- Years in practice
- 10
- Credentials
- LIMHP
- Licensed in
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Carrie
Carrie Gottschalk is a licensed independent mental health practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska who helps people handle parenting stress and other life challenges. She draws on a calm, warm presence to make hard conversations easier. Her style is interactive and respectful, aiming to help parents find practical ways forward.
Carrie focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, grief, compassion fatigue, and depression. She also supports people wrestling with trauma, attachment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, ADHD, and career or relationship strain.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear steps and coping strategies that fit each person’s life. Her approach blends client-centered listening with evidence-informed tools. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build alternatives.
She also incorporates attachment ideas to strengthen relationships and EMDR for processing past trauma when appropriate. Sessions move at the client’s pace and focus on problem solving. Carrie helps people spot strengths they already have and then build new habits and routines.
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented, with space for emotions and real-life constraints. With about 10 years of clinical experience, Carrie combines experience with a straightforward, compassionate way of working. She guides people through change by tailoring plans to daily life.
If a parent needs help managing stress, behavior, or major life transitions, she aims to provide steady, practical support.
What Carrie works with
Everything Carrie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Carrie helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Post-traumatic stress
Approaches Carrie lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand patterns in their close relationships and how those patterns affect parenting and emotional connection. Online sessions can include conversations that map relationship histories and practice new ways of responding.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. In remote sessions clients and therapist set clear goals, use homework between sessions, and track small changes over time to reduce anxiety and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match strategies to a person's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they decide whether attachment work, CBT, EMDR, or other methods best fit the concern and pace desired.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or times when typing is easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules, handle quick questions between sessions, and keep progress moving forward.
Questions people ask about Carrie
What concerns does Carrie address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting issues, relationship and family strain, compassion fatigue, anger, career questions, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on trauma, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, and ADHD.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm, interactive, and solution-focused. Sessions combine listening with practical problem solving and tools tailored to each person.
What is her professional background?
She has about 10 years of clinical experience working with people through life transitions, trauma, and parenting challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LIMHP credential and practices in Nebraska.
Which languages and international work are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
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