About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of experience. She offers calm, direct support when life feels overwhelming. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people manage strong emotions and make steady changes.
Carrie helps people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, addiction challenges, parenting stress, and ADHD-related concerns. Sessions focus on clear steps clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work blends cognitive behavioral strategies with mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. She uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for trauma when appropriate. Motivational interviewing helps people move past ambivalence and try new behaviors.
In sessions Carrie listens for what matters most and then suggests concrete tools. She often breaks skills into small, manageable actions so progress feels realistic. The tone is respectful and hopeful rather than clinical or vague.
Carrie practices in Illinois and works in English. She draws on her life experience, including time as a military spouse, to understand stress linked to deployment and transitions. People who want straightforward guidance and practical plans tend to find her style a good fit.
How Carrie’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence to change behaviors and mood. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, helps people process past traumatic memories by combining memory recall with guided bilateral stimulation; it is commonly used for post-traumatic stress and trauma-related distress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carrie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then recommend techniques to try. She adjusts methods over time so the plan fits the person’s needs and they can track progress together.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels uncomfortable. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or to keep momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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