Carrie Lynn Bailey
Dr. Carrie Lynn Bailey is a Counselor Educator and a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 25 years of clinical experience in family, school, and college counseling settings. She has a strong grounding in humanistic perspectives that uphold the potential of each individual to grow and move forward along their unique developmental path and strives to facilitate this growth in both students and clients by fostering environments in which meaningful, self-directed learning can flourish.
As a Core Faculty and prior Academic Coordinator with Walden University’s School of Counseling [SOC], Dr. Bailey enjoys working with both faculty and students as a part of the SOC Student Response Team in helping to promote student retention and progression with a focus on facilitating a Community of Care for all of our SoC online students.
In addition to her work with Walden University, Dr. Bailey maintains a small counseling, supervision, and consultation practice and occasionally serves as an adjunct instructor for other Counselor Education programs. Her current research and advocacy interests include relational-cultural counseling and teaching approaches, affirmative therapy practices, the complex counseling needs of neurodivergent populations, expanding community cultural humility, and the application of humanistic counseling and educational approaches in fostering positive social change. Her service work includes serving as a Red Cross Disaster Mental Health volunteer and providing pro bono counseling and consultation through local K-12 schools and community organizations.
Courses Taught
COUN 6720 - Diagnosis and Assessment
COUN 6101 - Foundations in Counseling
COUN 6215 - Lifespan Development
COUN 6722 - Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories
COUN 6743 - Psychopharmacology
CPLB 602L - CMHC Pre-Practicum II
Education
PhD, The College of William & Mary
MEd, Old Dominion University
BS, The College of William & Mary
Public Service
3 Little Birds Counseling, LLC, Other - Williamsburg
American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health, Volunteer - Williamsburg
Williamsburg ARC, Volunteer - Williamsburg
PFLAG Williamsburg, Board Member - Williamsburg
Awards / Honors
Emerging Leader, Southern Association of Counselor Educators, 2008
Chi Sigma Iota - Outstanding Doctoral Student, The College of William & Mary, 2007
Award for Excellence, Kappa Delta Pi - The College of William & Mary, 2008
Publications
Powell, J. V., Bradley, N., Patton, J., Bailey, C. L., Szirony, G., Levingston, K. (2024). The application of Relational Cultural Theory in digitally delivered CE programs.. Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision
Bailey, C. L., Jenkins, C. (2021). Understanding obsessive-compulsive disorder in the school setting.
Bailey, C., Benoit, E., Jenkins, C. (2020). Early development and trauma within the culture of children: Teaching counselors in training to understand the effects of trauma and its misdiagnosis.
Hermann-Turner, K., Heyward, K., Bailey, C. (2019). Community Uprising: Counseling interventions, educational strategies, and advocacy tools. The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision
Wood, S., Bailey, C. (2018). Empowering parents of gifted students.
Trice-Black, S., Bailey, C., Kiper Riechel, M. (2013). Play Therapy in School Counseling. Professional School Counseling
Presentations
Lister, K. E., Letourneau, J., Sheridan, M., Bailey, C. (2024). Professional dispositions in counseling: An ethical double bind for educators and supervisors.. University of Holy Cross
Lister, K. E., Bailey, C., Sheridan, M. (2023). It takes a virtual village: Culturally-responsive support for students in an online learning environment. . ACES
Stauffer, M., Bailey, C. L., Capuzzi, T. D. (2023). Ethical and Legal Dilemmas of Student Support Programs in Counseling Departments. University of Holy Cross
Bailey, C. L., Andrews, B., Milo, L. A., Morgan, L. M., Nelson, K. (2022). Upholding and Promoting Academic Integrity and Professional Development in Online Programs. University of Holy Cross New Orleans, Louisiana
Bailey, C. L., Johnson, M. (2022). Exploring Moral Injury Through an Ethical, Legal and Multicultural Lens. University of Holy Cross
Bradley, N. L., Patton, J. L., Bailey, C. L., Levingston, K. B. (2021). The Application of Relational Cultural Theory in Distance Counselor Education Programs.
Bailey, C. L. (2020). Conversations on Cultural Humility in Building an Antiracist Community.
Bailey, C. L., McCracken, S., Wilcox, P., Taylor, T., Meyer, L., Kastyk, L., Gentile, S. T. (2020). Medical, Mental Health, and Therapy Practitioners working with 2e Students.
Bailey, C. L. (2020). Using the Narrative Counseling Tree of Life Exercise with Clients. School of Counseling
Bailey, C., Heyward, K., Hermann-Turner, K. (2018). Responding to Community Uprisings: A Crisis Response and Activism Model.
Heyward, K., Honderich, E., Bailey, C., Benoit, E. (2016). The Many Faces of Counselor Education and Supervision.
Wood, S., Bailey, C., Croft, L., Nicpon, M. F. (2014). Preparing Helping Professionals to Work with Gifted Students: Facilitating Partnerships between Gifted Centers and Preparation Programs.
Bailey, C., Dewell, J., Heyward, K., Hermann, K., Graham, M. (2013). Fostering Relevance & Reflection: Uniting Students through Experiential Activities in the Classroom.
Bailey, C. (2013). Gifted, Twice-Exceptional Students…At-Risk and Overlooked? .
Bailey, C. (2010). Examining the Relationship between Ego Development, Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration, and the Behavioral Characteristics of Gifted Adolescents. University of Calgary