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Hello! I am a counselor licensed in North and South Carolina with over 22 years of experience. I’ve worked with a wide variety of issues including depression, anxiety, family and parenting issues, ADHD, behavioral issues, and more. I determine effective therapy strategies for each unique client, and employ a combination of Cognitive Behavioral, Schema Focused, Narrative, and Brief Solution Focused techniques. My clients tell me they appreciate that I am direct, honest, and hold them accountable, while also being compassionate. I am very practical and teach techniques that can be applied to most all situations in life.
Hello! I am a counselor licensed in North and South Carolina with over 22 years of experience. I’ve worked with a wide variety of issues including depression, anxiety, family and parenting issues, ADHD, behavioral issues, and more. I determine effective therapy strategies for each unique client, and employ a combination of Cognitive Behavioral, Schema Focused, Narrative, and Brief Solution Focused techniques. My clients tell me they appreciate that I am direct, honest, and hold them accountable, while also being compassionate. I am very practical and teach techniques that can be applied to most all situations in life.
I help people who’ve discovered that they have outgrown their lives find the most authentic versions of themselves. You may have become aware that something important in your life feels inauthentic, small or suffocating. This can manifest as symptoms of depression and anxiety, making you feel both overwhelmed and underwhelmed simultaneously. These life transitions can make you feel as if everything around you is falling away. This is fertile ground for growth and an ideal time to seek counseling. These experiences will break you, but can also be used as a catalyst to elevate you to create something more whole from the broken pieces.
I help people who’ve discovered that they have outgrown their lives find the most authentic versions of themselves. You may have become aware that something important in your life feels inauthentic, small or suffocating. This can manifest as symptoms of depression and anxiety, making you feel both overwhelmed and underwhelmed simultaneously. These life transitions can make you feel as if everything around you is falling away. This is fertile ground for growth and an ideal time to seek counseling. These experiences will break you, but can also be used as a catalyst to elevate you to create something more whole from the broken pieces.
Are you feeling anxious, sad, stressed, or overwhelmed? Are you struggling with painful feelings or a difficult relationship or situation? Is your marriage struggling? If so, I can help you find the solutions to the problems that trouble you. You'll find that I have a warm, non-judgmental, and easy style that helps people relax. I will help you actively learn new ways to cope, gain new insights, and experience new ways of relating to people or situations. I help people discover and eliminate destructive personal and interpersonal patterns, make difficult life decisions, and to find paths to greater fulfillment.
Are you feeling anxious, sad, stressed, or overwhelmed? Are you struggling with painful feelings or a difficult relationship or situation? Is your marriage struggling? If so, I can help you find the solutions to the problems that trouble you. You'll find that I have a warm, non-judgmental, and easy style that helps people relax. I will help you actively learn new ways to cope, gain new insights, and experience new ways of relating to people or situations. I help people discover and eliminate destructive personal and interpersonal patterns, make difficult life decisions, and to find paths to greater fulfillment.
Karen A Smith LMFT, LCAS
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, LCAS, MAC, SAP, SAE
Verified Verified
Franklin, NC 28734 (Online Only)
All these situations have involved special issues such as women's issues, domestic violence, divorce, mediation, trauma and abuse recovery, addiction, depression, anxiety, and male empowerment without aggression.
I enjoy working with clients who actively participate in their therapy. It is important to be ready to enter into therapy. The focus of therapy is on you not the others in your life - for after all you cannot change other people but rather the only person you can change is yourself. I can help you make the changes you want to make. Want to survive a trauma, stay sober, lose weight, interact better with others, recover from a loss, examine a troubled intimacy? This is what I do.
All these situations have involved special issues such as women's issues, domestic violence, divorce, mediation, trauma and abuse recovery, addiction, depression, anxiety, and male empowerment without aggression.
I enjoy working with clients who actively participate in their therapy. It is important to be ready to enter into therapy. The focus of therapy is on you not the others in your life - for after all you cannot change other people but rather the only person you can change is yourself. I can help you make the changes you want to make. Want to survive a trauma, stay sober, lose weight, interact better with others, recover from a loss, examine a troubled intimacy? This is what I do.
Society has often viewed vulnerability as a sign of weakness. I believe that by embracing and sharing our weaknesses we are demonstrating true strength. I am honored to walk beside my clients through some of their most difficult times in life. I respect and understand that the decision to "process and heal" from individual life experiences can be intimidating. I strive to build healthy and encouraging counselor-client relationships that will allow each person to feel safe and supported.
