About Carrie
Carrie Ryberg is an Illinois-licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of clinical experience helping adults navigate significant life challenges. Her background includes work with depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, addiction, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She draws on targeted therapies such as cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods to tailor care to each client's needs. Her approach emphasizes practical support and skill-building during difficult seasons, focusing on restoring hope, strengthening resilience, and promoting empowerment.
Carrie attends to issues that commonly accompany major transitions, including grief, divorce and separation, family problems, intimacy-related concerns, and midlife adjustments. She also works with people facing mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive patterns, postpartum difficulties, and challenges tied to ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances short-term goals and deeper trauma work when appropriate. Carrie practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English, offering a range of remote formats to accommodate different preferences and schedules.
Evidence-Informed Approaches Delivered Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses structured conversations and practical exercises to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity through guided protocols and bilateral stimulation. Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-focused awareness and self-compassion, supporting emotional regulation and reduction of rumination in mood and anxiety concerns.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences to determine whether CBT, EMDR, mindfulness, or a combination best fits a client's needs, adapting the plan as progress is made and priorities change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and allow clients to access licensed professionals from their homes or workplaces while tailoring interaction style to therapeutic goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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