Carrie Ryberg , LCPC

Carrie Ryberg is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with extensive experience supporting adults, adolescents, and couples through a wide range of life challenges. She draws on years of clinical practice working with people facing divorce, death and loss, financial strain, relationship conflict, traumatic events, abuse, and the unique stresses of military life and deployment. As a former military spouse, she brings lived insight into the demands military service places on individuals and families and uses that perspective to inform empathetic, practical care.

Carrie works with issues including stress and anxiety, trauma and post-traumatic stress, depression, addictions, family and parenting concerns, intimacy and relationship difficulties, self-esteem struggles, mood disorders such as bipolar, and attention-related challenges like ADHD. She also addresses grief, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and more specific concerns such as codependency, domestic violence, and family-of-origin problems. Her clinical toolkit includes approaches aimed at symptom relief, skill building, and long-term resilience.

Known for a calm, supportive stance, Carrie helps clients navigate difficult periods and identify strengths that promote hope, healing, empowerment, and enrichment. She aims to create a collaborative therapeutic process that focuses on practical coping strategies as well as deeper emotional work, helping people move toward clearer goals and improved daily functioning.

Approaches and Online Care with an Experienced LCPC

Carrie combines evidence-based methods to address symptoms and build coping skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change behaviors that get in the way of daily functioning. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to process traumatic memories and reduce the intensity of distress linked to past events; it can be particularly helpful for those who have experienced abuse, deployment-related trauma, or other overwhelming incidents. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and stress regulation techniques that support emotion management and reduce reactivity in relationships and everyday life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Carrie works with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts techniques over time so therapy aligns with what is most helpful for the individual or couple. This collaborative stance aims to empower clients to be active participants in their care.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules or geographic constraints. Video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging allow therapy to fit into work, family, and military life without long commutes. These options make it easier to maintain consistency in care, try different communication styles, and access licensed professionals from wherever you are in Illinois.