How Therapist Randi Crawford Survived a Near Fatal Car Wreck to Serve Others

By Ameera Steward | For The Birmingham Times A few months before graduating Birmingham’s Ramsay High School Randi Crawford was heading to work when her car hit black ice causing her to skid into a pole. “[The doctors] told my mom … I was going to die that night,” remembered Crawford. “But I didn’t die. I woke up three days later. They said, ‘well, she’ll be a vegetable.’” Within two months she was back at school and work, but not without challenges. The accident caused Crawford to lose her short-term memory and she had to relearn “everything” during her two months of recuperation from how to walk to how to write. This would later be helpful in building her into the therapist she is today because due to her short-term memory loss it’s beneficial to not take her patients’ stories into the next session, or into her life outside of the office, said the licensed professional counselor. By opening her own counseling office where she specializes in providing therapy to children, adolescents, teens, and young adults struggling with behavioral and mental health issues, Crawford said she found her purpose. Walks of Life, located at 105 Vulcan Road in Homewood, not...