About Corrie
Corrie Gerster is an Ohio-based mental health professional with 11 years of experience. She holds an LPCC credential and has worked across school-based, home-based, community, residential, and independent practice settings. Corrie has spent much of her recent work supporting survivors of human trafficking over the last seven years.
Her practice focuses on practical help for people coping with stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship concerns. She helps people who are navigating life changes like becoming a parent, ending a relationship, or shifting careers.
Background and approach
Corrie also addresses parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, and concerns tied to self-esteem and body image. Her approach is hands-on and goal-oriented, aimed at skills people can use between sessions. Corrie blends cognitive behavioral strategies and dialectical skills with client-centered and solution-focused techniques.
That mix lets her teach concrete coping tools, build emotion regulation skills, and work toward specific goals that a person names. Sessions tend to focus on what the person wants to change and how to get there. Her background includes work with trauma, domestic violence, codependency, mood disorders, panic attacks, and non-traditional relationship dynamics.
She uses that experience to tailor practical plans for coping, safety, and recovery. Corrie aims to make sessions direct, compassionate, and useful. People who choose her often want straightforward strategies and steady support while they manage difficult life events.
She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and focuses on helping clients move forward at a manageable pace.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Corrie commonly uses cognitive behavioral approaches to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking. CBT teaches concrete strategies for reducing anxiety, managing moods, and coping with panic symptoms in day-to-day life.She also uses dialectical behavior techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. These skills help when feelings feel overwhelming or relationships become a source of stress.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust tools as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation; phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break; chat or text can work for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options aim to make it simpler to keep regular appointments and practice skills between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English