Society has often viewed vulnerability as a sign of weakness. I believe that by embracing and sharing our weaknesses we are demonstrating true strength. I am honored to walk beside my clients through some of their most difficult times in life. I respect and understand that the decision to "process and heal" from individual life experiences can be intimidating. I strive to build healthy and encouraging counselor-client relationships that will allow each person to feel safe and supported.
Stephanie Cheryl Bowman
Lic Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, LCMHCA
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Highlands, NC 28741
Waitlist for new clients
My passion lies in working with individuals who have experienced complex trauma and those currently living with eating disorders or disordered eating. It is my goal to help my clients no longer feel alone, and to move from a place of shame and guilt to one of believing and knowing that all of their parts are good.
My passion lies in working with individuals who have experienced complex trauma and those currently living with eating disorders or disordered eating. It is my goal to help my clients no longer feel alone, and to move from a place of shame and guilt to one of believing and knowing that all of their parts are good.
Social anxiety is bringing you down and limiting your life. You want solid friendships and maybe a romantic partner too, but anxiety gets in the way and you hide out instead. You see your peers connecting easily with others and feel alone and frustrated because for you, those relationships feel out of reach. How are you supposed to meet someone special when the idea of meeting in person has you shaky and nauseated? How are you supposed to make new friends when attempts at small talk leave you certain you sounded or looked stupid? And actually getting to know your neighbors and co-workers? At this point? Forget it.
Social anxiety is bringing you down and limiting your life. You want solid friendships and maybe a romantic partner too, but anxiety gets in the way and you hide out instead. You see your peers connecting easily with others and feel alone and frustrated because for you, those relationships feel out of reach. How are you supposed to meet someone special when the idea of meeting in person has you shaky and nauseated? How are you supposed to make new friends when attempts at small talk leave you certain you sounded or looked stupid? And actually getting to know your neighbors and co-workers? At this point? Forget it.
Jessica Chastain Tewell
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, MDiv, LCSW
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Franklin, NC 28734 (Online Only)
I understand that life can take us through some tough and unexpected turns. My goal is to support you as you navigate these challenges, whether you're going through a big life change, managing stress, or just looking to understand yourself better.
I understand that life can take us through some tough and unexpected turns. My goal is to support you as you navigate these challenges, whether you're going through a big life change, managing stress, or just looking to understand yourself better.
Hello, my name is Margurite Reaves; I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). I approach the therapeutic process with an individualized approach. My areas of expertise include mood disorders, unhealthy attachment patterns, trauma, and conduct disorders. I have several years of experience working with adults, children/adolescence, and families in areas that include but are not limited to depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, relationship issues, adjustment issues, defiant behaviors, stress management, and trauma.
Hello, my name is Margurite Reaves; I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). I approach the therapeutic process with an individualized approach. My areas of expertise include mood disorders, unhealthy attachment patterns, trauma, and conduct disorders. I have several years of experience working with adults, children/adolescence, and families in areas that include but are not limited to depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, relationship issues, adjustment issues, defiant behaviors, stress management, and trauma.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor who mainly utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help my clients. My goal is to help people identify ways to alter their own thinking in order to improve communication and decrease feelings of fear, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, etc,. By utilizing active listening skills and applying different therapeutic approaches, I strive to help my clients recognize patterns in behaviors and/or negative thoughts which may be keeping them from living the life they desire. Small changes can be made to help clients recognize these patterns and live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. I look forward to working with you.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor who mainly utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help my clients. My goal is to help people identify ways to alter their own thinking in order to improve communication and decrease feelings of fear, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, etc,. By utilizing active listening skills and applying different therapeutic approaches, I strive to help my clients recognize patterns in behaviors and/or negative thoughts which may be keeping them from living the life they desire. Small changes can be made to help clients recognize these patterns and live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. I look forward to working with you.
Dana E Mills
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCMHC, LCAS, CCS
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Highlands, NC 28741
Everyone faces difficulties in life at some point and can use discreet, compassionate, non-judgemental support to develop strategies to manage and overcome those difficulties. No single therapeutic approach can treat every individual. I believe that recovery and improvement are possible for everyone. Therapy helps find solutions that foster a sense of personal empowerment to make choices in your own recovery. My therapeutic approach focuses on an individual's strengths to engage in their life. Learn skills to help manage and treat anxiety, depression, mood and personality disorders, substance use issues, and trauma resolution.
