Amidst a growing collective yearning for meaning and connection in therapeutic practices, Carolyn Bell answers the call, offering a sanctuary where clinical precision meets the soul’s innate wisdom, redefining what it means to truly heal. As the Founder of Carolyn Bell Roar of the Soul, she leverages her credentials as a Holistic Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Psychotherapist with a Summa Cum Laude M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology, advanced trauma certifications in EMDR and Tf-CBT, and diplomas in Clinical, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy. Blending psychology, somatic work, hypnotherapy, and spirituality, the framework empowers individuals to move beyond symptom relief and reclaim inner authority.
Her approach stems from her journey through perfectionism, corporate success, and personal transformation into awakening.Her multifaceted impact extends through her private practice, her role as a Senior instructor at Cambridge College teaching trauma and holistic psychotherapy, her position as a #1 international bestselling author of “Unshaken: The Roar of the Soul,” and her recognition in Marquis Who’s Who. Through all these channels, Carolyn’s leadership demonstrates how personal wounds can transform into purpose, championing a future where healing is as deeply human as it is clinical.
Corporate Success to Soul-Centered Healing
Carolyn Bell’s journey was never a straight climb up a career ladder, it was a profound evolution of self. The spark for her practice, Carolyn Bell Roar of the Soul, emerged from an intimate search for authenticity born in the quiet, challenging spaces between breaking and becoming. She hadn’t intended to build a movement; her first goal was simply to heal herself. She achieved success across diverse paths from Allied Health and Capital Equipment sales to historical restoration and Feng Shui consulting, yet beneath her accomplishments endured a quiet longing for peace, connection, and true fulfillment.
Confronting her own trauma and loss transformed Carolyn’s understanding of power not as control or perfection, but as quiet strength rooted in surrender, awareness, and grace. The awakening inspired a bold shift toward counseling and holistic healing, which she pursued with purpose and distinction, earning top honors in Psychology and Counseling Psychology and advanced training in hypnotherapy and trauma treatment.
Today, Carolyn Bell stands as a Holistic Licensed Mental Health Counselor and psychotherapist, a leader who masterfully integrates evidence-based psychology with spiritual wisdom. Roar of the Soul is the culmination of her lived experience and professional mastery, a sacred invitation for her clients to rise from adversity, heal their hearts, and rediscover the powerful roar that was never lost, only waiting to be heard.
The Crucible of Authentic Practice
Meaningful leadership often emerges through challenges that transform one’s approach to healing a truth Carolyn knows well. Her journey, raw and deeply human, took her from entry-level to Clinical Director, revealing the emptiness of success measured on paper. She often found herself in tears behind closed doors, overwhelmed by bureaucracy and the pain of witnessing systemic failures.
Propelled by deep disillusionment, Carolyn Bell took her greatest leap, leaving stability to create a private practice with no clients or safety net. The solitude of those early years became her teacher, revealing that true healing begins with radical honesty, resilience is born of surrender, and authentic service ultimately transcends traditional success.
The Evolution of a Healing Philosophy
Guided by years of practice and reflection, Carolyn’s therapeutic approach has evolved from traditional, pathology-focused treatment to what she calls “guiding people back home to themselves.” While her early training emphasized precision and symptom relief, experience revealed that true healing arises not from fixing brokenness, but from sacred remembrance.
Evolving from that realization, the core of Roar of the Soul reflects Carolyn’s integrative framework uniting existential inquiry with clinical practice. She guides clients through questions of identity, purpose, and suffering, blending evidence-based approaches, mindfulness-CBT, DBT, ACT, somatic awareness, and hypnotherapy with spiritual practices that honor the soul’s innate wisdom.
This comprehensive approach fundamentally recontextualizes the healing journey; rather than seeking to escape pain, clients learn to transform it through compassionate engagement. The ultimate objective is to empower individuals to reclaim authorship of their lives and awaken their inner roar, that essential truth and resilience that represents a return to the wholeness that existed before life’s narratives of limitation took hold.
