney?
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