Carrie Contey

Carrie Contey resides in Austin, TX and holds her PhD in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute in California. Since 2005 Contey has served on the board of the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and is recognized internationally in this growing field. She has touched the lives of many practitioners, parents, infants and children with her workshops, seminars, classes, and in her private practice. Contey is committed to providing families and practitioners with compassionate guidance, leading-edge information and effective tools for creating conscious, balanced lives from before conception through childhood and beyond, with the goal being lifelong connection and healthy family lives.

From her work and from her desire to assist families in envisioning and creating the family life they want for themselves, Contey has co-founded the Slow Family Movement which is about "allowing family life to unfold in a way that is joyfully and consciously connected. This means slowing it down, finding comfort in the home, and creating the space to see and honor the family as an entity, while simultaneously keeping sight of each member as a unique and valuable individual."

Contey believes if parents and practitioners are taught from the onset to recognize their own desire for compassion and understanding, they can then meet babies and children in that same place, thereby building lifelong relationships founded in joyful and conscious connection.