Prior to moving to Florida, Long Islander Carrie Trubenbach lived half of her life in New York and Brazil and 27 years in California. A licensed psychotherapist in California, she returned from Brazil before her father’s transition in 2012.
Although practiced in the art of healing and transformation, following the loss of her father, Carrie entered into her own deep inner spiritual journey. A friend had told her of a Bellair Bluffs condo for sale, and Carrie placed her bid, trusting in God’s will. With divine perfect timing, two weeks later, the condo was hers. She has renovated her Florida home as a sacred space, detaching herself from accumulations of over 50 years, choosing every item with divine intention.
A graduate of SUNY, the State University of New York, Carrie began her career at Victims Information Bureau, a progressive organization dedicated to preventing sexual and domestic violence and healing survivors through counseling, advocacy and education.
When she moved to San Francisco during a recession, Carrie experienced a dramatic career change, working at California Pacific Gas and Electric as an auxiliary operator, later embarking on her own lucrative career as a contractor, almost forgetting her plan to go to graduate school. After entering the PhD program at Meridian University in Petaluma, Carrie developed chronic fatigue syndrome and was bed ridden for a year. Realizing that if this continued she would have to depend on her parents’ care and return to New York, she adopted what became a lifetime principle and claimed her decision: “I am going to heal!” She opened her mind, saying yes to everything God put in her path. Six months later, she was healed and on her way to becoming a psychotherapist, eventually opening a private practice in Los Gatos and Santa Cruz.
As a spiritual counselor and coach, Carrie serves clients throughout the country online and by phone and is a consultant to a logistics company in Denver. Every year she sets a new goal to catapult her personal growth. This year, she became certified as a scuba diver; next year she plans to cycle 72 miles around Lake Tahoe. She has cycled from Belgium to Amsterdam and climbed Half Dome, a challenging Yosemite icon.
Now attending chaplaincy classes at UCC and producing a CD of original spiritual songs with Tim Burnaman, Carrie is a member of the Unity Singers. She also writes her own music and plays guitar. Formerly a music minister at Inner Light Ministries in Santa Cruz, she sang with the choir at the Monterey Jazz Festival and performed her own music at New Thought churches. After returning from Brazil and settling in Bellair Bluffs, Carrie first came to UCC in 2012. Drawn to the positive energy in the church, the people, the music, and Leddy’s ministerial approach and authenticity, Carrie has adopted UCC as her new spiritual home.