Carmela Byus, LPCC

Carmela Byus is an Ohio-based Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) with 16 years of professional experience supporting people through addiction, trauma, grief, and a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. She has worked in substance use disorder treatment since 2012 and expanded her practice to mental health care in 2022, bringing long-term expertise in addiction recovery alongside broader therapeutic work. Her practice focuses on helping clients address addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, and depression.

Byus approaches each person with the belief that they are the expert of their own story and that existing strengths can be identified and strengthened to promote healing and change. She emphasizes a paced, client-centered process that meets each individual where they are, supporting motivation, confidence building, and practical steps toward goals. Her additional focus areas include challenges such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, codependency, communication problems, drug and alcohol addiction, feelings of emptiness, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose questions, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, self-love, and social anxiety.

Clients working with Byus can expect a supportive, strengths-based approach that honors their experience while offering evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide recovery and growth.

Evidence-based approaches applied through online care

Carmela Byus uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each client. One approach focuses on structured skill-building that helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and develop practical strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. This kind of work is useful for mood concerns, relationship strain, and daily coping challenges.

Another approach emphasizes trauma-focused processing to gently address the impact of past abuse or traumatic events, helping reduce their ongoing emotional influence and support recovery from post-traumatic stress and related symptoms. A third element often used is motivational work aimed at strengthening readiness for change, which can be especially helpful for those facing substance use or behavior change goals.

Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist collaborates with each client to determine which approaches best fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting pace and focus as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Byus is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for scheduling, easier access from different locations, and options that match different communication styles and life demands.