A Client’s Transformation
When asked to illustrate the impact of her work, Carolyn recalls one client who perfectly embodies its essence: a woman who arrived after years of trauma, depression, and self-abandonment, her perfectionism serving as armor and her pain held as a secret. The client’s poignant admission,“I’m an imposter in my world, my career, my marriage, being a mother and friend, and I can’t fix this guilt and shame,” revealed the profound fragmentation beneath a surface of success and composure. Together, they embarked on what Bell describes as the slow, sacred work of remembering.
Their therapeutic journey wove together somatic awareness, hypnotherapy, and narrative re-authoring, enabling the client to hear her body’s truth and voice her story without shame. Mindfulness-based CBT blended with soul-centered rituals of release and self-compassion, guiding her to stop fleeing from pain and find strength in her once-broken places. The transformation culminated when she said,“I finally feel at home in myself.” The awakening spread through the client’s family and community, showing that healing means remembering one’s true self beneath the scars, a truth Bell cherishes as her greatest privilege.
The Synergy of Science and Soul Approach to Healing
At the heart of Carolyn’s philosophy lies a seamless fusion of evidence-based counseling and intuitive, human-centered care. She believes that while science and theory provide structure, intuition gives therapy its soul. In her approach, modalities like DBT, mindfulness-based CBT, and EMDR establish safety and clinical integrity, yet she emphasizes that beyond data and frameworks live the real stories of humanity, grief, longing, and the boundless capacity to heal.
In the sacred space where science meets soul, Carolyn Bell believes true healing begins. She teaches that intuition and profound presence are essential, challenging her graduate students with questions like:
- Can you sit with the sacred unknown?
- Can you listen beyond words to what the body, silence, or soul is expressing?
By revealing how emotions manifest in body and energy, she shows that true transformation arises when clinicians unite skill with intuition, turning therapy into sacred witnessing of human potential.
The Making of an Authentic Leader
In a world that often equates strength with perfection, Carolyn’s journey in the wellness space has been one of courage and reclamation. She broke through both external and internal barriers from male-dominated boardrooms to the silence of personal trauma and burnout. After years of overperformance and wearing strength as armor, she discovered that true leadership arose when she led with raw authenticity, no longer dimming her light to fit expectations.
Each challenge, whether rebuilding after personal loss or launching a private practice with no safety net, served as a potent lesson in redefining power. These experiences taught her that genuine influence stems not from control, but from the courage to be vulnerable and to lead with heart. These forged principles did more than shape her as a leader; they became the very foundation of the movement she now champions—one rooted in empowerment, truth, and the unshakable conviction that our deepest wounds can be transformed into our most powerful roar.
The Conscious Mental Health Movement
Carolyn Bell identifies a pivotal shift transforming the mental health landscape, the move toward integration, where evidence-based practice meets embodied wisdom and spirituality. As clients and students seek authenticity and meaning beyond symptom relief, outdated models separating mind, body, and soul are dissolving. Through Roar of the Soul, she stands at this intersection, guiding self-aware individuals and empowered healers to lead with integrity, compassion, and heart-centered purpose.
She envisions 2026 and beyond as the rise of “conscious mental health,” where trauma-informed spirituality, somatic awareness, and holistic empowerment become the foundation of care rather than the exception. Modeling this integration, Bell teaches others to anchor resilience, reclaim inner authority, and embody the roar of their soul. The movement, she emphasizes, extends beyond healing pain; it’s about transforming consciousness, awakening hearts, and empowering voices to bring light into darkness.
A Foundation of Excellence Credentials and Recognition
Carolyn’s professional authority is built upon a substantial foundation of academic achievement, clinical expertise, and public recognition.
Her credentials and accomplishments include:
- Recognition by Marquis Who’s Who for her dedicated contributions to the field of mental health counseling, a milestone that reflects her unique blend of professional mastery and soulful purpose.
- Advanced academic training, including an M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Cambridge College and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of New Hampshire, both earned Summa Cum Laude.
- Specialized clinical diplomas in Clinical, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Hypnotherapy from the Institute of Interpersonal Hypnotherapy, underscoring her commitment to comprehensive therapeutic tools.
