About Carol Hollandsworth

What Carol is Doing Now​

 

Carol is clinical director at Bareiter Counseling Center in Charlotte, NC. She counsels clients and supervises the new (provisionally licensed) counselors at the practice, among other clinical directing duties. Her focus in recent years has been the creation and delivery of clinical workshops to counselors, social workers and psychologists for continuing education. She has written and presented at the North Carolina Counseling Association Conference, was program assistant for Internal Family Systems (IFS) training, spoken at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and presented at workshops and church groups. She has written blogs, devotions, supervision training and clinical workshops. She is currently writing a book with a focus on implementation of IFS with another book developing as well.  Read on to learn how she got here.​

 

A Resume in Paragraph Form – the Journey 

 

It was in high school that Carol’s desire to help people arose. Sitting in an art class, she made that internal declaration. She, however, was in a bit of trouble herself. She did not connect the two at that time. Due to the discouragement from her family away from a counseling degree, she entered a Christian college studying business. She then took a brief break to work in the field of substance abuse treatment. Back then, a degree was not required to become a counselor! Returning to college, she got a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on Management Information Systems. This was back when most people did not know what that was or what a computer programmer did. For 18 years, Carol worked as systems engineer, software developer and then project manager in the fields of aerospace/defense contracting and software for the healthcare industry. She found the opportunity for creativity and exploring the ever-changing field of technology interesting. When serving at her church in the care ministry, the desire to help and point people to hope arose again. After a season of prayer, she entered Gordon-Conwell Seminary for a Master of Arts in Christian Counseling. Carol served as an intern at Bareiter Counseling Center in 2003. She never left. Carol is clinical director and clinical supervisor at Bareiter Counseling Center. Shortly after beginning this career, she engaged in advanced training in IFS. At that time, not many people knew what this was. Having a hunger to learn and being somewhat of a training junkie, she continued on in the levels of training to become a Level III Certified IFS Therapist and Consultant. This model of therapy is powerfully transformative. She began to offer supervision groups for clinicians to learn and grow in IFS skills. Carol then got the idea to teach continuing education workshops through the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC). The process to become a certified continuing education provider is not for the faint of heart. Nervous as she was at first, she found that creating the workshops and teaching from her years of advanced training and experience to be meaningful and fulfilling. She has a passion to teach and foster growth for new and emerging therapists. What Carol loves is how she continues to learn and grow every day from teaching and counseling. It is a parallel process of growth with the clients and workshop participants. It is a gift.

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 What Matters to Carol and Why She is Writing 

 

As a Christian, through the years of implementing IFS, Carol has pondered how IFS fits within a biblical worldview. Lately, this has been a focus of her reading, writing and workshop creation. It is the story being written in her heart over the decades of counseling and implementing IFS therapy among other modalities. Carol desires to fold her experience personally and professionally into God’s story of mankind. It is from this place that she is crafting her books with the desire to point those who are hurting and those who help the hurting to the hope and peace found in Christ.​​

 

"Not all who wander are lost"  JRR Tolkien