Prior to developing this specialty, Carrie provided support to foster care and adoptive families in Massachusetts, where her interest in working with repairing disrupted attachment began. After earning a master’s degree in counseling from Boston University, Carrie completed a post-graduate clinical fellowship at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, with emphasis on relational-developmental treatment approaches, and went on to complete her certification in RDI® (Relationship Development Intervention) through Drs. Steven Gutstein and Rachelle Sheely’s Connections Center in Houston, Texas.