Carol’s passion is to use expressive arts, mindfulness practice, storytelling, and psychotherapy to connect, empower, and bring healing to individuals, groups, and communities.

Since 2011, she has conducted expressive arts workshops, art retreats, expressive arts coaching, stress management, and wellness webinars for NGOs, schools, and corporate clients. For 2 years, she has been doing supervised psychotherapy work with We Thrive and the University of Santo Tomas Psychotrauma Clinic. She is also working as a Child Life Officer for Training at Kythe Foundation where she provides psychosocial support to children with cancer and other chronic illnesses and their families.

She is a Registered Expressive Arts Consultant and Educator granted by the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA); Certified Expressive Arts Coach granted by Certified Coaches Alliance (CCA); a Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) Facilitator granted by the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute (Santa Rosa, USA) and also a Certified Focusing Trainer with Specialization in  Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) granted by The International Focusing Institute (New York, USA).  She finished her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Advertising Arts from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. She is taking a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology at the same university.