About Carrie
Carrie Gottschalk is a licensed independent mental health practitioner (LIMHP) based in Nebraska who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and life transitions. She approaches sessions with warmth and practical focus so clients can start making small changes that add up. Her style is interactive and respectful, centered on each person’s strengths and goals.
Carrie emphasizes a strong therapeutic relationship. She listens carefully and adapts conversations to what feels most useful.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on problem-solving, building coping skills, and making actionable plans that fit daily life. She uses straightforward language and collaborative planning so people know what to expect. Her background includes ten years of professional experience as a LIMHP working with concerns such as trauma, attachment issues, adoption and foster care questions, compassion fatigue, and parenting strain.
She brings experience with several evidence-informed methods and chooses tools that match each individual’s needs. In practice, Carrie blends skill-building with emotional processing. That might look like learning emotion-regulation techniques, practicing new ways to set boundaries, or processing past traumatic events when appropriate.
The pace and techniques are set together so work stays relevant and doable. Carrie aims to help people feel more capable in daily life. She supports clients in building routines, managing overwhelming moments, and finding clearer steps forward.
If someone wants a practical, collaborative approach, she offers steady guidance and focused work.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Carrie commonly uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people notice how they relate to others and work on healthier ways of connecting. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to break problems into manageable pieces and practice different thoughts and actions. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and everyday stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Carrie discusses goals and preferences with each person and tries methods that fit their needs. She checks in often to see what helps and adjusts the plan so work stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions or use shorter check-ins during busy days. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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