ABOUT
Get to Know Us
and Our Philosophy
ABOUT OUR OWNER
Amy Heikkinen (She/Her),
Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C)
Carroll Creative Therapy is owned and led by Amy Heikkinen, LCSW-C. Amy obtained her masters degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and she has been working with vulnerable children and families since 2010. She spent over 5 years working with young children and teens in foster care and other residential settings, and she has worked with children overseas in orphanages and other institutions.
She has trained in many different play therapy modalities, including Child-Centered Play Therapy, Theraplay, and creative arts modalities. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, using playfulness, humor, and authenticity to connect and create meaningful relationships with clients.
OUR APPROACH
Creativity, Expression, Wellbeing
Carroll Creative Therapy is a psychotherapy practice in Westminster, Maryland. We serve clients of all ages, and provide evidence-based play therapy for children. For older children and teens, we combine strategies and wisdom from play therapy along with traditional talk therapy, often using age-appropriate tools like the creative arts, video games, and social media. Our work with adults tends to look more like traditional talk therapy, but incorporates many of these same elements through conversation. We are also proud to support gender-diverse and LGBTQ+ clients of all ages, and have a deep knowledge of the community.
Though each clinician in our practice has their own unique style and expertise, as a practice we are most focused on the relationship between client and therapist, and which serves as the primary vehicle for nearly all therapeutic change.
We specialize in the areas of adoption, attachment issues, grief and loss, lingering effects from trauma or maltreatment, anxiety (including health and social anxiety), depression, chronic oppositional behavior, gender diversity, and LGBTQ+ affirming care.
Meet The Team
Rachel Baldwin M.S., LGPC, CTP
Rachel Baldwin is a queer counselor who obtained her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from McDaniel College and is presently a Doctorate of Psychology Student at Stevenson University. Her child focuses are in ADHD, autism, special education, anxiety, and trauma, while adults are complex trauma, attachment disorders, and first responders. Rachel’s goal as a counselor is to compassionately help you with processing, healing, and understanding your emotional, behavioral, psychological, and cultural self as a whole mind and body approach. She utilizes creative expressive therapy, humanistic, and positive-solution focus within a cognitive behavioral therapy approach. Creative expression incorporates developing artistic outlets, coping techniques, and life skills mindfulness.
Before joining the counseling field, Rachel worked in the music industry and special education system for over ten years. She received a B.M. in Music Education and French Horn Performance, with a minor in Psychology. After 2019 Rachel returned to performing for soundtrack recordings, worked at psychiatric special needs schools teaching music, and led clubs for LGBTQIA+ Support Group and high violent student Coping Skills Group ages 9 to 25 years old. Rachel also volunteers at a Fire and EMS department advocating for mental health.
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Rachel lives on a farm, owns a lot of animals, and enjoys painting.