My Therapeutic Approach
Hello! My name is Dallas Carey. I am a licensed clinical psychologist with a focus on helping others design their own consciousness. I work holistically, meaning that I help create change by targeting important life domains (e.g., nutrition, sleep, relationships, stress, thinking style, & daily structure.) For example, I am interested in how you think and feel about yourself (and your future self) & others, as well as how daily lifestyle choices facilitate your well-being. You’ll often catch me saying “Let’s discover the thought between the thoughts” or “That triggering event didn’t make you depressed. What you believed about the triggering event made you depressed.” By looking at both conscious and unconscious beliefs, you can choose more adaptive beliefs and combine them with new behaviors which creates a whole new life experience. Ultimately, this process helps you to think, feel, and choose better. I use this integrative approach to help you build insight, foster understanding, and develop helpful behaviors and mindsets that move you in the direction of ultimate Wellness. I believe that even the biggest of changes are made one step at a time. Taking small actions on a daily basis add up to powerful changes. This is the mentality that informs my work in all contexts.
I specialize in working with clients with a variety of problems that range from anxiety and depression, life transitions, and relationship issues. I also specialize in geriatric psychology with over 5 years of experience working with seniors. Using an integrated framework, I help others create a happier, more peaceful, joyful reality.
Mind & Body Wellness Blog
A Blog about the vital Mind & Body Connection. Come read about how simple little daily changes can have a huge impact on how we think, feel and live.
Presentations and Program Development
Dr. Carey specializes in the integration of nutrition with traditional talk therapy to treat trauma, anxiety disorders, depression, and dementia prevention. She is a developer of workshops, a speaker and educator of nutritional strategies, and has developed healthy lifestyle programs in California, Indiana, and Florida. She has created workshops and delivered talks on the impact of food choices on both emotional health and cognitive functioning. She believes that nutrition and healthy lifestyle behaviors delivered alongside cognitive behavioral therapy and other classic psychotherapeutic modalities can vastly improve well-being. When working with clients, she takes a whole-person approach, working with both their thoughts and behaviors, and their Wellness behaviors. She is passionate about inspiring others to make simple daily lifestyle changes that overtime add up to a significantly healthier happier life. Her work in Nutritional education for Mental Health began back in graduate school. She has developed and provided the following talks and programs over the past 10 years:
- Understanding and Treating Anxiety delivered at Figment Design in Miami, FL October 2023, and at Mediagistic Marketing Agency in Tampa, FL August 2023.
- Addressing Covid Burnout delivered for the Florida Healthcare Association in Sarasota, FL. May 19th, 2022.
- Nutrition for optimal emotional and cognitive functioning for the geriatric population delivered to health care professionals and assisted living residents at Bayside Park in Emeryville, CA. Oct. 2014 to July 2018
- Co-developed a health psychology program, Integrated and Coordinated Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program to deliver behavioral health services to at - risk youth. Kids and Parents were taught nutritional and exercise tools, and biomarkers were taken as measures for intervention effectiveness. August 2013 to August 2014
- Delivered behavioral health focused interventions in Medical Physical Rehabilitation Hospital to patients receiving physical therapy. Focus on was on obesity reduction, stroke prevention, and spinal cord injury recovery
