Carol Quinn, Ph.D, M.Ed

Rogers

I will be on leave until approximately July 1, 2025.

Healing happens in relationship with other humans. I believe all people are trying their best with what they have available and consider it an honor to be with others as they explore their own capacity for growth and fulfillment. I trust that adults and children alike are moving toward betterment and can access all of their innate internal resources only when they feel safe and entirely accepted. I prioritize the therapeutic relationship between myself and my clients and hope to offer you a space you can use to explore the issues most important to you and to reach your own conclusions.

I enjoy working with clients from diverse backgrounds and am affirming of the spectrum of identities clients may find pertinent. I have supported clients ranging in age from early childhood to late adulthood and have worked in school, hospital, and outpatient settings. I find that each counseling process is uniquely suited to the person undertaking it and allow myself to be moved by the moments of courage and sometimes great pain which can accompany this work. I trust clients to make the best decisions for themselves, including when to begin counseling, what issues to address, and how much to share about topics they may find sensitive. I view my role as one of a loyal companion rather than a leader, recognizing that each client enters counseling with a great deal of wisdom and personal experience. I approach my work from a secular perspective and integrate spiritual components when this is an important feature to clients.

I am delighted to join with clients for many reasons that they may want to begin therapy. I especially enjoy serving clients experiencing:

· Fertility and perinatal issues

· Chronic illness

· Grief and loss

· Transpersonal issues (e.g. near-death experiences, after-death communications, spiritual encounters)

· Immigration and refugee issues

· Impact of childhood sexual abuse on adult survivors

· Life transitions

· Self-esteem issues

After my master’s program at Louisiana State University, I wanted to continue my education to offer quality services to children and families. I completed my PhD in Counseling at the University of North Texas, where I received specialized training in counseling children and play therapy. As adults use words to express and understand their experiences, children use play as a form of communication. My office includes carefully selected toys to provide “words” to children in order to explore and understand their experiences in a way that matches their developmental level. Parents are often concerned with children developing skills and strategies

to address certain issues, which indeed can be an invaluable part of the counseling process. However, I am first focused on helping children develop understandings of themselves as capable and complete. I aim to time interventions to sensitively align with your child’s sense of readiness. I am not able to, nor do I want to, “do therapy” to a person of any age without a well-developed relationship in place.

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.”

-Helen Keller

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