About Carole
Carole Sandusky helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, depression, trauma, grief, and related challenges. She works with clients facing caregiving strain, career stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Carole practices in Illinois and brings 17 years of professional experience to her work.
She holds an IL LCPC, which is the credential listed for her practice. Carole centers sessions on each person's strengths and goals.
Background and approach
She treats clients as experts on their own lives and focuses on practical steps they can use between sessions. Conversations aim to be direct and hopeful while remaining flexible to what a client needs that week. Her approach blends several evidence-informed methods.
Carole uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. She draws on client-centered principles to follow what matters most to the person in the room. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help clients notice difficult feelings while taking values-based actions.
Sessions often include skill practice, short experiments, and goal-setting. Carole also works with attachment-based ideas when understanding relationships matters for coping and recovery. She supports people through life transitions, parenting stress, adoption and foster care concerns, and challenges related to aging.
People who reach out can expect clear, practical steps and a calm, respectful presence. Carole aims to help clients build tools for harder moments and to strengthen what is already working in their lives.
Practical approaches for online sessions
Carole commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and anger. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful feelings without getting stuck in them and to act in ways that match their values, which can be useful for coping with grief, stress, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different strategies to see what fits. Together you will choose methods and exercises that match your needs and preferences, and adjust them over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls let you work face to face without traveling. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get brief support between sessions or when typing feels easier than talking. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English