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Our services
Individual Therapy
Once we’ve completed your initial visit, which helps us develop an understanding of your needs and how we might best work together to help you, we’ll begin your individual therapy sessions.
These appointments may be held in person or via telehealth, depending upon your needs and our therapists’ availability. With individual therapy, we can address a multitude of concerns, such as life transitions, depression, anxiety, and trauma, amongst others. You and your therapist will work together as a team to develop the best approach for your care.
Medication Management
Initial medication visits may last from 60-90 minutes, which allows your provider to gather the information necessary to make informed recommendations about your treatment. Follow-up visits may range from 15-30 minutes, depending upon your needs.
Our team strives to individualize care for each client and does not rely solely on prescription medication. Lifestyle modifications and natural products can play a large role in developing wellness and these may be a key factor in your treatment.
Therapy for Children and Adolescents
This process begins with a thorough assessment of your child’s background, challenges, and developmental history. Your therapist will work with you, your child, and other caregivers to develop a plan which could include improving emotional regulation, enhancing social skills, addressing behavioral concerns, or processing traumatic experiences.
There are many ways of engaging and working with children, and your therapist will find a way that works best for your child. Parents and caregivers are one of the most important parts of the therapeutic process which is why it’s necessary for us to work together in order to help your child thrive.
Couples Counseling
Your couples counselor will help you build an understanding about the dynamics of your relationship, your history, and the specific issues you may be facing separately or together. This could include individual sessions combined with your joint sessions in order to develop a more holistic view of your concerns.
Together with your therapist, you will establish a plan to help improve your relationship, which might include improving communication, resolving conflicts, rebuilding trust, or enhancing intimacy.
Family Therapy
There are times when it’s useful to work with a family as a whole, rather than each individual separately. In these cases, your therapist will see you together to help you develop an awareness and understanding about how each individual comes together to create a unique family system.
When there is disruption in a family, it is often related to the ways in which one person’s feelings and concerns impact another’s, which in turn impact another’s, and so on.
Your therapist will work with your family to address the interplay of these dynamics and help create a stronger, more functional family system.
Supervision and Brainspotting Consultation
Cheryl Goldberg, LCMHCS, LCAS, provides clinical supervision for LCMHC-A’s in North Carolina. She’s also credentialed to provide Brainspotting Consultation for therapists seeking certification in Brainspotting, or to others looking to enhance their Brainspotting practice.
Our Therapies
Brainspotting
Brainspotting, developed by Dr. David Grand, is a neuroexperiential approach which uses a fixed eye position to access unresolved emotional concerns and experiences stored deep in our subcortical brain. Brainspotting harnesses the brain’s natural self-healing ability to increase emotional regulation, and to lessen distress around issues and symptoms creating dysregulation. It recognizes that in order to effectively heal, we need to process events from a felt sense of those experiences, a “bottom up” approach, rather than simply talking about them, a “top down” approach. Brainspotting is an adaptive and creative approach to treating trauma, addictions, anxiety, and other body-based symptoms.
Several of our therapists participated in a recently published study using Brainspotting to treat PTSD. You can find the article here: Brainspotting: A Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
For more information about Brainspotting, watch Dr. Mark Grixti’s illustrated informational video and visit the website for the Southeast Brainspotting Institute.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT helps people learn to manage and regulate emotions. It was founded in the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy and the main components include mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
DBT is effective in treating a variety of concerns such as depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and personality disorders. You can find more information on DBT here.
Motivational Interviewing
MI is a client-centered style of therapy that helps people develop motivation for change by exploring and enhancing one’s own reasons for change within the therapeutic relationship. It’s helpful in treating substance use disorders, smoking, behavioral struggles, medical conditions, and other areas where people struggle to resolve ambivalence to change. Learn more about MI here.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness has many definitions, but in essence, it is about intentional, present moment awareness. “Paying attention to something, in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, nonjudgmentally” (Kabat-Zinn, 2003). Research shows that mindfulness is extremely effective in managing symptoms associated with a variety of concerns, such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, addiction, and trauma.
It’s been shown to improve cognitive flexibility, assist in emotional regulation, improve attention and focus, and increase self-compassion. There are many ways to approach mindfulness, and your therapist will help you find ways to implement this into your work together. More information about the way mindfulness impacts the brain is available here.