About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience helping people navigate stress and anxiety. She practices in Illinois and brings a down-to-earth style to therapy. Carrie focuses on clear goals and practical steps people can use between sessions.
Her work centers on common life challenges like relationship strain, grief, depression, and coping with major change. She also supports people dealing with trauma, addictions, compulsive behaviors, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
Carrie pays attention to how daily habits, thinking patterns, and relationships affect emotional health. In sessions she uses short-term tools alongside deeper trauma work when needed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a common focus to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also draws on trauma-focused techniques and mindfulness to reduce distress and improve emotional regulation. People who choose Carrie often want direct feedback, concrete skills, and a collaborative plan. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a simple Start Therapy button and a short matching questionnaire connect someone to scheduling options. Carrie aims to meet people where they are and help them build small, practical steps toward relief and greater stability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Carrie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change thinking and behavior patterns that keep stress and anxiety high. CBT focuses on practical skills such as shifting unhelpful thoughts, testing beliefs, and building routines that reduce symptoms.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, for people who have distressing memories or trauma. EMDR involves guided attention and processing to reduce the intensity of painful memories and their emotional impact.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Carrie works with each person to match methods to their goals, comfort level, and life demands. She may start with short-term, solution-focused steps and add mindfulness or trauma work when deeper processing is needed.
Online sessions can fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and a way to share thoughts between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy when schedules or location make in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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