About Carole
Carole Sandusky is a licensed clinician in Illinois who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, sleep problems, and mood challenges. She brings 17 years of experience and a straightforward style that aims to make getting help less intimidating. Carole treats common life strains like grief, burnout, parenting stress, career transitions, ADHD, and the impact of trauma and abuse.
She also addresses concerns such as body image, communication problems, attachment issues, and the strain on caregivers.
How Carole works
Her work includes support for people in the LGBT community and those coping with bipolar disorder or major life changes. Her approach centers on working with each person’s strengths. Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps.
She helps people notice what matters most, build small skills, and try new ways of handling difficult thoughts and feelings. Carole draws on a mix of methods to fit the situation. Techniques include acceptance and commitment work to clarify values and take action, cognitive-behavioral tools to change patterns, attachment-informed approaches to relationship concerns, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation.
Conversations are direct but compassionate. Carole supports people who want clearer goals, better coping tools, and steadier day-to-day functioning. She helps map a plan that fits each person’s life and priorities.
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What Carole works with
The areas below are the ones Carole selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people decide what matters most and take steps toward those values even with difficult thoughts or feelings present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where motivation and direction feel unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, sleeplessness, and low mood. It offers concrete tools people can practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for handling intense emotions, improving interpersonal effectiveness, and managing stress in the moment, which can help with anger or emotional ups and downs.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, explain options, and try methods that fit your situation. That collaborative process lets techniques be adjusted over time so sessions match what actually helps you accomplish.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Chat and texting make shorter check-ins and ongoing support easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to keep momentum between visits and to practice new skills where life happens.
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