- DBT skills
- CBT techniques
- Life purpose work
About Carrie
Carrie Kirchner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 10 years of experience. She sees people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, relationship strain, trauma, or big life changes. She also works with concerns such as ADHD and questions about life purpose.
Carrie focuses on helping people manage intense emotions and regain steadier day-to-day functioning. She uses practical skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and coping strategies. Sessions tend to include clear steps and homework to practice between meetings.
Clients can expect direct, skills-oriented work aimed at reducing impulsive reactions and improving mood and relationships. Carrie often addresses attachment and abandonment issues, control struggles, dissociation, and the effects of trauma or domestic violence. She also helps people process divorce, blended family challenges, and difficult feelings like guilt, shame, emptiness, or isolation.
In sessions she helps people break large problems into manageable tasks. She emphasizes measurable skills like distress tolerance, cognitive reframing, and behavioral experiments. People who feel stuck after changes in work, relationships, or health will find concrete strategies to try.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on what someone wants to change right now. Practical tools, short-term experiments, and steady skill building are central. Those interested should confirm current session options before booking and use the site matching steps to schedule a first appointment.
How CBT and DBT inform online sessions
CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments. It helps with anxiety, low mood, and changing patterns that keep someone stuck. DBT teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage strong reactions and reduce impulsive behavior.Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist and client decide together which techniques to prioritize based on current needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process means plans can be adjusted as skills are learned and situations change.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when a full hour is not possible, and remove travel time. These practical benefits can help someone keep momentum while learning CBT and DBT skills and applying them between meetings.
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Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Missouri
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she work with?
Carrie works with stress, anxiety, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, coping with life changes, and ADHD. She also addresses related areas like attachment, abandonment, and life purpose.
How does she approach feeling stuck?
She uses practical skills from CBT and DBT to teach emotion regulation and coping strategies. Sessions focus on small experiments and homework to try between meetings.
What is her professional background?
Carrie has 10 years of professional experience working with people who have intense emotions and difficulty regulating them. Much of her clinical work has involved borderline personality presentations and related challenges.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats. Confirm current online and in-person options before booking through the site matching steps.
How are sessions billed?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Check the platform details for specific pricing information.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session through the site process.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.