Carissa Atkinson

(She/Her)

Licensed Professional Counselor

Pennsylvania

Accepts

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Cigna, Geisinger, Oscar (Optum), Oxford (Optum), and United Healthcare (Optum)

Specializes in

Anxiety and OCD

Intro Style Cost More info

Great to meet you!

Carissa is a therapist who specializes in OCD and Anxiety. She graduated from Chatham University after which she received specialized training from The Center for OCD and Anxiety.

A bit about my approach to therapy

Carissa’s approach to treatment typically involves three phases: building insight and awareness around delineating between OCD-related intrusive thoughts and your own logical thought processes; developing skills to appropriately manage and dismiss intrusive thoughts and compulsive urges; and ultimately structuring effective, yet manageable, exposures to incrementally build distress tolerance and systematically desensitize to triggering experiences.

What you can expect from our first session

Carissa's primary goal is to help clients realize happy, healthy, fulfilling lives by taking their freedom back from the binds of OCD and anxiety. Carissa enjoys working in a creative, collaborative environment while cultivating meaningful relationships with her clients.

Note: Booking with Carissa Atkinson is managed via Grounded Counseling and Wellness, LLC administration. Please reach out via Headway and an administrator will contact you shortly to confirm booking/appointments.

Carissa's style is

Open-minded

Solution-oriented

Challenging

Insurance carriers Carissa accepts

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Cigna

Geisinger

Oscar

Oxford

United Healthcare

More about Carissa

MS (Master of Science) at Chatham College

License type: LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) (Pennsylvania)

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Languages: English

Works with: Adolescents, Adults, and Seniors

More specialties: Stress

Modalities: Strength-Based, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)