About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 14 years of experience based in Illinois. She focuses on helping adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Carrie uses clear, practical steps to help people manage symptoms and move forward.
She meets people where they are and breaks down big problems into manageable pieces. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Carrie draws on approaches that teach skills, reduce distressing memories, and build daily coping habits.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years working with clients who face relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and career or financial stress. Her experience also includes supporting people with obsessive thoughts, mood disorders, postpartum struggles, and phobias. In the room she pairs skill-building with gentle processing of difficult events.
That can mean learning tools to change unhelpful thinking, practicing calm breathing and present-moment awareness, or addressing traumatic memories in a paced way. Carrie aims to help clients find small wins that add up. She emphasizes practical strategies that fit into busy days.
The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better ways to handle life’s ups and downs.
Practical therapy methods for online care
Carrie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to help clients work through symptoms. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replacing them with more helpful options; it is useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and mood challenges. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a paced approach for addressing distressing memories and trauma symptoms by processing those memories in structured sessions.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people stay calmer in the moment by practicing simple attention and breathing exercises. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carrie will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then adapt tools and pacing so the care fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let therapists and clients use visual cues and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and messaging provide a lower-intensity option for short updates, skill practice, or coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work without long commutes and to keep momentum between appointments.
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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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