Carol Quinn, LPCC, Ph.D, M.Ed

Rogers

Healing happens in relationships. I believe all people are trying their best with what they have 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 a space to explore the issues most important to you and to reach your own conclusions.

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 for 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
Grief and loss
Transpersonal issues (e.g. near-death experiences, after-death communications, spiritual encounters)
Immigration and refugee issues
Work in the medical profession

After my master’s program at Louisiana State University, I received my PhD in Counseling at the University of North Texas. I conducted research in children’s experiences in child-centered play therapy, a child-led and relationally-focused approach recognizing play as an effective means of communication. I aim to time interventions to sensitively align with a child’s sense of readiness.

I am also trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, which uses guided eye movements and visualization to create new mental images of difficult experiences. Clients using ART remember the facts about the event while getting rid of painful and upsetting feelings. ART does not require giving a lot of detail about what happened and can be effective in 1-5 sessions.

Outside of work, I like visiting state parks, taking community education classes, connecting with friends and neighbors, identifying mushrooms and native plants, and delighting in my toddler.

“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