About Carlyss
Carlyss Kurtti is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience based in North Dakota. She earned a master’s degree in counseling and has spent nearly two decades helping people navigate tough life moments. Carlyss offers steady, patient support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or trauma.
Her sessions are calm and nonjudgmental. She listens first, then helps clients set small, clear goals. Carlyss uses practical tools from cognitive-behavioral methods and mindfulness to manage symptoms day to day.
Background and approach
She also draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy when helpful, tailoring each session to what the person needs in the moment. That can mean focusing on coping skills one week and values-based goals the next. The plan is adjusted as goals change.
Carlyss has broad experience with concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, substance issues, body image, and identity questions related to LGBT concerns. She also works with people facing career stress, attention challenges like ADHD, and caregiving burdens. Her style is compassionate and straightforward.
Sessions aim to build skills clients can use between meetings. Carlyss emphasizes practical steps, clearer communication, and realistic plans to help people regain a sense of control.
How these approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is useful when someone feels stuck or unsettled by difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting thought patterns that feed anxiety or depression and practicing new, more helpful responses. It can help with panic, phobias, and mood shifts. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus; it supports stress, emotion regulation, and setbacks tied to trauma.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting strategies over time rather than following a set plan from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or for shorter check-ins. Chat and messaging let people share updates between sessions or use therapy around a busy day. These options make it easier to keep consistent care and to practice skills in real time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota
- Languages
- English