/ CARRIE ALLYSON DYER / THERAPIST-IN-TRAINING / VISUAL TOOLS FOR THERAPISTS / TRAUMA-INFORMED + NEURODIVERGENT-AFFIRMING DESIGN /



/ Cloudwhale Collective / 

Each of us is a constellation of encounters,
memories, and histories, threads from our own lives
woven together with the wider human story.


Pieces and parts illustration

/ Origin Story /

Cloudwhale Collective began with a simple idea: none of us creates alone. Each of us is shaped by the people we meet, the stories we inherit, and the experiences that ripple through our lives. Our creativity is not isolated, it is part of a larger ecosystem of influence, imagination, and shared human history.

The name Cloudwhale reflects this sense of movement and connection. Like clouds that gather and disperse across the sky, ideas travel between people, evolving as they go. The “collective” honors the truth that every creative act is part of something larger than ourselves.

Ideas move between us like weather systems, gathering, shifting, and transforming as they pass through different minds. The name Cloudwhale reflects this sense of scale and motion: vast, drifting forms of thought and imagination traveling through a shared sky. The “collective” honors the truth that every work we create carries traces of others, teachers, collaborators, cultures, histories, an invisible constellation behind every act of making.

The Work







The Work

The work within Cloudwhale Collective explores how people make meaning. It brings together: trauma-informed care, neurodivergent-affirming perspectives, visual and expressive therapeutic tools, and systems thinking and ecological frameworks.These are not separate disciplines, but interconnected ways of understanding how individuals move through the world.

Visual Language

Many experiences in therapy are difficult to articulate. Visual tools offer another way in. Diagrams, symbols, and mapped systems can hold complexity in a way that language alone sometimes cannot. They allow clients and clinicians to see patterns, track change, and externalize what once felt overwhelming or invisible.

Intention

This space is not about perfection or completion. It is about process, curiosity, and the ongoing work of becoming. Cloudwhale Collective is both a personal and professional exploration, documenting the early stages of clinical work while continuing to evolve alongside the people and systems it seeks to understand.

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