About Carrie
Carrie Kirchner is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage strong emotions and everyday struggles. She draws on a decade of clinical experience to offer steady support and practical tools. Many people come to her for help with anxiety, depression, stress, anger, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and problems tied to self-esteem.
She speaks plain language and focuses on what can change now. Carrie emphasizes emotion regulation and skills training in sessions.
Background and approach
She uses strategies from dialectical behavior therapy to help people tolerate intense feelings and reduce impulsive reactions. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new behaviors. Her work centers on collaboration.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them set realistic goals. Sessions often include concrete exercises, practice assignments, and simple experiments to try between meetings. Clients who benefit most tend to want hands-on coping strategies and clear steps for handling overwhelming emotions.
Carrie helps people break problems into manageable pieces and track small, useful changes over time. She also addresses issues like attachment wounds, identity concerns, and the emotional fallout of separation or loss. She is licensed in Missouri as an LPC and has ten years of experience.
Sessions are conducted in English and can use a mix of formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How DBT and CBT Translate to Online Care
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced ones. It often involves tracking moods, practicing new behaviors, and testing small changes to see what works for day-to-day problems.Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It teaches concrete skills to manage big feelings, reduce impulsive reactions, and improve how people interact with others.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked in the past. Together they adjust methods and pace so the work matches the client's needs.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls let therapists observe nonverbal cues and run skill demonstrations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, practice reminders, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue skill practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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