About Carlisle
Carlisle Bergquist is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience. He practices from a client-centered stance and focuses on helping people facing anxiety, relationship strains, and life transitions. He aims to be a steady, respectful presence while people talk through hard problems.
He has worked in a range of settings, including a school for troubled children and a maximum security jail in California, before returning to Kansas.
Background and approach
That variety shaped his ability to listen to many kinds of stories and to stay calm when concerns feel intense. He uses approachable methods that prioritize the individual’s pace and values. Carlisle studied transpersonal psychology in the San Francisco area and integrates mindfulness and motivational interviewing into his client-centered work.
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, improved coping skills, and building confidence where it has been worn thin. He pays careful attention to motivation and the small steps that make lasting change possible. He helps people work through issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, addiction, and parenting stress.
He also addresses concerns like codependency, panic attacks, discrimination, and recovery after trauma or disaster. The aim is practical problem solving alongside emotional healing. Carlisle emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in sessions.
He sees therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the work. If his approach sounds like a fit, he invites people to share their stories and begin the next steps together.
Using Client-Centered and Mindfulness Approaches Online
Carlisle blends client-centered work with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people manage anxiety and related concerns. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and responding with respect so the person sets the pace and goals. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple skills for reducing stress and improving sleep.Motivational interviewing helps people find reasons to change and build confidence for taking small steps. Together these methods create a collaborative process where the therapist helps each person choose what fits their life. Carlisle will work with the client to decide which approach or mix of approaches feels most useful for their situation.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick coping strategies, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the therapy focused on the client’s goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
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