Carolyn works with individuals, couples, and families from an attachment perspective helping them navigate anxiety, loneliness, shame, abuse, depression, grief / loss, anger / aggression, premarital and marital issues, parenting and family challenges, divorce recovery, and conflict resolution. She is certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an intervention that is based on scientific study of adult love and bonding processes in couples, and is passionate about helping people connect to others.
 
Carolyn approaches counseling with the deeply felt belief, “Your story matters.” With her warm, direct, and empathetic style, she invites her clients deeper into their stories, leveraging her life lessons, education, clinical experience, and personal faith to bring new insight into their experience. As her clients connect their internal worlds of thinking and feeling to their external worlds of behavior, they are better able to establish genuine and meaningful relationships.

After personally experiencing the positive impact of therapy, Carolyn began pursuing a counseling career and earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Texas in the spring of 2002. Because of her passion for strengthening marriages, Carolyn pursued her certification in EFT and became one of the founding directors of the Austin EFT community group. Carolyn joined ALCS in 2004, where she counsels clients and enjoys mentoring Associate therapists on staff.

Carolyn and her husband have been married and served in ministry since 1983. They have raised four boys into adulthood, and Carolyn’s personal and professional experience have convinced her that every story includes some pain and disconnection. Carolyn can equip you with new skills, guiding you through a process of healing and reconnection as your story takes a new direction.
 
For further information about next steps to see Carolyn, please visit our Scheduling page. For specific questions, email Carolyn at carolyn@abundantlifecounseling.com