Where healing ourselves while helping others comes full circle
Summon your most impactful therapeutic potential with Circles — deep and transformative group healing experiences guided by psychology and soul.
Experience the Circle
Immerse yourself in sacred collective healing and connection
Embody the Magic
Let the power of therapeutic Circle gatherings flow through you
Empower the World
Become a catalyst for profound community healing as a Circle facilitator
What Is The Circle?
A return to wholeness
The circle has no end and no beginning. There are no harsh edges or hierarchy. It is inclusive and balanced and sacred. It is whole.
When we gather in the Circle, as our wise women ancestors once did, we remember that we, too, are whole — and always have been.
After years of experiencing and experimenting with clinical group therapy and grounded spiritual practices, I’m honored to offer you a unique holistic approach that fosters connection, growth, and healing in togetherness.
When women come together and make a commitment to each other to be in a circle with a spiritual center, they are creating a vessel of healing and transformation for themselves, and a vehicle for change in their world.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
MEET YOUR CIRCLE GUIDE: CARRIE HAYNES, LPC
Longing for something...more?
I know the feeling. When I first started my clinical practice over 20 years ago, I felt like even though I was practicing what I was taught, I was only skimming the surface of the impact I could make.
It wasn’t long before I found group therapy — and then Circlework — which changed everything. It was like a door swung open and revealed a whole new way of practicing that fully aligned with my values and provided a healing space for both my clients and myself.
Since then, I have specialized in helping other women tap into their own healing potential by blending Western psychology with timeless spiritual wisdom. Together, we create group settings where deep personal growth naturally unfolds.
If you, too, are a spiritually-driven therapist craving a more connected, purpose-driven way to make your impact, this space is here for you.
Offerings
Experience The Circle
The Circle is not something you "learn" or "do." It's something you experience — and that starts here.
The Cup
VIRTUAL CIRCLE EXPERIENCE
This virtual experience offers a small yet potent taste of how Circles can transform your healing potential — and your life. Register now to join the next experience.
The Well
IMMERSIVE TRAINING RETREAT
Enriching your therapeutic practice all begins with experiencing the power of the Circle for yourself. Apply to attend our next immersive and transformative 4-day Circle retreat.
Cultivate The Circle
Further guidance for hosting your first transformative Circle and beyond.
The Compass
AS-NEEDED GUIDANCE
For those seeking guidance at any point on their path to offering group therapy or Circle healing experiences. Single sessions and monthly coaching available.
The Nest
MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
Through this 6-month mentorship program, your experience and intuition for guiding Circles matures into a deeply nurturing offering. Available to practitioners who have attended The Well Immersive Training Retreat.
Welcome to the Inner Circle
Join the Inner Circle newsletter for monthly dose of Circle wisdom, group work guidance, news, and upcoming events.
Drink From The Well
"This is the medicine I needed and I truly believe it's the medicine the world needs...
It is hard to put into words the growth and healing I have experienced since participating in Carrie’s Circle retreats. Each retreat I walk away feeling changed. More open. Connected to myself and others. Being held in such a safe and nurturing environment by brave and authentic women is both vulnerable and healing. This is the medicine I needed and I truly believe it’s the medicine the world needs.”
JADI FERGEN, MA, LPC, NCC
Altitude Counseling
If you feel drawn to the well of deeply transformative healing — where proven therapeutic methods and our innate spirituality meet — you've been called to the Circle.
You've been called home.
WE SAVED YOU A SEAT
A small dose of Circle magic, from the comfort of home.
Join us for a virtual Circle experience to gather, connect, and explore how Circles can transform you and your healing practice.
2.5-hour virtual Circle experience | $100
Now registering for August 23rd
9a PT/ 10a MT/ 11a CT/ 12p ET
Please note: Due to the intimate and relational nature of Circles, it is required that you attend “live” and join us for the entire experience. The session will not be recorded.
Stories From The Well
KIMBERLY ROSE, MEd, NCC, GEP CIG
“I left my first circle retreat differently than how I arrived. The time in authentic communion with other women and the purposeful spaciousness for self care was both deeply nourishing and a corrective experience for me. Though I showed up mentally open, my nervous system and heart were on guard due to previous unhealthy experiences with women in groups. But Carrie and the circle created opening after opening for us all to simply be ourselves with no expectations, to connect, to feel, to share, to move, to support each other, to play, to be quiet, and to drop into heart, body, and ancestry. The permission for all of this is my birthright, and to feel that birthright somatically touched something deep within. I’m so grateful to be thawing my freeze weeks after, and to be more oriented to heart in my daily life and work. This circlework is what the world needs. “
SIRI AUSTILL, LCSW
“The biggest sign of the Circle’s power has come since I’ve returned home: I feel more clear my vision and grounded in my body, and have already seen the positive impacts of this change in my work and relationships.”
MISSY SPLITTGERBER
“This retreat allowed so much to come through for me… Carrie facilitating so beautifully and giving so much time and space to allow for the THAW to happen internally. I was able to share my medicine and connect to what I can offer because that is what I was being given.”
