About Carly
Carly Gelb is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Illinois. She brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on common concerns like anxiety, stress, depression, and addictions. Carly also addresses relationship and family difficulties, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem and intimacy.
She uses a client-centered style that puts the person in charge of their progress. Carly blends practical tools such as worksheets, journaling, and guided meditation with conversational work.
Background and approach
Art-based activities are offered when they fit a client's preferences and goals. Her approach includes techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new behaviors. Dialectical skills are used to teach emotion regulation and balance intense feelings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas support values-based choices and forward movement when life feels stuck. Carly often helps people who are coping with addiction, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, and mood conditions, and she addresses issues like attachment, codependency, control struggles, and forgiveness. Sessions are paced to each person's needs and comfort level.
She focuses on small, doable steps that build toward clarity and relief. Clients meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on preference. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used so sessions can be planned around availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when avoidance or fear keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change behavior and mood. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills that reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, which supports emotional balance and stress reduction.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carly will work with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That might mean combining mindfulness with CBT exercises, adding dialectical skills when emotions run high, or using ACT ideas to firm up values-based goals. The plan can change as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video is useful for fuller conversation and interactive worksheets, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat is handy for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility so people can choose what fits their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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