Practicing Compassion
Virtual Psychotherapy for Women Who Are Tired of Holding It All Together
Practicing Compassion
Virtual Psychotherapy for Women Who Are Tired of Holding It All Together
We provide virtual therapy for women in Arizona who are struggling with anxiety, burnout, grief, trauma, chronic health conditions, and major life transitions. Practicing Compassion, LLC, is exclusively for women across the lifespan, including mothers, caregivers, teachers, healthcare workers, helping professionals, college students, and women in later life.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or like you’ve been carrying too much for too long, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to keep doing it this way.
Virtual therapy allows you to receive support from anywhere in Arizona without adding more stress, travel, or logistics to your already full life. Whether you are in Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, or a rural community, therapy is accessible, flexible, and designed to meet you where you are.
Practicing Compassion, LLC was created around one simple but powerful belief: Compassion is not something you either have or don’t have—it is something you practice. Especially toward yourself.
In therapy, we work on gently shifting the patterns that keep women stuck in self-criticism, over-responsibility, and emotional exhaustion. Together, we build a new way of relating to yourself—one rooted in warmth, curiosity, humor, and self-understanding.
This is not about perfection. It is about practice.
Like learning an instrument or a sport, we build these skills over time. We don’t get it right every time—and that’s part of being human.
In fact, in our work together, we often respond to those moments with: “How human of you.”
Why Choose Practicing Compassion?
Who We Work With
We specialize in virtual therapy for women in Arizona, including those who are:
Mothers
Navigating postpartum changes, identity shifts, emotional overload, and burnout.
Caregivers & Helping Professionals
Including teachers, therapists, nurses, healthcare workers, and service-based professionals experiencing compassion fatigue and exhaustion.
College Students & Young Adults
Struggling with anxiety, pressure, identity development, and life transitions.
Women Experiencing Grief & Loss
Including bereavement, ambiguous loss, and emotional transitions across the lifespan.
Women with Chronic Health Conditions
Navigating chronic illness, medical stress, fatigue, and the emotional impact of physical health challenges.
Women in Later Life
Seeking support for aging, transitions, grief, reflection, and meaning-making. We proudly accept Medicare for eligible clients.
Therapeutic Approach
Our approach is:
- Trauma-informed
- Relational
- Compassion-focused
- Holistic and mind-body aware
We work together to help you:
- Understand your emotional patterns
- Regulate your nervous system
- Reduce self-criticism
- Strengthen self-compassion
- Build emotional clarity and internal safety
This therapy is both grounded and real.
Sometimes deep. Sometimes light. Always human.
Carrie Balbo, LCSW, PMH-C
Carrie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Arizona with over 20 years of experience supporting women through life’s transitions with compassion and expertise. She earned her Bachelor of Social Work in 2002 and Master of Social Work in 2006. Her practice reflects a full continuum of care—from college-aged emerging adults to women in midlife and beyond—offering thoughtful, holistic support at every stage.
Carrie specializes in perinatal mental health, including pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, fertility care, and recurrent pregnancy loss. She also supports women navigating parenting, perimenopause, and the complexities of aging, with additional expertise in geriatric social work, caregiver stress, and end-of-life and hospice-related care. Her work extends to concerns such as anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, chronic illness, and grief and loss.
She works exclusively with adult women, grounding her approach in compassion, curiosity, and respect. Carrie draws from a strengths-based framework and integrates complementary therapeutic modalities to meet each client’s unique needs, with a deep emphasis on cultivating self-compassion throughout the healing process.
As a mother of three—including a set of twins—and a caregiver within her own family, Carrie understands firsthand the demands and emotional complexity of balancing work, parenting, and caring for aging loved ones. Outside of her practice, she enjoys spending time with her family and pets, reading, hiking, yoga, and creative pursuits.
Carrie strives to embody compassion in both her personal and professional life. Her perspective is reflected in a favorite quote:
“Some of it’s magic, and some of it’s tragic, but I’ve had a good life all the way.”