About Carrie
Carrie Hillebrandt is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) and a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner (LMHP) with 16 years in the field. She focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and relationship problems. Parents and individuals can expect a calm, direct approach that aims to make things easier to manage day to day.
Carrie centers sessions on building a strong working relationship first. She listens without judgment and helps people set clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and skills that can be used between meetings to reduce symptoms and improve functioning. Her methods draw from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address unhelpful thinking and increase values-based action. Attachment-based and client-centered techniques guide work on relationship, intimacy, and family-related concerns.
Mindfulness practices are used when helpful to reduce stress and increase emotional awareness. She has worked in residential settings and independent practice, and she also supervises and consults with other clinicians. That experience informs a flexible style that adapts to different needs and life stages.
Carrie keeps up with current research and continuing education to refine her practice. In sessions she helps people manage grief, navigate life transitions, cope with ADHD or bipolar symptoms, and address caregiving strain or compassion fatigue. She also supports those processing adoption, abandonment, blended family stresses, and communication breakdowns.
The approach is collaborative and focused on what matters most to each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It emphasizes taking small actions that match personal values, which can be useful for anxiety, life transitions, and building motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks for patterns of thinking that increase distress and teaches concrete skills to change those patterns and behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stressful life events.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carrie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on real progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when longer work is needed, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging fit quick check-ins or when writing helps process thoughts. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage follow-up between sessions, and keep momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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