Boulware Carol, PhD

Dr Boulware is a caring, competent and extremely capable therapist. Besides being a great therapist, she is very skilled in using EMDR and is a highly trained and Board Certified sex therapist. She has a deep understanding of how to treat sexual problems. I would never hesitate to refer anyone to her. I trust Carol. I know her to be a wise person, who only has the best interest of her clients at heart.

Carol Boulware is a cold, self absorbed, egotistical therapist who makes judgement calls without even knowing all of the information. She projects her own still onto others as soon as she is in contact with them. She was incredibly rude to me and you could not pay me enough money to see her.

I’m so sorry to hear that the user below had such a poor experience, but Carol is a great therapist. She is direct, to the point, and has a knack for helping people.

Over the years, Dr. Boulware has helped me resolve difficult relationship issues in my marriage and also with my children. I have been to other therapists in the past, but Dr. Boulware is the most effective in the shortest period of time. She has always lived up to the highest standards of integrity and professionalism. The best thing for me is that she uses newer methods that get to the source of the problem quickly and helped me deal with things in a lot less time. I am deeply grateful for her invaluable help.

Carol Boulware is an irresponsible, incompetent, and I would even say dangerous, therapist. She tried to advise my partner and I with relationship difficulties, and without knowing the facts took his side. She had us privately write to her about our grievances with one another, which set up an atmosphere of mistrust. Her reaction to the tears that flooded out of me in the sessions was rejection, impatience, and the statement, «maybe you should go on medication.» She tricked me into feeling safe by at first explaining to him that tears are okay, then later coldly rejected me on the basis of those tears. She was disgusted with my lack of control, and rewarded him for his control, setting up an environment in which it was unsafe to experience or express emotions. She had us enact new-​agey scenarios in which we expressed love for each other, as if that was a suitable replacement for the feelings themselves. Hearing him repeat her loving words to me is what made me cry, as it seemed a a cruel joke to hear them when they were only part of an exercise. Her response to my sadness at lack of intimacy with my partner, and my protestations that it was not an anger issue but an intimacy issue, was, «are you saying you just want to get f****d?» After 4 sessions she basically dropped us, and soon after my partner dropped me (after a relationship of many years) saying «I knew after I saw the look in her eyes, the way she looked at you, that something was wrong.» We are now happily back together, but the damage she caused has had lasting effects. I did not realize, going into a therapy session, that not all therapists are wise and kind and know how to express compassion for others in pain. I was expecting to go to a place where it was safe to cry and be sad. Beware her contempt disguised as compassion, and beware her willingness to prescribe medication for such disruptive behavior as emotions and tears. She behaved exactly like my abusive parents, playing favorites, rejecting and ridiculing me for expressing my feelings, and letting me know that because of that transgression she would have nothing to do with me.