Carissa Shobe, LPC

Carissa Shobe is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 15 years working in mental health and substance use settings. She focuses on practical skills that help reduce distress and shift unhelpful coping patterns. Carissa speaks plainly and aims to help people move toward the life they want.

Her approach is trauma-informed and looks at the whole person. She helps clients recognize strengths, learn new ways to manage stress, and replace behaviors that cause harm. Sessions focus on building concrete tools that fit daily life rather than abstract theory.

Carissa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Mindfulness Therapy to increase moment-to-moment awareness. These methods are used together to match what each person needs.

She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem. Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, eating and food-related issues, gender dysphoria, and life purpose.

Carissa aims for sessions that are straightforward and useful. She helps people practice skills between meetings and adjusts strategies as progress unfolds. Her goal is to support steady, manageable change.

How Carissa’s approaches work online

Carissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT gives simple tools to change thinking patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or addiction.

She also applies Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal effectiveness. DBT tools can help when emotions feel overwhelming or when coping strategies cause more harm than good. Mindfulness practices are used to steady attention and reduce reactivity by noticing thoughts and feelings without immediate action.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting strategies as you practice skills and see what helps. This is a collaborative process focused on practical steps.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone can be a quicker check-in with lower bandwidth needs, and messaging supports ongoing skill practice between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and stay consistent with care.