CARRIE ALLYSON DYER
/ / / / Therapist in training /
CARRIE ALLYSON DYER
/ / / / Therapist in training /
A Place to Land / Cloudwhale Collective is a place where therapy, creativity, and human experience intersect. It reflects my belief that healing rarely follows a straight path; it unfolds through stories, relationships, and the layered systems through which we come to understand ourselves.
I am currently completing a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Wake Forest University while training as an outpatient therapist. My work is grounded in trauma-informed and neurodivergence-affirming care, drawing from integrative approaches such as EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and experiential therapies.
Before entering the counseling profession, I spent more than two decades working in visual communication and creative education. That background continues to inform my clinical work, particularly in the development of visual therapeutic tools that help translate complex psychological experiences into accessible forms.
This site and portfolio documents the early stages of that journey, bringing together research, therapeutic frameworks, and creative systems designed to support understanding, reflection, and growth.
The Process / You have done the masking. You have tried to quiet the parts of you that feel too much, too scattered, too tender, too tired. Maybe you're a parent trying to break the cycle, or a deeply feeling individual navigating the wreckage of childhood with no roadmap. Maybe you're exhausted by the noise in your mind, the spirals of shame, the sensitivity that everyone says is “too dramatic,” and the rejection that burns longer than it should. Here, you do not have to explain why it hurts.
I am Carrie Allyson Dyer, a therapist-in-training who specializes in working with neurodivergent adults, trauma survivors, creatives, and those who grew up in emotionally immature homes. I work with people who feel like they are “too much” and “not enough” all at once. People who are smart, sensitive, often spiritual, and deeply alone.
My approach is integrative, soul-tending, and evidence-informed. I draw from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and depth-oriented practices like Jungian psychology and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT).
We won't rush your healing. We'll hold space for it, walk slowly through the garden of your soul, listen for what has been exiled, and gently reconnect the missing threads.
I became a therapist because I know how it feels to long for a safe place to land and not find it for a very long time.
Before I became a therapist-in-training, I was an artist and educator, someone deeply interested in the moment a person begins to reconnect with their own voice, their own story, their own way of making meaning. I now bring that same lens into therapy: one that honors both the sacred mess and the quiet beauty of untangling.
I work with individuals navigating trauma, loneliness, rejection sensitivity, neurodivergence, spiritual longing, grief, and the haunting legacies of what was never fully named. My clients are often people who have carried too much for too long: sensitive, thoughtful, creative, and often profoundly misunderstood.
My style is relational, intuitive, and parts-aware. I believe healing happens when we slow down enough to listen deeply, not just to symptoms, but to the stories and survival strategies beneath them.
I’m currently completing my clinical training as an outpatient intern therapist, with a focus on trauma, ADHD, grief, identity, and integrative care. I bring over 19 years of experience in creative higher education, along with advanced interest in EMDR, parts work, expressive approaches, mindfulness, and somatic modalities.
You do not have to fix yourself to be worthy of healing.
Therapy that meets you where you are, and honors where you've been.
I offer individual therapy for adults navigating trauma, neurodivergence, creative overwhelm, spiritual longing, and the quiet ache of feeling too much in a world that often feels too loud.
Together, we create a space where your inner experience is not pathologized, but listened to, where your sensitivity is not a flaw, but a form of knowing.
/ Individual Therapy Sessions
$30 [at Irenic Therapy - Intern]
/ Creative Arts &
Neurodivergent Coaching
$55 per session
/ Consultation
[curriculum & neurodivergence]
$90 per session
/ Group Expressive Arts Sessions
$250 per group session
/ Parts Work Illustrations
$80 per illustration
/ Therapeutic Illustrations
$80 per illustration
/ Genogram Diagram
$250 per
I collaborate with therapists to design visual tools and therapeutic materials that help clients and clinicians see complex emotional and psychological concepts more clearly. Thoughtful visual design can transform abstract ideas into something tangible, something a person can point to, hold, and return to when words alone feel overwhelming.
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