About Carlisle
Carlisle Bergquist is a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist with 35 years of practice. He brings a calm, respectful presence and focuses on helping people work through relationship and family concerns, mood struggles, and issues around intimacy and self-worth. He uses a person-centered approach that emphasizes listening and understanding.
Sessions are tailored to each person's needs, with an emphasis on encouragement and practical steps. He also draws on mindfulness skills to help with anxiety, stress, and sleep problems.
How Carlisle works
Carlisle's background includes work in school settings and in a maximum security jail in California. Those roles exposed him to a wide range of life challenges, from behavioral concerns to trauma and addiction. He has experience supporting people through grief, divorce and separation, and recovery from domestic violence.
People often seek help for panic attacks, bipolar-related concerns, self-harm thoughts, or struggles with motivation and career direction. He also supports those facing prejudice and discrimination, first responder issues, and challenges tied to sexual orientation and LGBT identity. Codependency, forgiveness, and rebuilding trust after infidelity are additional areas of focus.
Carlisle aims to be a steady witness and guide. He helps people find their own strengths and make concrete changes. If his style feels like a fit, the next step is to reach out and begin the matching process.
Carlisle lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Carlisle works with
The areas below are the ones Carlisle selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
Person-Centered and Mindfulness Approaches Online
Person-centered therapy focuses on being heard and respected. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the person's lead to build trust. This approach helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem problems, and navigating life transitions.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and calm anxious thoughts. It can be helpful for panic attacks, sleep troubles, and ongoing worry. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and can support work on addictions, motivation, and behavior change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions can take place by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be easier with lower bandwidth, and chat or text offers quick check-ins or shorter sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help fit therapy into a busy life.
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