Carrie Gottschalk , LIMHP

Carrie Gottschalk is a LIMHP (Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner) practicing in Nebraska with 10 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, interactive counseling style that centers on respect, sensitivity, and genuine compassion while adapting her approach to each person’s needs and circumstances.

Carrie emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for change, creating an accepting space where clients can explore challenges and build on their strengths. Her work is solution-focused and geared toward helping people identify practical problem-solving strategies, often incorporating a person’s natural family supports as part of the plan.

She supports people facing stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief, parenting and family concerns, relationship difficulties, career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and the complexities of adoption and foster care or attachment issues. Carrie blends clinical tools with a collaborative, strength-based orientation to help clients move through life changes and develop coping skills that fit their daily reality.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and emotion. It helps clients understand and rework relational dynamics, and can be especially relevant for adoption, foster care, and attachment concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and everyday challenges by building new coping strategies.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a structured method used to help people process distressing memories and the emotions linked to them. It is commonly applied when trauma or post-traumatic stress are part of the presenting concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Carrie works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to determine which methods best match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts direction over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy life, enable consistent follow-up between meetings, and allow therapists to use the same evidence-based approaches in ways that work for each client.