About Carrie
Carrie Wallace-Onifade offers support for people navigating relationship struggles, family tensions, self-esteem challenges, career hurdles, and major life transitions. With 13 years of clinical experience and an Illinois LCSW license, she centers clients' lived experience and strengths when helping them move toward clearer goals.
Background and approach
Carrie emphasizes that taking the first step toward greater fulfillment takes courage and seeks to provide steady guidance through that process. Carrie draws on practical, evidence-based strategies to help clients address communication problems, codependency, commitment and infidelity concerns, blended family dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and other family of origin or fertility-related difficulties.
She also works with people facing divorce or separation, dependent personality patterns, fatherhood questions, and the search for life purpose. Her practice aims to bolster confidence, increase motivation, and support meaningful change while honoring each person as the expert of their own story.
Evidence-Informed Approaches and Online Access
Many clients find benefit from practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on improving communication and building coping skills. One common approach helps people identify patterns in relationships and family interactions and then practice new ways of relating and problem solving to reduce conflict and improve connection. Another set of techniques emphasizes strengthening self-esteem and motivation through goal-setting, skill building, and reframing unhelpful beliefs to support career decisions and life transitions.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative exploration helps shape session focus and pacing so that interventions feel relevant and manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access support from home or work. These formats offer flexibility in scheduling and allow clients to continue work between sessions through written exchanges or brief messaging, supporting steady progress even when in-person visits are not possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English