Carrie Ryberg, LCPC

Carrie Ryberg is a licensed clinician who brings 14 years of experience helping adults, adolescents, and couples navigate life transitions, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and the stresses that accompany deployment and military life. She combines practical support with empathy to guide people through divorce, death and loss, financial pressure, abuse, and other traumatic events, helping them build coping skills and find a renewed sense of hope.

With personal insight gained as a former military spouse, she understands the unique demands placed on service members and their families and the adjustments that follow relocation or reintegration. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, addiction, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues, always tailored to the individual needs of the person or couple in care.

Carrie holds the credential LCPC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she practices in Illinois. Her approach emphasizes empowerment, healing, and practical enrichment so clients can move through stressful periods with clearer coping strategies and renewed resilience. She aims to provide steady support during difficult seasons while collaborating with each person to identify realistic goals and pathways forward.

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Carrie uses evidence-informed approaches suited to remote work, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR, along with mindfulness-based techniques. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress and to improve daily functioning. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps process distressing memories and trauma by using structured bilateral stimulation alongside targeted recall to lessen the emotional intensity of past events. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and grounding strategies that can reduce rumination and improve emotional regulation during stressful periods.

Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. Carrie discusses goals, preferences, and responses to treatment with each person and adjusts the plan as progress is made so the approach fits the client rather than the other way around.

Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity through life changes, and access care from home or other convenient locations. These options support flexibility, minimize travel, and allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent, goal-focused therapy across a range of concerns.