Dr. Carlos Del Rio

Dr. Carlos Del Rio is a clinical mental health counselor who works with individuals, couples, families, and groups from diverse backgrounds.

He focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, and coping with life changes. He holds national certification as a counselor and is licensed in Nebraska as an independent mental health practitioner (NE LIMHP 1864); he is also a licensed professional counselor in Illinois. He has three years of experience providing therapy services and has taught and supervised future mental health professionals.

His clinical practice addresses anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, adaptation to life-changing events, and existential concerns. In work with couples and families he concentrates on shared, practical goals such as sexuality, relationship satisfaction, healing, and grieving within systemic contexts. He draws primarily on a Rogerian stance alongside systemic methods - structural, generational, emotional, and solution-focused - and selects techniques to match each person or relationship’s needs.

Dr. Del Rio’s research interests include spirituality, sexuality, virtue ethics, process groups, clinical supervision, and couples and family therapy. He is the author of the Spiritual Typology Inventory, a non-religious assessment of human spirituality based on his theory of Hylomorphic Attitudinal Spirituality. He approaches therapy as a collaborative process that helps people make sense of their experiences and choose changes to improve their lives, and he is available to provide video therapy when that option is preferred.