Build your bridge to authenticity, freedom and wholeness.

Life-changing individual and small group facilitation, offering experiential learning to promote your health and well-being

You will experience:
  • Safety and compassion for deep change
  • Support to heal relationships with yourself and others
  • Hope for the future
  • Courage for challenging times
You can:
  • Strengthen your Relationship with your Inner Self
    • Learn about your internal resources
    • Make decisions you can trust
    • Update your belief systems
    • Be here now
  • Navigate Transitions
    • Consciously mark endings and beginnings
    • Find your way through the "in between" times
    • Follow your path
    • Hold hope for your future
  • Improve your Mental Health
    • Increase your awareness; experience stillness
    • Find your clarity
    • Gain insight into your unconscious patterns
    • Discover your choices
  • Enrich Relationships with Others
    • Explore patterns of disconnection and reconnection
    • Develop trust
    • Set and maintain healthy boundaries
    • Engage your curiosity
  • Develop a Healthy Relationship with your Body
    • Learn your body’s language
    • Give your body what it needs; practice balanced self care
    • Find your center and stay connected
    • Own your wisdom and intuition

“Carol's insightful understanding and unconditional acceptance of others creates a haven of safety which gently encourages women to examine themselves and move through roadblocks that may be preventing them from reaching their full potential.”

About Carol

Approach

Carol utilizes a holistic, heart-centered approach to wellness. She is committed to mutual safety and respect as she invites you on a collaborative journey to a destination of your choosing. Carol is clear, direct and appropriately playful as you find your way into your inner landscape. She deeply attends to the nuances of your unique self while openheartedly holding space for what you wish to bring. Actively engaging with all facets of who you are, she welcomes all of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. She supports you in being in touch with the vast vessel of knowing that is your body. Tuning into your wisdom, she follows your lead. Together you explore and transform your deepest desires, challenges, shadows and gifts, creating new pathways for a happier, healthier life.

Weaving several healing modalities, Carol supports your process with:

These methods share guiding principles of:

Experience and Training

Carol brings you almost three decades of experience of her personal journey, experiential process work and training. She is committed to her personal development and ongoing growth.

Testimonials

“Helping others see their own reflections and empowering them to make courageous choices towards growth.”

Jennifer S., Mother, Farmer Entrepreneur

“Carol is committed to doing her own deep work, which makes it safer for me to do mine. She respects and stays present with my “stealthy strategies” to avoid vulnerability while I gain insight into my unconscious defenses. I appreciate her direct and honest approach.”

Deb Hoffmann, Zen Priest, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Instructor

“Carol has a rare gift for process facilitation and deep intrapersonal work, the end result of many years of training and her dedication to her own personal growth process. It has been an honor to work with her, learn from her, and to witness the depth and power of her transformational interactions with our mutual clients.”

John O'Donnell, PhD (Milwaukee), Clinical and Consulting Psychologist

“Carol's breadth of self-exploration and loving integrity allows one to try new experiences with openness, acceptance, and creativity.”

Monica Robinson, MSW, LCSW

“I am making peace with my past and am gaining clarity, choice, compassion and direction. I feel joy that I did not feel before.”

Confidential

“Carol explores and celebrates joy while honoring the dark and painful.”

Maria Scott

“With compassion and keen insight, flexibility and strength, Carol creates safety and provides guidance that invites and encourages one's inner knowing to come forward. The breadth of her knowledge, the depth of her experience, and the warmth of her heart make her a wise and trusted guide.”

Johana Wells Lombardi

“Carol enabled me to commune with a part of myself that had been hidden. It showed itself to me for the first time, a deeply profound experience.”

Phryne Williams, Coach, Trainer, Executive Search Specialist

“Carol is committed to doing her own deep work, which makes it safer for me to do mine. She respects and stays present with my “stealthy strategies” to avoid vulnerability while I gain insight into my unconscious defenses. I appreciate her direct and honest approach.”

Individual Sessions

Individual sessions are one-hour duration and take place in an informal and cozy space in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin or via varied video platforms such as: FaceTime, Skype, Doxy.me, or WhatsApp for those who live at a distance.

Each meeting is unique and evolves based on your specific learning needs and goals.

Contact Carol at 414-839-2665 or [email protected] to schedule your appointment!

Groups

We grow when actively participating in our own work as well as observing another in the group. Neuroscience reports mirror neurons in our brain fire in response to what we are seeing/experiencing with others. We resonate with the other and when the neurons fire in this alignment new pathways are wired together. Neurons that are wired together also fire together. With repetition, this gives us the ability to change our old patterns into something new: thoughts, beliefs, and behavior. We have choice.

While it may seem intimidating for some to share in a group experience, Carol is a seasoned group facilitator and has great sensitivity to safety, group dynamics, and personal choice.

Comments from previous group members:

~ "I'm not alone in my feelings, I've learned to trust again."

~ "Group participation is helpful in discovering parts of me and in understanding my personal response to stressful situations. I feel more connected to others."

