About Carrie
Carrie Hillebrandt is a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner, LIMHP, and a Licensed Mental Health Practitioner, LMHP, with 16 years in the field. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, relationship concerns, grief, and life changes. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
Carrie uses a person-centered style. She focuses on building rapport first, then works with each person to create a plan that fits their needs.
How Carrie works
Sessions aim to be respectful and nonjudgmental, with clear goals and practical steps. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-informed work, mindfulness, and client-centered methods. These tools are used to manage symptoms, improve communication, and strengthen coping skills.
She adapts methods to the specific concern at hand rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model. Carrie has experience in residential settings and independent practice. She continues professional development, reads current literature, and consults with colleagues to sharpen clinical skills.
She also supervises other therapists and leads group consultations. People can expect straightforward conversations about goals and progress. Carrie works with individuals on parenting challenges, family stress, career uncertainty, and longer-term patterns like abandonment or attachment issues.
Her style is practical, patient, and focused on small steps that add up over time.
Carrie lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Carrie works with
The areas below are the ones Carrie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LIMHP, LMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify values and take small actions that align with those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers hands-on strategies to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with depression, anxiety, and mood regulation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop healthier ways of relating and communicating, which can aid intimacy and family concerns.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about goals, try methods that fit the person's needs, and adjust the plan as progress is observed. Clients and the therapist work together to find what feels most helpful rather than committing to a single method up front.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video is effective for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or suit lower bandwidth, and text or chat options allow brief check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people balance therapy with work, parenting, and other commitments while using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
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