Carol Alexander MA Counselling Psychology, RCC RP, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors Registration # 11461 and a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario # 12720. She holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University, New Brunswick. She utilizes therapeutic modalities such as child and parent play therapy, emotion focused family therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), cognitive behavioural therapy, and understanding the neurobiological basis for behaviour in children. Carol also has specialized training in attachment focused EMDR, a form of psychotherapy for children who have experienced severe developmental trauma that often remains unresolved.
As a therapist and consultant, Carol offers tools and strategies for assisting parents in developing relationships where children can thrive and learn. Her belief in the power of empathy, and positive parenting has inspired families searching for alternatives to traditional discipline strategies that just don’t work. Carol is also an experienced presenter on issues such as family dynamics and communication, parenting, trauma and mindfulness based stress reduction for parents and children.
Through a trauma informed lens she has supported children in their healing from emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.

Carol has worked extensively in the field of adoption helping parents learn a form of therapeutic play that promotes attachment. She was instrumental in developing the Parent Adoption Support Program (PASS) for the Adoptive Families Association of British Columbia in 2010. It was through the experience of helping parents create attachment with children who had suffered developmental trauma that she realized the healing power of the parent child relationship.