Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
How Carissa works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 15
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Carissa
Carissa Shobe is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience in mental health and substance use work. She focuses on helping people lower day-to-day distress and build practical skills that fit real life. Her style is straightforward and strengths-based, with attention to how past hurt shows up now.
Carissa uses a trauma-aware outlook to help people understand their coping habits. She works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood differences, addiction, and anger.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing issues like low self-esteem, attachment wounds, shame and guilt, and life purpose questions. In sessions she blends short-term skills with longer-term insight. That can look like learning tools to manage strong emotions and practicing different ways to respond to triggers.
She pays attention to patterns that keep problems going and helps people try small changes between sessions. Her work includes support for people navigating substance and alcohol struggles, eating and food-related problems, and complex reactions after trauma or abuse. She also addresses topics such as communication problems, codependency, dissociation, and identity concerns including gender dysphoria.
Carissa aims to help people move toward goals they name for themselves. She invites clients to set practical steps and checks progress as therapy continues. The focus is on useful change, one step at a time.
What Carissa works with
Everything Carissa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Carissa's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
Approaches Carissa lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach and options for online sessions
Carissa uses methods that teach concrete skills and help people better manage intense feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, provides tools for handling strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness. Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity and increase self-awareness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend or combine approaches that fit the person seeking help. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different days and schedules. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging are convenient for brief check-ins, between-session questions, and steady support. These options aim to make consistent therapy easier to fit into everyday life.
Questions people ask about Carissa
What kinds of concerns does this therapist help with?
Common issues include stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, trauma and abuse, anger, and self-esteem problems. Additional focuses include attachment issues, communication problems, dissociation, and life purpose questions.
How would you describe the therapeutic approach and style?
The approach is trauma-aware and strengths-focused, with an emphasis on practical skills. Sessions combine short-term tools to manage emotions and longer-term work on patterns that keep problems going.
What background and experience does the clinician have?
The therapist has 15 years of experience working in mental health and substance use fields. That background informs work with addiction, trauma, and mood-related concerns.
Where is the therapist licensed and based?
The clinician is a Licensed Professional Counselor, credentialed as PA LPC, and practices from Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with this therapist?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available for online work?
Sessions may take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different scheduling needs and preferences.
How are costs handled and how do I begin?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability.