About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is an Illinois licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and major life changes. Carrie draws on practical tools so clients can handle daily challenges and move toward clearer goals.
Carrie spent time connected to military life as a former military spouse and understands the strains that deployment and transitions can create. That background informs her work with people facing veteran and armed forces issues and those coping with separation or loss.
How Carrie works
She aims to offer steady support when routines and roles shift. Her approach blends structured strategies and trauma-focused work. Carrie uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors.
She also uses EMDR for processing traumatic memories when that fits the client's needs. Mindfulness practices and solution-focused methods are woven into sessions to help people find small, practical steps forward. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change or struggling with addictions and ambivalence.
Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals and skills that can be used between meetings. People come to Carrie for help with grief, parenting strain, intimacy issues, bipolar and mood concerns, OCD and phobias, postpartum depression, and compassion fatigue. She also works with those navigating divorce, codependency, domestic violence histories, family of origin problems, and midlife transitions.
The focus is on creating manageable plans and restoring a sense of agency.
Carrie lists 6 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. Online sessions typically use structured conversations and homework to practice new skills between meetings, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a method used to process traumatic memories. In telehealth sessions the therapist guides gentle bilateral stimulation and helps the client process stuck memories and related emotions when this approach is appropriate.
Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and grounding skills to reduce reactivity and increase emotional awareness. These practices can be taught in video or phone sessions and reinforced through short daily exercises that fit into a busy life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked in the past, then recommend methods and adjust them over time. Clients and therapist review progress and pivot if a different mix of techniques would help more.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper work, phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier on the go, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options help fit therapy into work, family, and travel schedules while keeping a steady course toward goals.
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