Carter Umhau is an artist, creative mentor, and therapist living—after many years away—in Washington, DC, the city where she was born.

Carter works at the intersection of healing and creativity, hosting classes and workshops, working one-on-one with clients, and feeling into the edges her own writing and art practices.

Carter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and a Master’s in Counseling Psychology. She has been hosting creative workshops for over fifteen years, and has been practicing psychotherapy for over ten.

She has created poetry workshops; helped doula people’s stories into playwriting; created curriculum for clients in eating disorder treatment to teach creative expression as a means of building shame resilience; and co-founded an improv-based  therapeutic dance group.