Corrie Gerster, LPCC

Corrie Gerster is an Ohio-based mental health therapist with 11 years of professional experience, offering clinical support across a range of settings and concerns. She holds an LPCC-S credential, which identifies her as a licensed professional clinical counselor, and she has practiced in school-based, home-based, community-based, residential, and private practice environments. Over the past seven years she has developed focused expertise in working with survivors of human trafficking.

Her clinical work addresses stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse including sexual-based traumas, depression, relationship difficulties, transitions into adulthood or parenting, personality-related concerns, codependency, self-harm and suicidal thoughts, and dynamics in non-traditional relationships. She also supports issues related to attachment and abandonment, body image, grief, intimacy, parenting, career and life purpose, and other mood and adjustment challenges.

Corrie cultivates an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore thoughts and emotions and collaborate on meaningful goals. She primarily integrates cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT and dialectical behavior therapy - DBT skills, alongside client-centered and solution-focused approaches, tailoring techniques to each person’s needs. She acknowledges that beginning therapy can take courage and expresses pride in those who take that initial step toward change.