Carrie KirchnerLPC

Carrie Kirchner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and everyday stress. She supports people coping with anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. Carrie writes in straightforward terms and aims to make the first step feel less overwhelming for someone seeking change.

Carrie draws on approaches that emphasize skill-building and practical strategies. She uses methods from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and learn ways to manage intense feelings. Sessions include concrete tools for handling distress and improving day-to-day functioning.

Over about a decade of practice she has worked with people who struggle with regulation of emotion, impulsivity, dissociation, and attachment wounds. Her background includes experience supporting people facing relationship pain, blended family strain, grief from separation or divorce, and challenges tied to body image, guilt, or shame.

In sessions she treats people as the experts on their lives and builds on individual strengths. She focuses on teaching coping skills, creating safety around intense emotions, and setting practical goals. The approach is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.

Carrie encourages those ready to try therapy to take a small next step. She offers a clear match process to connect people to a therapist and to schedule sessions that fit into everyday life.

How CBT and DBT inform online therapy with a licensed counselor

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change thinking patterns that feed anxiety or depression. It uses practical exercises and behavior experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and improving relationships. It offers step-by-step skills to manage intense feelings and reduce impulsive or self-harming behaviors.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT, DBT strategies, or a mix makes the most sense based on goals and daily challenges. That decision is revisited as progress or setbacks occur so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as shorter check-ins around work breaks or avoiding travel time. It also allows continued practice of skills in the environments where people live and cope, which can help generalize new habits to everyday routines.