Carol H. Corcoran, LCMFT

Creating Healthy Connections
Severna Park, MD 21146

Phone: (443) 254-0686
Email:
Website: www.CreatingHealthyConnections.com
  
 
Practice Description

Maryland and California licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist, knowledgeable in assisting couples, families, and children, as well as individuals in the areas of attachment and trauma.

Expertise includes providing skills focused on improving the quality of relationships by creating a deeper more lasting connection for couples and family members struggling with relationship challenges. This involves helping the couple/family members understand their negative interaction cycle and how it highjacks their relationship. Couples is helped to understand their attachment style and how that style can be helpled to create a deeper more lasting bond with one another.

Theraputic treatment is also focused on helping couples and members of a family better understand their communication styles, create consistent boundaries, increase effective parenting skills, process grief, all within a neutral, supportive and safe atmosphere.

Other areas of knowledge involve assisting couples and individuals work through life challenges and difficulties by exploring suitable options in order to reach a higher level of functioning and growth. This includes focusing on new ideas and healthy alternatives based on their particular situation. Couples and family members are able to feel safe and supported which allowes for the opportunity to work through the difficulties and challenges that life presents. Additional areas of expertise include treating PTSD due to trauma, infidelity/affairs, anger issues, self-esteem challenges, anxiety, grief, depression, life transitions including separation/divorce, blended families, adjustment disorders (moving, new school), loss of family member/s as well as other developmental transitions and family changes.

Therapeutic approaches include:

EFT - Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples and family dyads who search and achieve a more deeply connected way to attach and feel safe with significant others. See www.ocfi.ca

EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing for trauma, anxiety, depression, substance issues, self-esteem challenges. I also provide affect/emotional regulation skills found to be helpful for substance abuse and attachment issues. Carol is one of the few EMDR Certified EMDRIA therapists in Anna Arundel County. To learn more about EMDR please go to EMDRIA.org and EMDR.com for a list of certified EMDR therapists in your area.

CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for decreasing symptoms of depression, anxiety, panic, and improving self-esteem in which one is able to see connections between their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, bodily sensations and relationships and move on to make more effective choices based on a new more healthy way of looking at self, others and relationships.

  
   
 
Office Information
Office hours of Creating Healthy Connections: Monday through Friday 1pm - 9pm. Ritchie Hwy. Severna Park, MD 21146.(443)254-0686. Please feel free to leave a confidential voice mail which is checked and responded to daily. If you chose to send an e-mail, please provide a phone number as the internet is not confidential. Thank you.
  
  Gender: Female

  
 
Education
B.A., Magna Cum Laude, California State University, San Marcos, Psychology, 1994
M.A., Magna Cum Laude, Chapman University, Psychology, Marriage, Family, Child Therapy, 1996
  
 
License/Certification in Marriage and Family Therapy *
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California - License # MFC 38043
Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist, Maryland - License # LCM 146
  
 
Other Licenses/Certifications *
EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist 2007
  
 
Voluntary Certifications/Awards/Memberships/Publications
EMDR and EMDRIA Clinical Member 2007, EFT Clinical Member 2004 AAMFT: Clinical Member 2001
CAMFT: Clinical Member 1985
Psi Chi Member: National Honor Society in Psychology 1994
  
 
Languages spoken other than English
  
 
Health Plan Participation
Varied
  

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