About Carole
Carole Sandusky is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps that build confidence and motivation. Carole emphasizes the person's own strengths and life story as the starting point for change.
She listens with a straightforward, respectful style and works collaboratively to set clear goals. Sessions are focused on what the client wants to change and on small, doable actions between meetings.
Background and approach
Carole encourages clients to try different tools and notice what actually helps in day-to-day life. Her background includes 17 years of professional experience in clinical settings. That experience informs an approach that blends structured techniques with open, person-focused conversation.
Carole draws on methods that teach skills for managing overwhelming thoughts, regulating emotions, and improving sleep and daily routines. People who come to her often want help with coping through life changes, grief, trauma, or workplace stress. She also supports concerns tied to identity, caregiver strain, attention differences, and relationship communication challenges.
Carole frames problems in practical terms and helps people track progress over time. Her work aims to empower people to make steady changes. She partners with each person to choose strategies that fit their values and daily life.
The goal is clearer thinking, better coping, and a stronger sense of control over stressful moments.
Approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what matters to you and taking small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to notice thinking patterns and change unhelpful behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns shape current reactions and supports building healthier ways of relating to others and to yourself.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they choose or combine methods and adjust them as progress is measured and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for fitting sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern, and live chat or text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, or shorter planning conversations. These options make it simpler to keep a consistent schedule, try different formats, and practice skills in real time without changing daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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