About Carrie
Carrie Kirchner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps people coping with anxiety, stress, depression, mood swings, and strong emotions. She focuses on practical skills that make daily life more manageable. Her style is straightforward and supportive for people who feel overwhelmed by big feelings.
Kirchner draws on approaches that teach concrete tools for emotion regulation and behavior change. Sessions typically include skill practice, problem solving, and short-term goal setting.
Background and approach
She encourages clients to notice what works for them and to build on their strengths. With ten years of clinical experience, Kirchner has worked with people facing a range of concerns including bipolar symptoms, anger, self-esteem struggles, trauma and abuse, and ADHD. She also addresses relationship stress, life transitions, isolation, and issues like guilt, shame, and forgiveness.
Her background gives her familiarity with intense emotional states and crisis-related coping. Therapy with Kirchner is collaborative. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them find strategies that fit their routine.
Sessions aim to combine practical skills with attention to emotions and personal values. People can expect clear direction during sessions, with take-home strategies to practice between meetings. The work often covers boundaries, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and steps toward rebuilding motivation and a sense of purpose.
CBT and DBT tools for online sessions
DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, focuses on teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It is helpful for people who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions and need step-by-step strategies to stay safe and function day to day. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people test and change unhelpful thinking patterns to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss which techniques fit the client's goals and daily life and will adjust methods as progress is made. This is a collaborative process where the client's needs and preferences guide which skills are emphasized.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging offers ongoing prompts and reflection between live meetings. These formats help people access consistent support and practice skills in the settings where they live and work.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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