Carrie Ryberg , LCPC

Carrie Ryberg is an LCPC - a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - with 14 years of clinical experience helping adults, adolescents, and couples navigate difficult life transitions. She draws on extensive work with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship challenges, and grief to offer grounded support during times of upheaval. Her practice also addresses parenting concerns, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related issues, as well as family-of-origin and family problem dynamics.

Carrie brings particular insight into military life and its impact on individuals and families, informed by her experience as a former military spouse and by work with deployment and transition-related concerns. She regularly supports people coping with divorce and separation, domestic violence aftermath, isolation and loneliness, and the emotional fallout of major life changes. Her approach aims to restore self-esteem, improve coping skills, and help clients move toward empowerment and enrichment.

Clients work with Carrie on practical goals such as managing symptoms, repairing relationships, redefining roles after loss or change, and building resilience. She combines evidence-based techniques with a collaborative style to help people find hope and practical strategies for healing and growth.

Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Support

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is practical and goal-oriented, commonly used to address anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship difficulties by teaching skills for daily coping and problem solving.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, known as EMDR, helps people process distressing memories and reduce the hold traumatic events have on current functioning. It is often used for post-traumatic stress and other trauma-related symptoms to support emotional processing and symptom reduction.

Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and acceptance, offering tools to manage overwhelming emotions, reduce reactivity, and improve focus. It can be helpful for stress management, mood regulation, and cultivating resilience during life transitions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Licensed professionals will work with each person to consider symptoms, goals, and personal preferences, and to tailor a plan that may combine methods or adapt over time as needs change.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during transitions, and access support from home or other convenient locations, while working with therapists who use evidence-based approaches.