About Carly
Carly Basler meets people where they are and helps them find practical ways forward. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she aims to make sessions calm and straightforward. Parents reading on a phone will find plain language and short conversations about hard things.
Carly keeps the focus on small steps that add up over time. Her work often centers on trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, major life changes, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She also addresses adoption and foster care history, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, and caregiver stress. Carly has experience with body image, eating and food-related concerns, family of origin issues, and struggles with guilt, shame, and emptiness. Carly draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and practice different coping skills.
Sessions include skill-building for emotional regulation and clearer communication. The approach is collaborative - goals are set together and adjusted as needs change. She has five years of practice and a background working with youth and families involved in the child welfare system.
That work informs how she sees patterns in relationships and the reactions people develop after trauma. Carly treats each person as resourceful and able to build on their strengths. Sessions are offered to adults and young adults in Illinois who prefer phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Carly aims to make therapy fit busy lives by focusing on concrete tools and steady progress.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking and acting. It is practical and works well for anxiety, low mood, and some stress-related problems.Techniques drawn from skills-based therapies focus on emotional regulation and coping strategies. These tools teach ways to manage strong feelings, improve communication, and reduce overwhelm in everyday situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. The plan is adjusted over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English