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Meet Caroline

I’m Caroline (she/her), a licensed independent social worker with supervisory status (LISW-S) based in Ohio.

My eclectic background is invaluable to how I approach my therapeutic process. As a dancer, I've learned to connect with my body, attune with others, and express my inner world. With a bachelor's degree focused on Tibetan Buddhism, I embody compassion and mindfulness. In my career as a performer and puppeteer, I've fostered play, freedom, and persistence.

In my Buddhist practice, I have vowed to dedicate my life to help alleviate the suffering of others. I’ve studied Buddhism in India and am a practitioner of Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

My lived experience in chronic illness, neurodivergence, and member of the LGBTQ+ community shape how I approach therapy. I live in Columbus with my cats and plants, and I’m an avid reader, crafter, and film buff.

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Education

  • Case Western Reserve University, Master of Science in Social Administration

  • Agnes Scott College, Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Dance

  • University of Hyderabad, India, Buddhism and Dance

Theoretical Orientation

  • Gestalt, humanistic, existential, trauma-informed, liberation psychology

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Schema Therapy

Land acknowledgement

Blue Lion Counseling holds therapy sessions in the Columbus area, which is occupying the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Kaskaskia, Osage, Shawnee, Miami, and the people called the Hopewell. Columbus resides on land taken in the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville and forced removal of tribes through the Indian Removal Act of 1830. I acknowledge that my clients reside in all parts of Ohio, the lands of many Indigenous nations and cultures. These include, and are not limited to, the Erie, Mississauga, Wyandot, Haudenosaunee, Shawandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee), Adena, Ofo, Myaamia, Peoria, Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), and Monongahela Peoples. Despite the forced relocation of these people that led them to various parts of North America, they are still here and thriving.

I stand with the Indigenous Peoples in Ohio and honor those who originally stewarded these lands and waters. I acknowledge the history of trauma that lives in this soil and in Indigenous Peoples. At the hands of white colonizers, these Peoples suffered from a myriad of injustices: genocide, colonization, forced relocation, and dispossession of lands and resources through military tactics, settler aggressions, treaties, and religious oppressions. As a social worker, it is imperative that I work towards social, economic, racial, and environmental justice by first recognizing what is and what has been here in this space and in our lives: settler colonialism, white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity, ableism, and all the other intersecting systems of oppression. Social workers have a role to play to make amends for our past and current actions as a profession that have contributed to the oppression and the attempt of genocide of Indigenous Peoples.