About Carlyss
Carlyss Kurtti is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in North Dakota with 18 years of clinical experience. She earned a master's degree in counseling and has spent nearly two decades helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other life challenges. Carlyss takes a calm, nonjudgmental approach and emphasizes respect and sensitivity in sessions.
Her style is patient and open. She listens first and then helps people set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are tailored to each person's needs and focused on practical steps that can make daily life easier. Carlyss uses a mix of approaches including cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, acceptance and commitment ideas, and client-centered listening. She draws from mindfulness techniques to help people manage strong emotions and develop more steady habits.
She has worked with people facing grief, relationship struggles, addictions, parenting stress, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and issues around self-esteem and body image. Carlyss also supports those recovering from abuse, divorce, or other losses, and she attends to caregiver strain and compassion fatigue. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Carlyss works with goals you set together and adjusts methods as needed. She aims to help people build skills they can use outside of therapy. To begin, clients follow the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
Payment and session terms vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How her approaches translate to online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral changes. It is often used to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms by building concrete coping steps.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help people handle anxiety, stress, and life changes by clarifying what matters and practicing committed actions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients shape the focus and pace of work together with the therapist.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well when visual connection helps skill teaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, and steady, paced progress between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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