About Carrie
Carrie Wallace-Onifade is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people untangle relationship and family concerns. She focuses on building confidence, improving communication, and navigating career and life changes with practical, down-to-earth support. Carrie believes clients know their own stories and brings a collaborative, respectful style to sessions.
She listens for strengths and patterns, then helps people try small changes that can make daily life feel more manageable. Her approach centers on clear goals and doable steps rather than jargon or long lectures.
How Carrie works
With 13 years of experience, Carrie has worked with common family challenges such as blended household dynamics, adoption and foster care questions, and issues that arise after separation or divorce. She also addresses caregiver stress, infidelity, and problems tied to family of origin. These topics often connect to self-worth, commitment concerns, and how people show up in relationships.
Clients can expect conversational sessions that focus on practical skills like setting boundaries, improving communication, and making decisions about work and parenting roles. Carrie pays attention to how daily routines and expectations shape stress and offers tools to change them. Her practice is based in Illinois and she conducts sessions in English.
She frames therapy as a collaborative process and supports people as they take steps toward clearer goals and more satisfying relationships.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical, measurable steps that help people change patterns and feel better. One common approach is skill-based work that teaches concrete strategies for communication, boundary setting, and problem solving; this helps with relationship conflicts, codependency, and caregiver stress. Another approach focuses on exploring family of origin patterns and roles to clarify how past experiences shape current behavior; this can help with blended family issues, fatherhood concerns, and recurring family problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a few strategies, and adapt methods based on what is most helpful. Clients and the therapist review progress together and adjust the plan as needed to meet real-life goals.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when interactive work is useful. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing support and brief problem-solving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other daily routines.
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