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Carrie Crockford, MA LMFT

Carrie provides therapy through a strengths-based, trauma-focused lens, and views each person as a resilient individual system capable of developing agency of their lived story and gaining mastery of their whole self. 

She  has over 20 years of direct-client mental health care experiences working with individuals and families living with challenges complicated by serious and persistent mental illness, emotional and behavioral disorders, trauma and family violence.

She has spent the last 14 years working directly with individuals who use abuse and violence in their relationships, and with the community systems in which they are involved. She has been an integral part of the evolution, development and training  of trauma-sensitive, culturally informed, programs for men and court-involved families. 

Carrie received a Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Mary's University of Minnesota and is a Board Certified Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. She is also a Qualified Neutral for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice.

Her passion for challenging the paradigm of how healing happens and the intersectionality of domestic abuse, trauma and cultural responsiveness has been instrumental in the development of Paradigm Counseling, LLC. 

Additional Training:

  • Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)

  • Eye-Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing EMDR (Level I & II)

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

    • Mediation

    • Parenting Consulting

    • Parent Coaching

  • Trauma-track St. Mary's University

Affiliations and Certifications:

  • MN Rule 114 Qualified Neutral : 2022 - present

  • AFCC - Association of Family & Conciliation Court

    • Board of Directors Member : term 2024 - 2027

    • Training Committee Member : 2023 - present

  • Family Violence Coordinating Council; Criminal Court sub-committee member : 2017 - 2023

  • Hennepin County Fatality Review Board

    • Appointed member : term 2014 - 2020

  • AAMFT - American Association of Marriage & Family Therapy Member

  • AIAFS - American Institute for the Advancement of Forensic Studies Member

  • University of MN School of Social Work & St. Thomas University School of Law

    • Guest lecturer

  • Change Step TM (Veteran-specific Domestic Violence Program)

    • Certified Trainer and Facilitator

    • US Air Force Family Advocacy Program (FAP) presenter