Everyone faces difficulties in life at some point and can use discreet, compassionate, non-judgemental support to develop strategies to manage and overcome those difficulties. No single therapeutic approach can treat every individual. I believe that recovery and improvement are possible for everyone. Therapy helps find solutions that foster a sense of personal empowerment to make choices in your own recovery. My therapeutic approach focuses on an individual's strengths to engage in their life. Learn skills to help manage and treat anxiety, depression, mood and personality disorders, substance use issues, and trauma resolution.
Deborah L Rasso
Counselor, MS, LMHC, MCAP, NCC, LCMHC
Verified Verified
Otto, NC 28763 (Online Only)
Not accepting new clients
Every new day is a chance to change your life. My job as a counselor is to help you make the change in your life that will bring you to a better place. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship issues or having problems with adjustment to any new life situation, things can get better with help through counseling. I have a special fondness for working with people who struggle with addictions (drug, alcohol, gambling, eating, etc). Addictions are a coping skill that can be replaced with more healthy choices. Working together we will find a better way!
Every new day is a chance to change your life. My job as a counselor is to help you make the change in your life that will bring you to a better place. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship issues or having problems with adjustment to any new life situation, things can get better with help through counseling. I have a special fondness for working with people who struggle with addictions (drug, alcohol, gambling, eating, etc). Addictions are a coping skill that can be replaced with more healthy choices. Working together we will find a better way!
Online Therapists
Karing Counseling
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCMHCS , CCS, LCAS ,
Verified Verified
Forest City, NC 28043
Are you struggling with how to work though trauma and the way it currently impacts your life ? Do you struggle to get though the present, without looking back to the past and the pain that it inflicted. There is hope to have a better life, establish the life you want and need. I start with meeting you there, and helping you build the boundaries and moving toward the life that you want to live. I offer a safe space for you to build this life that you are craving.
Are you struggling with how to work though trauma and the way it currently impacts your life ? Do you struggle to get though the present, without looking back to the past and the pain that it inflicted. There is hope to have a better life, establish the life you want and need. I start with meeting you there, and helping you build the boundaries and moving toward the life that you want to live. I offer a safe space for you to build this life that you are craving.
Arcana Counseling and Tarot
Lic Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate, LCMHC, NCC, MS
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Asheville, NC 28801
Do you struggle to slow down, mentally, physically, both? Are you weighed down by perfectionism and the anxiety it creates? Is it hard to find that place of “good enough” in the things you do? Maybe you’ve spent years, or even decades, honing your “type A” personality only to realize you’re not finding satisfaction in your achievements. Do those 3 AM questions plague you – What is life really about? Am I doing the right things with my life? When will I get a chance to do what I really want? Am I enough? Is this all there is?
Do you struggle to slow down, mentally, physically, both? Are you weighed down by perfectionism and the anxiety it creates? Is it hard to find that place of “good enough” in the things you do? Maybe you’ve spent years, or even decades, honing your “type A” personality only to realize you’re not finding satisfaction in your achievements. Do those 3 AM questions plague you – What is life really about? Am I doing the right things with my life? When will I get a chance to do what I really want? Am I enough? Is this all there is?
Valerie B Smith
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCMHC, NCC, AAPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Hendersonville, NC 28739
Children, teenagers and adults are welcome at my office. For 30 years, I have helped those ages 2 years to 75 years to lead confident and comfortable lives. I provide developmentally focused psychotherapy for chilren and teenagers. I also work with adults who want their lives to change. You and/or your family's relationship with me is confidential and respectful.
Children, teenagers and adults are welcome at my office. For 30 years, I have helped those ages 2 years to 75 years to lead confident and comfortable lives. I provide developmentally focused psychotherapy for chilren and teenagers. I also work with adults who want their lives to change. You and/or your family's relationship with me is confidential and respectful.
We all need support sometimes to cope with life’s challenges. I am here to help. My top priority is to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space for you to feel connected and understood. Together we will explore what you hope to get out of therapy, identify strengths and barriers, and actively develop solutions. I will help you to take manageable risks to live authentically, process painful thoughts and feelings, and achieve your goals for a healthy and fulfilling life. I take an integrative approach, drawing from cognitive-behavioral and contemporary psychodynamic and attachment based approaches.
We all need support sometimes to cope with life’s challenges. I am here to help. My top priority is to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space for you to feel connected and understood. Together we will explore what you hope to get out of therapy, identify strengths and barriers, and actively develop solutions. I will help you to take manageable risks to live authentically, process painful thoughts and feelings, and achieve your goals for a healthy and fulfilling life. I take an integrative approach, drawing from cognitive-behavioral and contemporary psychodynamic and attachment based approaches.
