LOUIS CARN, LISW-CP/(S)

TRiY Counseling Services, LLC is an emerging psychotherapy practice specializing in helping individuals (children, youth, adolescents, students, adults, families, support teams, the overall community) to overcome their life challenges and achieve their personal goals using a person-centered approach and incorporating elements of various evidenced-informed methodologies. We empower individuals to be the best versions of themselves and promote a culture of strength, positivity, self-determination, and resilience. We believe that by focusing on the strengths of the individual and his or her support team empowers the client and their connected system, establishing a more solid foundation. TRiY Counseling Services, LLC operates out of Columbia, SC (Richland County) and serves many of the surrounding counties and areas throughout South Carolina. Our services are provided within an office setting and some services via tele-health (video), with hopes of continuously expanding our services and offering more tele-health (video) sessions in the future. We provide individual, family, group counseling, clinical supervision, and consultation services. For Clinical Supervision, Clinical, Professional, or Business Consultations, Mentoring, Internship Opportunities, Licensure Preparation, and other Professional Development Services, please contact us by phone, online request, or visit our Professional Development Website at: https://triycommunity.teachable.com EVENING AND WEEKEND APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE! Mission: Our mission is to give power to the voiceless through collaborative experiences within the individual’s natural environment; maximizing their greatest potential, individuality, coping skills, and true resilience. Ultimately, we want to use our psychotherapy and counseling services to help empower clients to navigate their inner voices to be heard, be understood, and be listened to without being labeled or judged. We provide hope to families that have given up by assisting them in breaking down systemic barriers through advocacy and helping them navigate efficiently within their connected support systems. Goal: Our goal matches our commitment to ensure that each client referred to our clinical practice successfully Create A Resilient New(u), while promising to deliver with integrity, ingenuity, focus, respect, and professionalism. Objectives: We are dedicated to providing our clients with an organized and innovative process, which allows for focus and creativity by: a. Focusing on understanding the individual’s overall biopsychosocial development; b. Preventing and alleviating development of mental health issues and challenges leading to barriers in life; c. Addressing serious health problems, mental health, behavioral, educational, developmental, social, emotional, and economic stressors that exist in one’s natural environment; d. Prioritizing the strengths of the individual, support systems, and teams; e. Educating and collaborating with the community to help reduce stigma tied to mental health; f. Promoting the ability to be resilient and to get back up when life knocks you down. TRiY Counseling Services, LLC upholds the values of the Social Work profession of Service, Social Justice, Importance of Human Relationships, Integrity, Dignity, and Worth of the Person, and Competency. ABOUT OUR LEADERSHIP Louis Q. Carn was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised in Saint George, SC. Louis currently serves as a Licensed Independent Social Worker-Clinical Practice (LISW-CP/(S)) & Board Approved-Clinical Practice Supervisor for the State of SC. He obtained a Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from the University of South Carolina (2013), Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Coastal Carolina University (2010) and began his collegiate and academic coursework at Claflin University studying Sociology (2007). Louis is an ambitious Social Worker, with a strong commitment to serving the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable families, as well as, youth and adult populations, to help them improve the quality of their lives. He uses an eclectic approach to treatment by incorporating elements of the person-centered approach, solution-focused, strengths perspective, and resiliency framework in his practice experience. Most of Louis’ work and practice experience focuses on working with children, adolescents, youth, at-risk clients, families, and college students. He collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, professionals, and the overall community to ensure continuity of care. He has received training in the field of Social Work and mental health. He also pursues continuing education in a variety of areas, particularly on social work-related topics, mental health treatment and interventions, and ethics. Louis focuses on rebuilding positive relationships within systems and giving back to others in all that he does. Louis is the Clinical Executive Officer (CEO) at TRiY Counseling Services, LLC.