I’m Caroline, and I work as a therapist, spiritual companion, nationally board certified life coach, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, and Breath, Body, Mind teacher. I have a great passion for accompanying clients to engage their wholeness so they can move forward in their lives in meaningful and life-giving ways.

I have a deep and abiding respect for the uniqueness and common humanity of each person’s being and life journey. A particular passion of mine is eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR). I have found it so life-changing in my own, it gives me great joy to watch people utilize this modality within the safe space of therapy and enjoy the life-changes it brings them. In addition to EMDR, IFS (Internal Family Systems) and a variety of other modalities, I utilize meditation, mindfulness, and breath work with my therapy clients.

In addition to offering therapy and spiritual companionship, I also enjoy writing. I aim to speak into the gaps in people’s lives offering ways the Holy Spirit may be calling us into new life. My writing offers reframes for the ways we see and understand our spiritual lives while also offering practices to engage new pathways into living and breathing God’s love right here and now. I deeply believe the Holy Spirit is alive and well in the world, ever calling us to lean into a loving relationship with God, receive God’s love into our beings, and allow that holy love to transform the way we live, love, work, and engage our ourselves and our neighbors.

I am working towards licensure in the State of Tennessee to be a Licensed Professional Counselor, Mental Health Service Provider (LPC/MHSP). You can learn more about my therapy services on the website where I work and am supervised by owner and clinical director Bonnie Barclay.

I co-teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) & MBSR related courses at Mind Body Knox with Lynn Smith, LCSW. The next course will be in January 2025.

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Licensure

Temporary license [LPC/MHSP(T)] in the State of Tennessee, working towards full licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor, Mental Health Service Provider (LPC/MHSP).

Education

Harvard Divinity School (2004-2007) Degree:  Master of Divinity 

Internships:  Dana Farber Cancer Institute & St. John’s Episcopal Church (Jamaica Plain, MA) 

University of Tennessee Medical Center (2003-2004)  Program:  Residency year in Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) 

University of Salamanca, Spain (Nov.2002-June2003) Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Program:  Masters in Psychotherapeutic Interventions/ Study Focus:  Medical Family Therapy, Chronic Illness 

University of Tennessee (1999-2002) Knoxville, Tennessee Degree:  Master of Science in Counseling Education & Counseling Psychology/ Track:  Mental Health Counseling

DePauw University (1994-1998) Greencastle, IN Degree:  Bachelor of Arts in Psychology/ Senior Thesis: Stress and the Immune System 

Certifications 

Breath Body Mind (2023). Certified as a Level One Breath Body Mind instructor.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). (2019). Certified as a Level One MBSR teacher with The Mindfulness Center at Brown University.

Board Certified Coach. (2020). Building on my Masters in Mental Health Counseling & Masters in Divinity to offer opportunities for clients to focus on the present moment and where and how they want to move forward in their lives utilizing healthy practices to harness intentional change. 

Certified Daring WayTM Facilitator. (2015). Trained and experienced facilitator of The Daring Way™ curricula which includes Daring Greatly™, Rising Strong™ and The Gift of Imperfection™ all of which are based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. 

National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. (2002). Successfully met the professional counseling standards established by the Board and in so doing have earned recognition as a National Certified Counselor (NCC).