About Carly
Carly Gelb brings an client-centered, nonjudgmental approach rooted in social work practice to help people navigate anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship challenges, and other life stressors.
Background and approach
As an LCSW with eight years of clinical experience in Illinois, she blends conversational listening with practical tools such as guided meditation, journaling prompts, worksheets, and creative expression to help clients explore internal barriers and build coping skills.
Her work addresses a broad range of concerns including trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related struggles, eating and sleep issues, parenting and career questions, bipolar and mood challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Carly also supports work on attachment and abandonment concerns, communication and control problems, codependency, substance use, and related areas like guilt, shame, and forgiveness.
She strives to keep clients in the lead during sessions while offering structure and interventions drawn from evidence-informed methods. Carly aims to meet people where they are and collaborate on strategies that fit individual preferences and life demands.
She practices in Illinois and offers services in English as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), IL LCSW 149.023733.
Integrating evidence-based approaches into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and build committed action while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than fighting them; it can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors, which is helpful for depression, anxiety, and many day-to-day challenges. Mindfulness therapy offers simple practices to increase present-moment awareness and emotional regulation, supporting work with stress, trauma symptoms, and impulsive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to determine which combination of methods fits their goals, preferences, and circumstances, adjusting strategies as progress unfolds. That collaborative stance helps tailor the work whether someone needs skills training, reflective exploration, or practical behavior change.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging can make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, allow access from different locations within Illinois, and enable continued momentum between sessions through written check-ins and brief exchanges when appropriate.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English