About Corliss
Corliss Ivy is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience. She practices from Illinois and works with adults facing anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, relationship concerns, and related struggles. Corliss centers each meeting on the person in front of her and on practical steps forward.
Her academic background includes a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master of arts in Counseling and Human Services from Roosevelt University in Chicago.
Background and approach
She also completed post-graduate work in an Advanced Psychodynamic Fellowship in Clinical Practice through the University of Chicago, Social Service Administration. Corliss draws from several approaches when helping people. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and to strengthen the therapeutic relationship.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thinking and develop new coping skills. Mindfulness practices are offered to reduce reactivity and improve stress management. In sessions she aims for clear, collaborative work.
Conversations focus on specific problems such as anxiety, depression, life transitions, or responses to past abuse. She helps people name goals, try new coping ways, and track what changes between sessions. Her practice also addresses concerns like compassion fatigue, intimacy issues, anger, self-esteem, and questions about life purpose.
Corliss welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English. She encourages questions and offers straightforward guidance about beginning therapy.
Approaches and What Online Therapy Offers
Corliss uses client-centered work that focuses on the person's priorities and strengthens the therapeutic relationship. This approach helps people feel heard and guides decisions about what to address first.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers concrete tools to reduce anxiety, change unhelpful thinking, and build new coping habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Corliss collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques based on what is helping.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break from work. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or a written way to track thoughts between meetings. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity when travel or distance would otherwise interrupt care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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