~ "Group members bravely challenge each other when their Parts have felt threatened and have been met with openness. It encourages me to speak openly in the group which can be translated to my other relationships."

~ "It's a place where I can be closest to my true Self. I don't have to put my defenses up, I can be me, (group is) a break from the reality of my every day life."

~ "I am better able to identify and have compassion for parts of my story that include trauma (both large and small) which leads to healing all around."

Multifaceted You Group

Meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays 6-8:30pm.

A supportive space for adults to increase personal and other awareness, explore, transform, and integrate using IFS* framework.

Through group participation, you can:

·      Identify and develop an inner relationship with aspects of yourself using mindful awareness exercises.

·      Practice speaking for your parts rather than from them.

·      Experience compassion for and from others.

·      Become aware of the positive purpose(s) of your challenging coping mechanisms.

·      Participate in role playing of parts and their movements to externalize the inner system, enhancing one’s ability to be aware of and safely and respectfully interact with parts of self.

·      Learn group dynamics, interpersonal skills and healthy intimacy.

*Internal Family Systems, IFS, is a research based, dynamic healing modality that compassionately embraces the multifaceted aspects of who we are. The IFS model shows how we relate to our internal system (parts and their interactions with each other) as well as external systems (nuclear family, extended family, work, church, society, etc.). It is gentle, effective and non-pathologizing.

Groups are on hold until further notice due to COVID-19

Insightful Women’s Group

Women have the opportunity to explore all aspects of themselves and develop new relationships within and with others.

We meet for a designated number of weeks each series and use imagery, deep introspection, journaling, art, music, and psychodramatic processes. Topics vary, are collaboratively decided and include teaching and integration work.

Workshops

Multifaceted You: Introduction to IFS (Internal Family Systems aka Parts Work)

Experience a research based, dynamic healing modality that compassionately embraces the multifaceted aspects of who we are. IFS shows how we relate to our internal system (parts and parts with each other) as well as external systems (nuclear family, extended family, work, church, society, etc.). It is gentle, effective and non-pathologizing. A powerful addition to your inner and outer journey.

Dates TBA

Multifaceted You: Introduction and Explorations in IFSSpend the day, within a group setting, exploring personal systems, externally mapping them out using IFS sculpting (body-role playing of parts and their movements, to externalize the inner system.)

Sculpting enhances one’s ability to be aware of and safely and respectfully interact with parts.

  • Learn about the IFS model, parts of your system and a path toward healing.
  • Interact with your and other's systems to develop working relationships with your parts and their thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
  • Help ease fears, concerns, and release burdens parts carry enabling a restructuring of their extreme positions and enabling a returning to their natural state of being and access to resources.
  • Reclaim your Self and live life with greater awareness and presence.

Dates TBA

Workshop History

Co-Gender Experiential GroupAka "Monday NIght Group". This group was co-facilitated with John O'Donnell, PhD for 5 years.

Used Psychodramatic, Internal Family Systems, and Family Constellation theory and experiences to help group members explore, map out, and transform: emotional blocks, psychological conflicts (Ie. Messages, scripts, oppositional views), unresolved grief issues, and trauma.

Sample of Past Topics:

  • The Journey In Search For The True Self: Adult co-gender experiential work exploring infancy though elder developmental stages.
  • I~Thou~Us: Exploring the Dance of Relationships
  • Understanding and Transforming the Power of Shame

Woman Within WeekendWeekend Leader and Facilitator, in US, Canada, UK, Switzerland, France, South Africa and Australia

Woman Within International, Inc is a 501(c)3 organization with mission to empower women. The weekend provides women with an opportunity to clearly see who they are and what they want out of life. Through a series of exercises and experiences, women gain insights and learn tools to help them arrive at the answers that are right for them.

Empowerment Circle IntensiveMentor and Facilitator, in Milwaukee, Plymouth, and Elkhorn WI

Within the context of authenticity, respect and change, this intensive training taught women:

  • Pesonal empowerment
  • Communication skills
  • How to ask for and give support in healthy ways
  • Group dynamics

Family Constellation WorkshopsFacilitator and co-creator with Tim Schladand, LCSW and Rhonda Schladand, LMT in Milwaukee, WI

This program uses Family Constellation work to provide a sacred space for participants to see things that have not yet been seen in themselves and with family (or other) systems, and release constrictions to love and belonging.

Getting Unstuck: Moving Through Emotional ImpassesPresentor and co-creator with Monica Robinson, LCSW at Womencare Counseling Center, Evanston, IL

Using an experiential format, workshop participants were introduced to the notion that there are transformative powers in life's stuck phases and were encouraged to allow a new narrative to emerge with new potential.

School Staff Development TrainingFacilitator and co-developer with Val Wright at House in the Wood Camp and Retreat Center, Delavan, WI

Team building, outdoor experiential games and group dynamics were used to bring staff together in this two day training.