About Carrie Young, LCSW, IMH-E® (She/her)

Carrie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW (Wisconsin License #7790-123).  She holds Infant Mental Health Endorsement® (IMH-E®) as an Infant Mental Health Clinical Mentor, an internationally recognized credential that supports and recognizes the development and proficiency of professionals who work with infants, toddlers, and their families.  She earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Work with a minor in Studio Art from Winona State University in 2005 and a master’s degree in Social Work with an emphasis on Mental Health from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 2008.  Carrie is a nationally rostered Trauma-Informed Child-Parent Psychotherapist (TI-CPP) and has worked extensively with children with histories of trauma as a treatment foster care social worker and as a mental health clinician.

Carrie has provided mental health therapy to children and families for over 15 years in both in-home and outpatient settings, working for large hospital systems as well as local non-profit agencies.  She most recently completed a research project with the UW-Madison in the Parent-Infant Mental Health Programs, working to deliver a professional development series to support Home Visitors in the use of the Brief Parent-Child Early Relationship Assessment (B-ERA) and conducting assessments of maternal mood, parenting stress, and trauma history in in-home settings in Milwaukee and Waukesha, WI.

In 2015, Carrie completed a fellowship in infant, early childhood, and family mental health at UW-Madison. She is currently a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and serves as a mentor providing reflective consultation to fellows completing the Capstone Certificate Program.

Carrie is also certified in Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI), which is a brief (5-8 sessions) evidence-based early mental health treatment developed for children, adolescents, and their caregivers during the acute phase of trauma response. CFTSI has been demonstrated to reduce traumatic stress symptoms and reducing or interrupting PTSD and related anxiety and depressive disorders, including for children who have extensive trauma histories. Children and caregivers participating in this model consistently experience a significant decrease in trauma symptoms.

Carrie is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health (WI-AIMH).  She currently provides reflective consultation to supervisors across the state of Wisconsin who are participating in the Reflective Supervision Learning Collaborative.

Carrie is a mom to two young children, ages 9 and 11, who inspire and challenge her every day.