About Carlyss
Carlyss Kurtti is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 18 years of clinical experience based in North Dakota. She holds a master's degree in counseling and has spent nearly two decades helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Carlyss approaches each person with patience and respect.
Her sessions aim to be steady and non-judgmental. She listens for what matters most and tailors the work to the individual's goals.
How Carlyss works
Practical skills and gentle exploration are both tools she uses to help people feel more grounded. Carlyss uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotional regulation.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices help people notice their values and respond more intentionally to stress. She has worked with people facing relationship strain, grief, addiction, body image concerns, parenting stress, and identity questions. Her background includes work with aging issues, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and ADHD among other focus areas.
This range lets her adapt sessions to many kinds of difficulties. Carlyss aims to create a calm, respectful setting where people can talk through what feels hard. She helps clients set clear goals, practice coping strategies, and make steady changes.
Many people come away with new tools for daily life.
Carlyss lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Carlyss works with
The areas below are the ones Carlyss selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Dakota |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Carlyss often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice their values and take small consistent steps toward them, even when feelings are hard. That approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teach practical skills for changing behaviors and moods. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, low mood, and some forms of trauma-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carlyss will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then choose or blend approaches together. This is a collaborative process that adapts over time as needs change.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstration of skills, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
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