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minnesota relationship counseling from evolve therapy

CAROLYN OUELLETTE

MA, LPCC

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor

We’re not meant to do life alone. I help individuals, couples, and families heal from trauma, strengthen relationships, and prevent burnout. My therapy approach blends awareness, compassionate insight, and practical tools to create lasting change in your body, mind, and relationships.


I support clients through life’s hardest seasons, helping you understand your story, regulate your nervous system, and build secure, meaningful connections. My clinical focus includes developmental and complex trauma, healing after betrayal, couple and family therapy, military families (including work with the Wounded Warrior Project), and supporting high-responsibility professionals.


Whether you’re working to move beyond old patterns, repair relationships, or find balance, therapy with me focuses on strengthening emotional regulation, reclaiming agency, and nurturing connection in every area of life.


I integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) to help clients heal from trauma and build healthy relationships.


  • EFT therapy is based on the science of attachment, it helps individuals and couples create emotional safety and stronger bonds.

  • NARM therapy focuses on reconnecting with your natural capacity for calm and resilience, even if early life experiences disrupted it.


Together, these methods help you restore inner steadiness and develop trust, both in yourself and in safe relationships with others.


I grew up in Canada and moved to the United States at 17. I’ve been married for 21 years and am a mom to two young adults and one teen. Outside the therapy room, I enjoy swimming, hiking, and outdoor climbing with my family. These parts of my life remind me that healing is relational, embodied, and possible.


I’m warm, attentive, and gently challenging, helping clients feel understood while making lasting shifts in their bodies and relationships. Sessions are collaborative, emotionally safe, and focused on practical, present-moment change.

TRAINING

  • I continue to maintain the highest level of training in EFT because it is research based and it works.

  • EFIT Webinar by Dr. Sue Johnson - Dr. Sue Johnson is an author, clinical psychologist, researcher, professor, popular presenter and speaker and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and adult attachment. Sue is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research.

  • Master Class: Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy. Extending an attachment-based model to therapy with individuals. Lorrie Brubacher, M.ed. is the Founding Director of the Carolina Center for EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy). A certified trainer with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT (ICEEFT), she has been an individual, couple and family therapist since 1989.

  • Master class: 3 day EFT core concepts and conceptualizations, and training in working with complex blocks. George Faller, LMFT is an EFT trainer in New York and Connecticut, and is the author of various books including Sacred Stress.

  • Master Class: 3 day EFT Micro moves training with George Faller.

  • EFFT 3 day core class: Emotion Focused Family Therapy is rooted in a deep and unwavering belief in the healing power of families. The essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a significant role in their loved one’s mental health and well-being. Adele Lafrance, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist, research scientist and published author.

  • Working with and Experiencing Shame, An Experiential Workshop, Cindy Wander and Jim Thomas is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, EFT Therapist, and an AAMFT, Clinical Fellow as well as an ICEEFT EFT Supervisor and ICEEFT Certified International Trainer.

  • Core Skills with Dr. Kurt Wical, Ph.D., LMFT, Certified EFT Therapist, supervisor, and trainer and Jeff Hickey who is a certified EFT practitioner, supervisor and trainer.

  • Externship with Jeff Hickey Jeff Hickey who is certified as an EFT practitioner, supervisor and trainer by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy. He provides trainings and introductory talks in the Chicago area and around the country.


PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

  • MNCEFT

  • ICEEFT

CAROLYN OUELLETTE

carolyn@evolvetherapymn.com

CLINICAL INTERESTS

Adoption
Anger Management
Anxiety
Betrayals
Bipolar Disorder
Borderline Personality
Career Counseling
Complex Trauma
Adolescents
Affairs
Codependency
Co-parenting
Coping Skills
Discernment Counseling
Depression
Divorce
Family Conflict
Grief
Infidelity
Life Coaching
Life Transitions
Marital and Premarital
Parenting
Peer Relationships
Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
Relationship Issues
School Issues
Self-Harming
Self Esteem
Spirituality
Sports Performance
Stress
Substance Use
Suicidal Ideation
Support for caregivers
Trauma and PTSD
Video Game Addiction
Women's Issues
Mental Health
Dissociative Disorders
Personality Disorder

EDUCATION:

Bethel University, MA in Counseling Psychology
University of Northwestern, BS emphasis on health

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