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\u201cWitnessing clients’ resilience and growth continually reinforces why I chose this profession. This work reminds me of the importance of small, relational moments amid the larger systems that shape clients’ lives.\u201dHobbyist: Perfume collector\u00a0\u00a0Traveler: Has been to five continents\u00a0\u00a0Music\u00a0lover: Loves going to concerts and music festivals\u00a0Dog owner: Named her dog Coconut after the dog from American Girl Dolls\u00a0\u00a0Favorite FSU spots: The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and The FSU Flying High Circus\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marriage and Family Therapy doctoral candidate Carson Outler works as a therapist and on-call victim advocate for the FSU community.<\/p>\n
She balances her clinical work with doctoral research on \u201csandwiched\u201d\u00a0caregivers,\u00a0adults\u00a0who\u00a0simultaneously\u00a0care\u00a0for aging\u00a0parents and\u00a0dependent\u00a0children. Her goal is to\u00a0inform national policies\u00a0that provide\u00a0better support\u00a0for\u00a0caregivers.<\/p>\n
Outler\u2019s\u00a0research has taken her\u00a0to\u00a0Japan,\u00a0Scotland\u00a0and Norway\u00a0for the International Family Therapy Association conferences. She\u00a0has also\u00a0contributed\u00a0to multiple peer-reviewed articles.<\/p>\n
Outler\u00a0also\u00a0brings her\u00a0research and clinical\u00a0experience\u00a0into the classroom, where\u00a0she\u00a0mentors undergraduate students\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0Anne Spencer Daves\u00a0College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why did you choose\u00a0FSU?<\/p>\n FSU\u2019s Marriage and Family Therapy<\/a> department is a top training program. I was drawn to the\u00a0opportunities to expand my research,\u00a0clinical\u00a0and teaching skills under the mentorship of knowledgeable and supportive faculty.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n During my campus visit, I quickly fell in love with the university and its extensive resources for students. I saw not only a place where I could advance academically, but a community where I could grow both as a scholar and as a person.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n What academic achievements are you most proud of?<\/p>\n I secured competitive external funding to support my dissertation research on sandwiched caregivers.\u00a0I was honored to receive three funding resources: the American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the Mental Research Institute and the Dissertation Grant from The Foundation for the Contemporary Family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n These awards affirmed the importance of my research, provided the resources necessary to give back to my participants and the ability to travel to\u00a0disseminate\u00a0my findings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n How do you serve the FSU community?<\/p>\n I provide therapy at the FSU Center for Couple and Family Therapy<\/a> and the FSU Multidisciplinary Center<\/a>. In these settings, I work with individuals, couples,\u00a0families\u00a0and groups facing\u00a0a\u00a0range\u00a0of presenting concerns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I also serve as an on-call victim advocate, providing confidential crisis support to FSU students, faculty and staff who have experienced victimization. Witnessing clients\u2019 resilience and growth continually reinforces why I chose this profession. This work reminds me of the importance of small, relational moments amid the larger systems that shape clients\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Name: Carson OutlerMajor: Marriage & Family Therapy\u00a0\u00a0Graduation: Spring 2026Hometown: Columbus, GACollege: Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[56740,80226,128625,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-308142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-anne-spencer-daves-college-of-education-health-and-human-sciences","tag-fsu-multidisciplinary-center","tag-fsu-student-star","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}