- A distinguished professional role as a senior instructor at Cambridge College, where she guides graduate students through advanced courses such as Trauma Interventions, Holistic Approaches to Psychotherapy, and Terror, Trauma & the Sacred.
- Literary contributions as the #1 international bestselling author of Unshaken: The Roar of the Soul and the Path to Empowerment and a co-author of the collaborative work The Call Within: Finding Purpose and Sparking Transformation.
- Active professional affiliations with the American Counseling Association and state mental health associations, demonstrating her ongoing commitment to ethical practice and the advancement of integrative, soul-centered healing.
Strategic Expansion Scaling a Soulful Mission
Carolyn is leading a major expansion of Roar of the Soul, extending its impact through global speaking platforms and immersive experiences. Her 2026 vision focuses on amplifying empowerment through public engagement, pursuing keynote roles at wellness and leadership events. Favoring spontaneous, person-centered dialogue over scripted talks, she aims to spark genuine, transformative conversations that inspire lasting change.
Concurrently, Bell is developing a series of high-impact, immersive retreats to provide dedicated sanctuaries for deep rest and accelerated personal growth. The inaugural retreat, scheduled for August in the jungles of El Salvador, is strategically designed to facilitate profound self-discovery through a powerful combination of somatic healing, sacred ceremony, and cultural immersion.
Every strategic collaboration, partnership, and new offering under the Roar of the Soul banner is anchored in the same philosophy as Bell’s bestselling book Unshaken: The Roar of the Soul and the Path to Empowerment, guiding individuals from survival to empowerment and fragmentation to wholeness. Whether through the podium, the classroom, or the retreat space, her unwavering commitment remains the same: to awaken the innate roar within every soul ready to claim its power.
Unshaken An Instant Bestseller Movement Begins
Carolyn Bell’s powerful fusion of clinical expertise and spiritual wisdom has instantly captivated a global audience, with her book “Unshaken” achieving remarkable international bestseller status upon its release, signaling a profound shift in how we approach trauma and healing.
Instant International Bestseller
Within 24 hours of its November 2025 release, Unshaken: The Roar of the Soul and the Path to Empowerment hit #1 on Amazon in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, topping 15+ Self-Help and Psychology categories and surpassing bestsellers by James Clear and Mel Robbins.
Bridging Science and Soul
The book’s rapid success comes from its integration of evidence-based therapies EMDR, DBT, and somatic work with spiritual practices and meaning-making, offering a pioneering science-and-soul framework that helps readers reframe trauma and rebuild a life of safety, agency, and purpose.
Authority Forged Through Experience
Bell’s authority stems from her dual role as a Holistic Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Psychotherapist, specializing in trauma and Senior Instructor at Cambridge College. Combining clinical expertise, hypnotherapy credentials, and corporate leadership experience, she offers a uniquely credible roadmap for transforming deep pain into lasting power.
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An Open Letter to the Healers of Tomorrow
To the emerging leaders and practitioners in mental health and wellness,
Your presence is the true medicine. No certification can replace the power of being fully human with someone in pain. Healing isn’t about fixing; it’s about creating space for truth.
This path will test you with exhaustion and doubt, so hold steady with compassion and grounded empathy. Remember, the healer’s path is also one of healing clients that mirrors your own growth.
Nurture your light: rest, move, laugh, and lead with love, not ego. Perfection closes the heart; authenticity opens it. In simply being, true transformation unfolds for you and those you serve.
With Fierce Love,
Carolyn Bell, M.Ed., LMHC
Founder, Mental Health Counselor, and Psychotherapist
Roar of the Soul
Key Takeaways:
- True empowerment is found in surrender and authenticity, not control or perfection.
- Integrate evidence-based science with soul-centered wisdom for transformative healing.
- Shift from treating pathology to guiding people back to their sacred wholeness.
- Leadership requires courage to be vulnerable and lead from the heart.
- Personal transformation creates ripples that impact families, communities, and systems.
- Sustainable healing work requires radical self-care and boundaried compassion.
