Carin Grove received her Master's in Clinical Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Licensed since 2002 Carin has been in private practice in Marin County. Carin was the Clinical Director at Bay Area Community Resources and the Marin Counseling Clinic for 27 years. Carin is the CEO and Founder of Roots to Wings Counseling. 

Carin was in charge of overseeing the counseling in schools program through Bay Area Community Resources in addition to running a successful clinic and private practice. Carin specializes in counseling adolescents and families, in both individual and group settings, who are working through a wide range of issues including substance abuse and addiction, adjustment disorder, anxiety, depression, friendship issues, divorce. When seeing teenagers and young adults she believes in working collaboratively with parents, family, school counselors, pediatricians, and others to provide an optimum level of care. She has experience working within the school system. 

Carin offers an integrative approach to client-centered therapy, using humanistic and cognitive-behavioral techniques and adapts her counseling style to your specific needs as you focus on talking through or modifying what you are concerned about. Carin has counseled people from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. Her specialty is adolescents and all of the various issues that come along with being a teenager. She has helped adolescents struggling with depression; anxiety and panic attacks; substance abuse; co-dependency; childhood abuse and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She works with individuals, couples, and families.

Carin is from Marin County and is familiar with the ins and outs of the school systems and what is takes to be a parent of teens in the ever changing world of social media. Carin is a Mom of 2 young adults. In her free time, you can find Carin and her Husband at the beach or hiking with their three precious dogs. 

" A healer is not someone you go to for healing. A healer is someone that triggers within you, your own ability to heal yourself"

Some other ways in which we can be of support:

We help people with a variety of problems, including mental health conditions, behavioral issues, and stress. Mental health conditions

• Depression: Therapists can help people change habits and learn new ways of thinking and behaving. 
• Anxiety: Therapy can help reduce anxiety symptoms and improve emotional resilience. 
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): Cognitive processing therapy (CPT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) are effective treatments for PTSD. 
• Behavioral issues
  Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Therapists can help people with ADHD. 
• Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD): Therapists can help people with ODD. 
• Conduct disorder: Therapists can help people with conduct disorder. 

Stress

• Stress, worry, or low self-esteem: Therapists can help people with stress, worry, or low self-esteem. 
• Grief: Therapists can help people cope with the death of a loved one. 
• Relationship issues: Therapists can help people with relationship issues. 

In therapy, people can learn coping skills, practice new skills, and talk about their feelings.