Carrie Kirchner, LPC

Carrie Kirchner is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Missouri who focuses on helping people manage strong emotions and everyday struggles. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar symptoms, trauma, and life changes. Carrie emphasizes practical steps and steady support so people can start feeling more capable in daily life.

Carrie draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to guide sessions. She helps clients notice patterns in thinking and behavior, try small changes, and build skills for managing intense feelings. Sessions often include skill practice, emotion regulation tools, and clear goals the person sets.

Her decade of experience includes work with people who have trouble regulating big emotions and those diagnosed with borderline personality presentations. Carrie frames the client as the expert on their own story and focuses on strengths already present. She aims to make therapy a place for learning practical skills rather than just talking about problems.

Sessions are intended to be collaborative and goal-focused. Carrie supports people through relationship strain, recovery from abuse, coping with separation or divorce, issues with impulsivity or dissociation, and concerns about identity and life purpose. The approach is steady, straightforward, and skills-based.

People who want clear tools for handling anxiety, anger, or mood swings may find her style a good fit. For anyone considering starting, she asks for a first step of sharing what feels most urgent so together they can set manageable goals.

Approaches that teach emotion skills online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people notice how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and to practice new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.

DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, focuses on emotion regulation and coping with intense feelings. It teaches concrete skills for tolerating distress, improving relationships, and staying grounded when emotions run high.

Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and daily routines, then pick strategies that fit. This often means trying skills in session and adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow work on skills between meetings. The original profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm which online options are available before booking. Online work can still focus on the same CBT and DBT exercises used in person while aiming to help people manage strong emotions and handle day-to-day challenges.