Hi. I’m Dene Carroll.

For over 10 years, I worked as a Child Welfare Services Social Worker for the County of Sonoma. I loved this job. I loved my clients. I loved my coworkers. And, I was very good at it. But the workload, responsibility, and bureaucracy were crushing me. Then, my son was born with extra needs and I realized the need for a more sustainable career to support my professional ambitions and my life outside the office.

So, I began building my private practice working as a court involved therapist (under the wonderful mentoring and guidance of Dana Schneider). I felt empowered to help families the way I knew they needed to be helped. I was saving my clients tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees because I knew how to get them to make agreements in my office vs. the courtroom. I was working with amazing multidisciplinary teams that included other therapists, attorneys, and decision-makers.