About
Dr. Conrad is a highly skilled EFT therapist dedicated to growth, transformation, and healing for her clients. As an expert in the field with 20 years of experience, she offers exceptional service to couples, families, and individuals utilizing effective, evidence-based treatment.
Serving clients in Washington, Idaho, Illinois, and Iowa
Philosophy
Shift Your View of the World and Yourself
Dr. Conrad holds positive regard for all human beings, regardless of race, sex, religious preference, socio-economic status, sexual orientation or gender identity. She assumes the position that in the core of all human beings there is an innate desire to grow when safety is provided. Safety (physical, emotional, mental) is the North Star by which she navigates all interactions with her clients.
Mission
Dr. Conrad is devoted and committed to both personal and professional growth—living and acting upon the principles of attachment and the humanistic perspective. Here's she does it:
- A Commitment to Ethics Dr. Conrad is committed to adherence to the ethical foundation of her profession with regard to the sacred trust of her clients. If she in any way fails in her duty to fulfill her goal for excellent service to her clients, she take responsibility for her part, offers an equitable solution, and seeks to repair the relationship.
- Collaboration & Communication Working in collaboration with her clients, Dr. Conrad creates a safe space for learning and growth by resolving conflicts and maintaining open communication. When needed, she collaborates with clients' individual or couples' therapists to form a treatment team that can best support the individual client's needs. She gives direct feedback and maintains personal responsibility and accountability. She operates on the principles of kindness and forgiveness, including with ourselves and our own humanness.
- Positivity & Affirmations Dr. Conrad maintains a positive environment by speaking to others, not about others. She gives praise and/or support for effort and growth, asserts needs and is gracious. She works with her clients and others as a team to achieve her mission and goal to transform the lives of her clients for the better.
- Constant Learning Dr. Conrad undergoes continual training and is perpetually learning. She is a lifetime learner and continues to offer supervision, professional trainings, and client workshops and educational courses.
- ICEEFT Certification Dr. Conrad is a certified therapist and supervisor with the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). This is a rigorous certification process which requires many hours of training, observation, and supervision. She earned her certification in 2008 and has been provided supervision and instruction for therapists seeking ICEEFT certification since 2014.
- Excellence in Care & Compassion Dr. Conrad provides excellent service to her clients from first contact on the phone or email to the very last contact. She seeks to meet each client's needs in a positive, fair, and compassionate way.
Why Dr. Carol created Healing Together
The gap she kept seeing in couples work
In nearly 30 years of helping individuals and couples, Dr. Carol kept running into the same thing. Couples could calm their conflicts and understand their patterns, and still stay stuck. Often the deeper issue was relational trauma or unresolved emotional wounds in one or both partners' histories, and couples work rarely has the time or space to address those while also working on the relationship itself.
When that deeper work happens somewhere else, a couple ends up carrying two separate processes at once: two schedules, two sets of language, and no thread running between them. She wanted one approach that could hold both.
So she and Alissa Wakefield created Healing Together and its method, Integrative Relational Transformation (IRT). They call it Between and Within.
Between · Dr. Carol
The relationship itself: the cycle two people get stuck in, and how to build real emotional security between them.
Within · Alissa Wakefield
What each partner brings in: subconscious emotional blocks and protective patterns formed early in life, often what sets the cycle off faster than conscious thought.
Her core belief: secure connection is a birthright. The goal of Healing Together is connection and healing for both the individuals and the relationship, together, from the inside out.
Healing Together is education and coaching, available wherever you live. It is not psychotherapy and not a substitute for therapy.
From Dr. Carol's Coaching Program, Hold Me Tight® workshops and practice. “HMT” refers to the Hold Me Tight® workshop.
"HMT gave us a second chance, created the space each of us needed to work with each other again, and gave me the breathing room that I needed personally."
"Going through the HMT "process" has helped my husband and I communicate more effectively. Knowing what the demon dialogue does to us & how to stop our dance has been pivotal to us really letting each other in"
“Dr. Conrad is very professional and compassionate. We worked together as a team and she helped me heal in ways I never thought possible. As a result of therapy I am able to enjoy life to its fullest. I highly recommend Dr. Conrad.”
"We simply can’t recommend working with Dr. Carol enough! Our marriage had been struggling for a long time, and we went into counseling skeptical (but hopeful) that things could be different. After the Hold Me Tight workshop and hard work together with Carol, we are happier in our relationship, closer than we thought possible, and even better parents. We are eternally grateful to Dr. Carol and EFT; we know the tools we learned have saved our marriage!"
"Dr. Conrad was engaging and encouraging to us. she helped make the workshop a little easier to participate in. The topics at time were emotionally charging, but she was supportive."
"I think EVERY couple should do this!"
"If you are open, I guarantee you will learn how to create love and trust in this workshop!"
The HMT was a great place to open up and really explore our relationship & feelings in a safe & encouraging environment."
"Well worth the time!"
"HMT helped us find the core of our relationship difficulty."