/ CARRIE ALLYSON DYER / THERAPIST-IN-TRAINING / VISUAL TOOLS FOR THERAPISTS / TRAUMA-INFORMED + NEURODIVERGENT-AFFIRMING DESIGN /
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Cloudwhale Collective  / / / / ______________ /

Each of us is a constellation of encounters,
memories, and histories, threads from our own lives
woven together with the wider human story.




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/ Origin Story /

Cloudwhale Collective began with a simple idea: none of us creates alone. Each of us is shaped by the people we meet, the stories we inherit, and the experiences that ripple through our lives. Our creativity is not isolated—it is part of a larger ecosystem of influence, imagination, and shared human history.

The name Cloudwhale reflects this sense of movement and connection. Like clouds that gather and disperse across the sky, ideas travel between people, evolving as they go. The “collective” honors the truth that every creative act is part of something larger than ourselves.

Ideas move between us like weather systems, gathering, shifting, and transforming as they pass through different minds. The name Cloudwhale reflects this sense of scale and motion: vast, drifting forms of thought and imagination traveling through a shared sky. The “collective” honors the truth that every work we create carries traces of others—teachers, collaborators, cultures, histories—an invisible constellation behind every act of making.

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INBETWEEN WORLDS



About Carrie

I became a therapist because I know how it feels to long for a safe place to land, and to not find it for a long time.

Before I became a therapist-in-training, I was an artist and educator, someone who loved witnessing the moment people connect with their own voice, their own story. I’ve spent years walking with people through transformation, not from a pedestal but beside them. Now I bring that same lens to 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, and haunting legacies. My clients are often the ones who carry too much: deeply feeling, fiercely thoughtful, often misunderstood souls who have never felt fully seen.

My style is relational, intuitive, and parts-aware. I believe healing happens when we slow down and listen deeply, not just to symptoms, but to the stories underneath them. Together, we create space for the full ecosystem of your inner world to emerge: the protectors, the pain, the power you forgot you had.

Credentials + Background

I work from an integrative, trauma-informed foundation, drawing from:
__. IFS (Internal Family Systems): to unblend and befriend your inner parts
__. EMDR: to process and release trauma that keeps looping
__. ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy): to move with your values, not your fear
__. EFIT (Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy): to reshape emotional bonds and find safety in connection
__. Jungian Psychology: to explore archetypes, dreams, and the symbolic roots of your story

I'm currently completing my clinical training as an Outpatient Intern Therapist, with a focus on trauma, ADHD, and integrative care. I hold over 19 years of experience in creative higher education. I am trained  in EMDR and IFS integration including, parts work, legacy burdens,  mindfulness, play therapy, and somatic modalities.

You don't have to fix yourself to be worthy of healing.

My role isn't to pathologize or to push, but to walk with you, at your pace, as you begin to remember what's been exiled and reclaim what's always been yours.

[ Let's work together ]

Inner + Outer

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