Creating Healthy Connections Starts Here
Behind Every Argument Is the Question:
Do You Still Care?
Therapy for families, couples, and high-stress professionals ready to rebuild trust, repair emotional wounds, and feel close again.
Connection isn’t lost. It’s waiting to be remembered.
Maybe you’ve hit a wall in your relationship. Maybe you’re the strong one in the family who’s finally ready to be vulnerable. Or maybe the silence and strain have gone on so long that disconnection feels like the norm.
At Creating Healthy Connections, I help you come back to what matters most—honest conversation, emotional safety, and the deep healing that happens in relationships.
📍 Licensed in Maryland, Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia
“Carol is amazing! My husband and I are forever grateful for her helping us identify our “broken record” and stopping the cycles. Our relationship is stronger than ever. We always looked forward to our meetings with Carol to stay connected.”
Counseling for Stress & Anxiety
You’ve Carried the Weight Long Enough.
- You’re tired of shutting down or walking on eggshells at home.
- You’re strong in crisis, but unsure how to handle emotions behind closed doors.
- You want closeness, but can’t seem to stop the arguments—or the silence.
- You’ve tried staying calm, staying busy, staying quiet. Still, nothing feels better.
- You’ve inherited emotional wounds you never asked for—and now they’re showing up in your own parenting, your marriage, your family.
Sound familiar? You’re not broken—and you don’t have to do this alone. At Creating Healthy Connections, I offer a grounded, compassionate space to slow down, speak honestly, and finally feel seen.
📍 Licensed in Maryland, Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia
“Carol is a caring and thoughtful therapist who got me and my wife through some difficult times and has made our marriage much more resilient. She helped us have some difficult discussions that we likely wouldn’t have had left to our own devices. We recommend Carol wholeheartedly!”
Relational Healing for People in Hard Places
Emotional shutdown, burnout, and disconnection are real consequences of always being the one who “keeps it together.” I help first responders, ER doctors, service professionals, and their loved ones reconnect through emotion-focused therapy that honors what you’ve lived through—and creates space to feel again.
When trust is broken, emotions are misread, or communication spirals into conflict or distance, EFT helps partners rediscover each other—not just through words, but through deeper understanding and connection. Whether you’re recovering from betrayal or struggling to connect, I help you build a foundation of emotional safety and trust.
Families carry stories, pain, and patterns across generations. I help families navigate estrangement, emotional neglect, sibling rivalry, and cycles of criticism or silence. With empathy and structure, I create a space where meaningful change can take root—and blossom into more connected, resilient relationships.
“We had a great experience with Carol. My husband and I had the same frustrating arguments every year with no way to resolve, and it really drove a wedge between us. Carol helped us break that toxic cycle and we’ve grown so much closer than we’ve ever been. The extra resources she recommends are also very helpful.”
Healing & Overcoming
There’s More to You Than the Pain You’ve Been Carrying.
Facing the emotional wounds of your past—whether from trauma, betrayal, addiction, or silence—can feel overwhelming, especially if you’ve always been the one who “held it together.” But healing is possible, and it doesn’t mean doing it alone because doing it alone is lonely.
At Creating Healthy Connections, I believe in your capacity to heal—not just cope. I work from an attachment-based, trauma-informed lens to address the root of the pain, not just the surface symptoms. Together, we’ll explore what’s underneath the behaviors, the shutdown, the arguments, and the exhaustion.
I support clients working through:
- Betrayal trauma & infidelity
- PTSD and trauma responses
- Emotional neglect
- Compulsive emotional shutdown
- Parent-child estrangement
- Generational trauma
- Men’s emotional health & vulnerability challenges
Whether you’re overcoming trust issues, relationship wounds, or the effects of high-stress living, you don’t have to keep repeating the same patterns. Therapy can be your turning point.
📍 Licensed in Maryland, Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia
Relationship Counseling for Families, Couples, and High-Stress Professionals
MEET THE THERAPIST
I founded Creating Healthy Connections after spending years in both military service and family life—two worlds where silence, sacrifice, and strength are expected, but emotional expression is rarely taught. As a former active-duty service member and the wife of a retired U.S.M.C. Lieutenant Colonel, I know the quiet cost of “holding it all together.”
My husband and I have been married for over 40 years, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has been foundational in helping us stay connected—especially during the hard seasons. Now, I help individuals, couples, and families do the same: create lasting emotional bonds, repair trust, and move through the hard conversations with grace and honesty. I want to give others the gift of love I have with those that matter most.
I’m licensed in Maryland, Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia, and I offer therapy that is grounded, compassionate, and always tailored to the emotional reality you’re living in—not a one-size-fits-all script.
📍 Licensed in Maryland, Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, and Virginia
“I feel most people want a couples therapist that will be a third party who will tell one partner they’re right and the other one they’re wrong. At least that’s what I was hoping for when starting couples counseling. Carol did not do this. Instead of worrying about who was right or wrong she helped us stop and actually listen to what each other was trying to say. And VALUE it. With being parents and full time working adults, I would have never thought we could have found time to attend counseling. And if we hadn’t, our marriage would have likely failed. Being able to do online sessions in the privacy of our home allowed the flexibility to really make therapy work on our time. Carol has been amazing for our marriage and we are so grateful to have found her.”