Carissa Shobe, LPC

Carissa Shobe is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with more than 15 years of experience in mental health and substance use care. She focuses on helping people reduce distress and build skills that support long-term goals. Carissa emphasizes practical steps clients can use between sessions.

Carissa uses a trauma-informed, whole-person outlook. She looks for strengths to build on while addressing unhealthy coping patterns. That approach is often applied when people face stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, bipolar symptoms, trauma and abuse, or anger issues.

Sessions are practical and skill-focused. Clients work on managing stress, improving emotion regulation, and developing clearer communication. Carissa draws from cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thinking and from dialectical behavior strategies to teach coping skills.

Mindfulness techniques are used to help people notice moments of distress and respond differently. The goal is to offer tools that fit daily life and support steady progress toward personal aims like better self-esteem or less isolation.

She also addresses many related concerns such as attachment issues, codependency, substance use, eating and food-related problems, gender dysphoria, and issues around sexual expression like BDSM and kink. Carissa aims to help people reconnect with their values and find workable steps toward their goals.

To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How Cognitive and Mindful Methods Work Online

Carissa uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; this approach is often used for anxiety, depression, and some addiction-related patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy provides practical coping skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and enhancing interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and awareness practices to reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment choice.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose or blend these methods based on their goals, current struggles, and what feels workable in daily life. Clients set priorities and try techniques to see what helps most.

Confirm current session options before booking to learn which formats are available. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. They also let people practice skills in the settings where problems occur, which can help transfer learning into everyday routines.