About Corrie
Corrie Gerster is an Ohio-based clinician with 11 years of professional experience in mental health. She has worked across school-based, home-based, community, residential, and independent practice settings. Corrie has spent years supporting people who survived human trafficking and those navigating complex trauma.
Her work commonly addresses stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps people facing relationship and intimacy-related struggles, parenting concerns, grief, and career or life transitions.
How Corrie works
Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, codependency, and postpartum depression. Corrie uses a mix of practical strategies in sessions. She draws on cognitive and dialectical skills alongside client-centered and solution-focused methods.
Sessions aim to teach tools people can use between appointments, such as emotion regulation techniques and thought-challenging exercises. She emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where people can name difficult feelings and set concrete goals. Corrie works collaboratively, so people help shape the pace and focus of therapy.
The approach is straightforward and goal-oriented while still acknowledging how painful experiences can feel. Corrie encourages people to recognize the courage it takes to start therapy. She helps clients build coping skills, improve relationships, and move toward clearer decision-making.
Her practice centers on practical help and steady support for real-life struggles.
What Corrie works with
The areas below are the ones Corrie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches for online healing
Corrie uses cognitive approaches that focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking patterns. This helps with anxiety, panic, depression, and negative self-beliefs by teaching skills to notice and reframe thoughts. She also uses dialectical behavior skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be especially useful for intense emotions and relationship struggles. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Corrie will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and what methods feel most comfortable. She tailors techniques collaboratively, adjusting pace and emphasis as needs change. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing written work between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or other life demands.Start online instead of waiting
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