Emotionally Focused Therapy

“My passion at Creating Healthy Connections is to help couples and families connect in deep and meaningful ways, and I love it.”

Meet Carol, Founder of Creating Healthy Connections

Carol Corcoran is a dedicated Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with over 30 years of experience. She is a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, specializing in helping couples, families, and individuals navigate emotional disconnection and trauma. Her passion lies in using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to create secure emotional bonds between partners, ensuring they feel safe and understood. Carol is a certified EFCT Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, Certified EFIT Emotionally Focused Individual Therapist, and Certified EFFT Emotionally Focused Family Therapist.

Driven by her commitment to fostering deeper connections, Carol works with couples who are often at a crossroads in their relationship. She helps clients understand and break negative cycles while fostering closeness and trust. Carol’s therapy style is rooted in compassion and a trauma-informed perspective, ensuring a safe space for vulnerability. Her aim is to help clients overcome relational struggles, promoting lasting, meaningful change by guiding them toward emotional security and attachment.

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“Carol is an amazingly talented therapist – warm, caring, insightful, unbiased and tremendously supportive. She helped more than we ever thought possible, and we’d highly recommend her services!” - A.A.

Carol’s Philosophy

Carol believes in the power of secure, emotional bonds in healing both individuals and relationships. At Creating Healthy Connections, she uses an attachment-based framework to understand relational dynamics, helping clients reconnect emotionally and break unhealthy patterns. Through a trauma-informed lens, Carol aims to create safe, supportive spaces for her clients to explore their vulnerabilities and develop deeper trust and intimacy with their partners.

Driven by her commitment to fostering deeper connections, Carol works with couples who are often at a crossroads in their relationship. She helps clients understand and break negative cycles while fostering closeness and trust. Carol’s therapy style is rooted in compassion and a trauma-informed perspective, ensuring a safe space for vulnerability. Her aim is to help clients overcome relational struggles, promoting lasting, meaningful change by guiding them toward emotional security and attachment.

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Creating Healthy Connections

How EFT Has Helped My Marriage.

My husband, a retired U.S.M.C. Lieutenant Colonel, and I, happily married for over 40 years, have found great value in using EFT to strengthen our relationship, particularly during tough times. This journey has brought us to a deeper state of love and connection, continually growing together. While our marriage isn’t perfect, we consistently reconnect using the skills gained from the EFT process. We enjoy shared activities such as hiking, biking, traveling, attending concerts, and embracing life’s experiences together.

Licenses, Certifications, Affiliations, & Education

  • Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist
    • Arizona: LMFT-15453
    • California: LMFT38043
    • Maryland: LCM146
    • Colorado: MFT0001806
    • Nevada: 4013-R
    • Virgina: 0717002204
  • American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Clinical Fellow
  • California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Clinical Member
  • ICEEFT Lifetime Member
  • Certified EFT Therapist (Emotionally Focused Therapy)
  • Prior EMDRIA Certified Therapist.
  • Graduate Degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on Marriage, Family, and Child Therapy from Chapman University, California, with Honors in 1996
  • Completed Post-Graduate work at the University of Maryland in Couples and Family Counseling
  • Bachelors in Psychology, California State University San Marcos, California (Magna Cum-Laude) 1994
  • Member of the Psi Chi National Honor Society since 1994
  • Continuing Education focused on trauma and attachment within the framework of EFT, EFFT, EFIT

Carol is licensed in Maryland, California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado. Here at Creating Healthy Connections, the foremost goal is to help couples struggling for close connection find their way back toward each other’s hearts and build a stronger and more connected relationship.