About Carly
Carly Gelb uses a client-centered approach to help people find steady ground during hard times. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eight years of experience and listens without judgment. Carly focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She often brings simple tools into sessions like journaling and guided meditation. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, or addictions. Relationship struggles, low self-esteem, grief, trauma, and intimacy-related concerns are also common topics she addresses.
Background and approach
Carly works with issues that range from sleep and eating problems to career stress and coping with life changes. Carly blends practical therapies such as acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. She also uses dialectical behavior skills and mindfulness practices when they fit a person’s goals.
The emphasis is on skills people can try between sessions to notice small changes. Sessions may include talking, worksheets, art activities, or brief mindfulness exercises. Those tools are introduced at a pace that feels manageable.
The aim is to help people make clearer choices and reduce patterns that cause pain. People in Illinois can connect with Carly for video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. She offers guidance on parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and many other concerns.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that fits your timing.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where avoidance keeps a person stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with depression, anxiety, and sleep or eating issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Carly will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they decide whether to focus on values-based action, thought-work, skill-building from DBT, or simple mindfulness practices.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, progress notes, or when someone prefers writing between scheduled sessions. These options make fitting therapy into a busy life more flexible and accessible for many people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English