Carrie Ryberg

Carrie Ryberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 14 years of experience. She works with adults, adolescents, and couples who are facing divorce, loss, financial strain, relationship trouble, traumatic events, abuse, or deployment and transition stress. Carrie aims to offer steady support during hard moments and help people find hope and practical next steps.

Her background includes many years helping people with depression, anxiety, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. She also brings lived experience from military family life and understands challenges tied to deployment and frequent moves. That perspective informs how she talks with clients about stressors and life changes.

Carrie uses straightforward methods in sessions. She draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. Sessions focus on building coping skills, managing symptoms, and setting clear goals for change.

People who meet with her typically work on relationship struggles, parenting stress, grief, addictions, and challenges like ADHD, bipolar mood patterns, or obsessive behaviors. She also helps with codependency, divorce recovery, family of origin issues, and compassion fatigue.

Carrie’s style is practical and collaborative. She listens, helps prioritize what matters, and supports steps clients can try between sessions. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.

How Trauma-Focused and Cognitive Approaches Work Online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, often called CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and mood concerns by building practical coping tools and activity plans.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and reducing the long-term effects of traumatic events. It guides people through manageable steps to process memories and lower their day-to-day distress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a method used to target distressing memories and the reactions they trigger through a guided processing approach.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences and then recommend an approach or mix of methods. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted over time based on what helps.

Confirm the available session formats before booking because the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make scheduling easier, help fit sessions into a busy day, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use shorter check-ins or audio-only options when that suits their needs. Licensed professionals can adapt Trauma-Focused Therapy, CBT, and EMDR to virtual sessions when appropriate, and the therapist will discuss what will work best for each person during the first meetings.