- Focus on trauma
- Support for parents
- Strengths based
About Carly
Carly Basler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people navigate hard moments. She meets teens, young adults, and adults who feel stuck by anxiety, depression, trauma, or major life changes. Carly aims to listen without judgement and help each person find practical steps forward.
She has five years of clinical experience and has worked a great deal with youth and families involved in the child welfare system. That background informs her work with adoption and foster care concerns and with people who have faced significant life challenges.
Carly keeps therapy collaborative and straightforward. She helps clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and then practices skills to respond differently. Sessions often focus on building emotion regulation, stress management, and coping tools that can be used day to day.
The approach is warm and strengths based. Carly looks for what is already working in a person's life and builds from there. Parents and caregivers can expect clear communication about goals and step-by-step strategies to try between sessions.
People who choose Carly can expect a calm, practical space to sort through grief, trauma, parenting challenges, or burnout. She works from Illinois and conducts sessions in English, and she encourages prospective clients to pick the Start Therapy button to begin the matching process.
Approaches and how online sessions can help
CBT helps people notice patterns of thinking that keep them stuck and replace unhelpful thoughts with more useful ones. It often includes short exercises and practical strategies to change behavior and reduce worry or low mood.DBT emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills for strong feelings and relationship stress. It teaches concrete techniques for tolerating distress, improving communication, and managing impulses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and what feels manageable in everyday life. Goals and strategies can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
The practical advantages of online therapy can include fitting sessions into a busy schedule and reducing travel time. The biography does not list which session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to keep appointments around work, school, or caregiving duties and let people practice skills between meetings without adding extra commute time.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
5+ years
Credentials
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Carly address?
She works with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, with additional focus on adoption and foster care and related family issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm, collaborative, and nonjudgmental. She emphasizes practical skills and a strengths-based approach to help people manage emotions and everyday stress.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years of experience working in clinical settings, including work with youth and families involved in the child welfare system.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in Illinois.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current session options before booking.
How are sessions paid for and what do they cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Carly?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.