About Carol
My journey to becoming a therapist came full circle. After completing my undergraduate degree in political science with an emphasis in International Relations at UCLA, I was planning to go to graduate school with a dual degree in social work and law. However, my plans were re-directed during my senior year of college after my boyfriend was killed in a tragic car accident and my best friend died in his sleep from a virus that went to his heart. To get over the grief and loss, I instead buried myself in working long hours in the film industry for many years. The long hours are difficult for raising a family and after the birth of my two children I decided to leave the film industry so I could devote my time as a mother. While my children were toddlers, I personally experienced the healing of my grief through compassionate therapeutic encounters. I wished I had seen a therapist much earlier in my life. Understanding the positive impact therapy can have on a person's life, I decided to go back to school to pursue my Master’s and Ph.D. degree in psychology.
While doing my internship hours as a marriage family therapist, I worked in various high schools in Los Angeles. After having hundreds of therapeutic conversations with teens and parents, I decided to write a book to help reach more parents and teens. I found that teens and parents could effectively talk with a therapist, but were struggling to effectively talk with each other. Written through letters from parents and teens, my book offers a way for both sides to be listened to and heard. Tuning In To Your Teen will be available in December of 2011.
As a result of writing the parenting teen book, I was contacted to be a contributor in the book Adventures of Manifesting: Success and Spirituality including notable authors from The Secret (Dr. Fred Alan Wolf and Dr. Joe Vitale) and bestselling authors Brian Tracy and Dr. Marilyn Joyce. In my chapter called Conscious Decisions, I describe the possibility of raising happy, healthy, resilient children in spite of the challenges of divorce.
I currently work as a psychotherapist in Los Angeles and enjoy writing books and holding workshops on stress reduction for parents and teens. My Ph.D. dissertation explores how somatic regulation affects both parents and teens. I am currently completing my Ph.D. at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. My specialties include: somatic psychology, spiritual psychology, EMDR, sensorimotor psychology, trauma, parent-teen interactions, and divorce mediation.
My passion is serving others. I have volunteered hundreds of hours at Common Ground for HIV/AIDS, Stuart House for sexually abused children, UCLA Medical Center, and Cedars Sinai Hospital. In recent years, I traveled to Uganda to help the underserved. This past May, I traveled to India to help trauma-healing programs being initiated in South Africa and Southern Sudan. It is my desire to build awareness and support the needs of those who have little access to resources.
While doing my internship hours as a marriage family therapist, I worked in various high schools in Los Angeles. After having hundreds of therapeutic conversations with teens and parents, I decided to write a book to help reach more parents and teens. I found that teens and parents could effectively talk with a therapist, but were struggling to effectively talk with each other. Written through letters from parents and teens, my book offers a way for both sides to be listened to and heard. Tuning In To Your Teen will be available in December of 2011.
As a result of writing the parenting teen book, I was contacted to be a contributor in the book Adventures of Manifesting: Success and Spirituality including notable authors from The Secret (Dr. Fred Alan Wolf and Dr. Joe Vitale) and bestselling authors Brian Tracy and Dr. Marilyn Joyce. In my chapter called Conscious Decisions, I describe the possibility of raising happy, healthy, resilient children in spite of the challenges of divorce.
I currently work as a psychotherapist in Los Angeles and enjoy writing books and holding workshops on stress reduction for parents and teens. My Ph.D. dissertation explores how somatic regulation affects both parents and teens. I am currently completing my Ph.D. at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. My specialties include: somatic psychology, spiritual psychology, EMDR, sensorimotor psychology, trauma, parent-teen interactions, and divorce mediation.
My passion is serving others. I have volunteered hundreds of hours at Common Ground for HIV/AIDS, Stuart House for sexually abused children, UCLA Medical Center, and Cedars Sinai Hospital. In recent years, I traveled to Uganda to help the underserved. This past May, I traveled to India to help trauma-healing programs being initiated in South Africa and Southern Sudan. It is my desire to build awareness and support the needs of those who have little access to resources.