About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Her work often focuses on relationship strain, parenting concerns, addiction, and life transitions.
Carrie draws on practical approaches to help clients find relief and better coping skills. She uses straightforward tools to reduce overwhelming feelings and to improve everyday functioning. Sessions aim to create clear steps forward rather than long lists of abstract goals.
Background and approach
Many clients come with grief, intimacy-related problems, or family-of-origin issues. Carrie also addresses codependency, divorce and separation, domestic violence aftermath, and challenges linked to mood disorders. She pays attention to how those struggles affect daily routines and relationships.
Carrie incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness-based techniques when they fit a person’s needs. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused work to set short-term goals and build momentum. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort.
Her background includes work with people facing post-traumatic stress, postpartum depression, seasonal mood shifts, OCD symptoms, and addiction-related concerns. Carrie aims to help people regain a sense of control and move toward practical changes. The approach is hopeful, direct, and action-oriented.
How cognitive work, EMDR, and mindfulness translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to change how people feel. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and phobias and works well in short, structured online sessions.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that uses guided attention to reduce the intensity of painful memories. It can help with post-traumatic stress, certain trauma reactions, and strong emotional responses when introduced carefully in teletherapy.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. These skills can be practiced during video sessions and reinforced through brief daily exercises between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review symptoms, goals, and personal preferences to decide which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and guided techniques. Phone sessions are sometimes easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat or text messaging can help keep momentum between appointments and allow brief coaching or check-ins when schedules are tight.
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What this counselor 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