Carrie Gottschalk, LIMHP

Carrie Gottschalk is a licensed independent mental health practitioner (LIMHP) based in Nebraska who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She uses practical approaches to help people cope with life changes, parenting strain, grief, anger, and career challenges. Carrie also supports those navigating adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and post-traumatic stress.

Carrie describes her style as warm and interactive. Sessions are collaborative and focused on real skills you can use between meetings. She listens for strengths in each person and helps build concrete strategies that fit daily life.

Her work includes cognitive behavioral ideas to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on attachment-focused thinking to understand how relationships shape feelings and coping. Client-centered care guides sessions so people feel heard and respected as they set goals.

When trauma is part of the story, approaches such as EMDR and dialectical behavior therapy skills can be added to reduce overwhelming symptoms and improve emotional regulation. Carrie aims to tailor the plan to each person’s needs rather than follow a one-size-fits-all path.

She brings ten years of clinical experience as a LIMHP and focuses on creating a calm, accepting space to try new ways of managing problems. Conversations tend to be solution-minded and paced to what feels manageable for the client.

If someone is ready to take a step toward change, Carrie works to support and empower that effort with clear tools and steady guidance.

Online approaches that meet you where you are

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change patterns that keep anxiety or low mood going. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape coping and emotional responses, and helps people build more effective ways of relating to others.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Carrie works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try approaches, adjust based on what helps, and focus on realistic steps that fit daily life.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can be used for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or shorter touchpoints between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules and can help maintain continuity when routines change.