About Carlyss
Carlyss Kurtti is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 18 years of experience based in North Dakota. She works with people facing common life struggles like anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD. Carlyss aims to create a calm, non-judgmental space where people can say what is on their mind and begin to sort things out.
She holds a Master’s degree in Counseling from North Dakota State University and uses that background to shape practical sessions.
Background and approach
Carlyss blends straightforward tools with compassionate listening. Sessions focus on small, manageable steps rather than overwhelming plans. Her style is patient, respectful, and open-minded.
She often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and actions. Mindfulness and acceptance-based techniques help people notice difficult feelings without getting driven by them. Carlyss also draws on elements of dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills for emotion regulation and better communication.
That makes sessions useful for relationship stress, anger, and self-esteem concerns. She adapts each meeting to the person’s goals and life situation. People who appreciate a warm, practical counselor tend to do well here.
Carlyss works with adults across a wide range of concerns, including addictions, parenting stress, career strain, and identity issues. She emphasizes real-world strategies that can be used between sessions to build steady progress.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It encourages choosing actions that fit personal values, which can help with depression, anxiety, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete strategies to test unhelpful beliefs and try new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, OCD tendencies, and mood concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Those skills are often used when anger, relationship stress, or self-regulation are central issues.
Finding the right fit is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose or combine approaches and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is helpful for a face-to-face feel, phone calls can fit during a break or when bandwidth is low, and messaging offers a quick check-in or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside work, school, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- North Dakota, Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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