- Years in practice
- 14
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of clinical experience. She works with adults and adolescents on life transitions, relationship strain, and emotional struggles. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and parenting challenges.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also integrates EMDR for processing traumatic memories and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with short-term strategies and longer-term coping skills when needed. Carrie draws on experience supporting people coping with divorce, deployment or military-related transitions, and other major life changes. She also addresses addiction concerns, mood disorders, obsessions and compulsions, and postpartum or seasonal mood issues.
Her work includes helping clients navigate family problems, codependency, and intimacy concerns. People can expect a calm, practical style focused on making change feel doable. She emphasizes real steps you can use between sessions, such as behavior experiments, grounding exercises, and brief coaching methods.
The tone is warm and encouraging while staying focused on what matters most to the client. Carrie practices in Illinois and offers in-session formats that work for different schedules. She helps parents and individuals trying to balance caregiving with other life demands, and she frames parenting as one of the common areas people bring to therapy.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Codependency
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Carrie lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused 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 Carrie’s approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often include skill practice, thought records, and behavioral experiments that people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety and manage mood.EMDR, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, helps process distressing memories that keep causing strong reactions. In telehealth sessions EMDR can be adapted with guided attention tasks and paced processing to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and improve day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Carrie works with each person to decide whether CBT, EMDR, mindfulness techniques, or a mix will best address their goals and comfort level. She adjusts methods over time based on what is most helpful for symptoms, coping, and life demands.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging lets people share thoughts in the moment. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, childcare, or other commitments while using the same therapeutic methods as in-person care.
Questions people ask about Carrie
What kinds of concerns does Carrie address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, addictions, grief, bipolar and mood disorders, ADHD, and related topics such as codependency and family problems.
What is her therapy style like?
Carrie uses a practical, collaborative style that mixes short-term strategies and longer-term skill building. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 14 years of clinical experience working with adults and adolescents through major life transitions, relationship stress, and trauma-related concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an Illinois LCPC license and practices in Illinois.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted; she works with clients located in Illinois.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How are costs and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.
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