Carrie Ryberg, LCPC

Carrie Ryberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and tough life transitions. She practices in Illinois and offers straightforward support for issues like depression, trauma, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. Carrie uses practical strategies to help people move forward. Carrie draws on approaches that include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and mindfulness to tailor care to each person's needs. She breaks down big problems into manageable steps and helps people practice new thoughts and behaviors between sessions. Sessions often focus on specific goals and small, steady changes. Her experience includes work related to grief, addiction, compassion fatigue, and ADHD concerns, as well as codependency, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues. She also supports people coping with obsessive thoughts, phobias, postpartum depression, and post-traumatic stress. Carrie combines several methods to match what a person needs in the moment. Sessions may include problem-solving, guided mindfulness exercises, and tools to reduce anxiety. EMDR is offered for processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to build motivation and identify clear next steps. People find the approach practical and goal-oriented. Carrie aims to create a calm environment where clients can speak plainly about what’s hard and leave with real skills to try. She helps people notice progress and adjust plans as life changes.

How chosen approaches work in online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day problems by teaching practical skills to change patterns that cause distress.

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories by using guided bilateral stimulation alongside focused recall. It can reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions and make memories feel less disruptive to daily life.

Carrie views choosing a therapeutic approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Plans are adjusted based on what feels most helpful and what produces progress in real life.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options let people get consistent support without travel and help maintain momentum between appointments.