Carolyn is a Licensed Master Social Worker who specialized in treating complex trauma and dissociation. She spent years training in various trauma and dissociative treatments. Today she no longer uses many of the approaches she studied because they did little to resolve people’s difficulties.

It was not until she began studying transpersonal psychology and perennial philosophy that she recognized she finally was given the understanding and the tools to help people heal. Today she practices sanity versus insanity of therapies which yield little results. She is a hypnotherapist and has studied with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Newton Institute Alliance Training Program and has been a student of the Institute for Therapeutic Learning since early 2021. She is a 200-hour yoga teacher and continues to use her Sensorimotor Psychotherapy training.

She holds a Master of Social Work from Grand Valley State University where her research focused on the spiritual dynamics of and healing from clergy sexual assault. While at Grand Valley, she was awarded the Faculty Recognition Award for Macro Practice, was a member of both the Phi Alpha Honor Society for Social Workers and the Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society, and graduated with a 4.0 GPA.

Carolyn also holds a Master of Arts in Theology from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago where she did independent studies on Christian mysticism, spiritual direction, and spiritual development. She studied spirituality briefly at the University of Creation Spirituality in San Francisco and has studied spiritualism and mediumship at The Arthur Findlay College in the UK, Lily Dale Assembly in New York, and Trilogy Institute also in New York. She is a certified medium through the Trilogy Institute.

In addition to her clinical work, Carolyn has taught individual counseling and social welfare policy classes as an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work at Grand Valley State University. She is a Reiki Master Teacher, has studied Qi Gong and has training in spiritual dream circle facilitation. 

She has authored Fighting the Good Fight: Healing and Advocacy after Clergy Sexual Assault based on her research with eighteen adult female survivors of clergy sexual assault. Her book has been awarded three 2014 USA Best Book Finalist Awards and she has presented her research at the Seventh International Conference of Qualitative Inquiry and at Grand Valley State University’s Graduate Showcase. Carolyn has been a guest on both The Drew Marshall Show: Canada’s Most Listened to Spiritual Talk Show and interviewed on IN Session on Court TV regarding clergy sexual assault. She has taught the YMCA of the USA Child Abuse Prevention program to YMCA staff members.  She was involved in the interfaith movement in both Chicago and West Michigan and has experience working with people from a variety of belief systems.

In her free time, Carolyn enjoys spending time with her family and reading.