Gracie McCarroll
Licensed Professional Counselor, MFA, MS, LCMHC
Verified Verified
Asheville, NC 28804
I am devoted to working with individuals who are curious about when and how their suffering and emotional distress began. In my work, I notice that such suffering is often the result of long established patterns of thinking and acting. Such patterns were at one time essential for the individual to cope with distress but with repetition and the accumulation of life experiences, they can become destructive. The power of a therapist trained to make space for such sufferings can provide alleviation from long standing pain.
I am devoted to working with individuals who are curious about when and how their suffering and emotional distress began. In my work, I notice that such suffering is often the result of long established patterns of thinking and acting. Such patterns were at one time essential for the individual to cope with distress but with repetition and the accumulation of life experiences, they can become destructive. The power of a therapist trained to make space for such sufferings can provide alleviation from long standing pain.
Julia Nelson
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, LCMHC
Verified Verified
4 Endorsed
Rutherfordton, NC 28139
Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, or grief that affects your day-to-day life, relationships, your ability to function, or your work? Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or frustrated by just getting through the day? Are you hoping life could be better? Now more than ever, people feel anxious and overwhelmed about managing their lives. It shouldn’t be so hard to live a better life, there is hope and answers.
Are you struggling with anxiety, depression, or grief that affects your day-to-day life, relationships, your ability to function, or your work? Do you feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or frustrated by just getting through the day? Are you hoping life could be better? Now more than ever, people feel anxious and overwhelmed about managing their lives. It shouldn’t be so hard to live a better life, there is hope and answers.
I have been providing counseling services in the Asheville area since 2005. I offer a safe, gentle, strengths based approach in working with children and families. I primarily use a cognitive-behavioral approach with a strong emphasis on expressive arts and play as tools for self expression. I find this approach works well in helping children improve emotional regulation, verbalization of thoughts/feelings and helps them identify strengths/skills.
I have been providing counseling services in the Asheville area since 2005. I offer a safe, gentle, strengths based approach in working with children and families. I primarily use a cognitive-behavioral approach with a strong emphasis on expressive arts and play as tools for self expression. I find this approach works well in helping children improve emotional regulation, verbalization of thoughts/feelings and helps them identify strengths/skills.
Sorry - Only virtual appointments right now. I believe that the relationship between therapist and client must be collaborative. Each course of treatment is unique. It is your journey but we travel it together. A client needs to be motivated to change, able to give and take feedback and be ready to take responsibility for his/her own life. My approach to therapies - psychotherapy, biofeedback and hypnosis all stress increasing conscious awareness of YOU so that you can have greater control and choose the life you want to live.
Sorry - Only virtual appointments right now. I believe that the relationship between therapist and client must be collaborative. Each course of treatment is unique. It is your journey but we travel it together. A client needs to be motivated to change, able to give and take feedback and be ready to take responsibility for his/her own life. My approach to therapies - psychotherapy, biofeedback and hypnosis all stress increasing conscious awareness of YOU so that you can have greater control and choose the life you want to live.
Female Therapists
Does it matter what gender my therapist is?
In general, this is not an important factor, as there is no relationship between a therapist’s gender and their efficacy. Some clients, however, prefer to see therapists of a particular gender, whether due to their own past experiences with men and women, or ingrained beliefs about how people of different genders think and behave. Exploring the roots of such preferences and considering what one wants to address in therapy can help someone determine whether their therapist’s gender truly matters to them.
Should I see a female therapist?
Many people—not just women—prefer to see a female therapist, either because they believe that a woman will be able to relate to their specific challenges (for example, sexism in the workplace) or because they imagine feeling more comfortable disclosing sensitive information to a woman. Such beliefs may not turn out to be accurate, however, and adhering too rigidly to a gender preference can at times hinder a client from finding the best therapeutic match.
Do therapists get specific training to help with women’s concerns?
Therapists are trained to provide care to clients of any gender. However, some therapists—both men and women—may pursue additional training in feminist therapy, gender-specific issues, or women’s mental health. Female clients may wish to ask prospective therapists whether they have received specific training in the client’s primary area(s) of concern, or whether they have worked extensively with women on issues similar to their own.
How can I inquire about a therapist’s experience in treating women?
It’s OK—even encouraged!—to ask a therapist directly whether and how often they have treated women in the past, or whether they have treated women dealing with the client’s most prominent concern(s). Competent therapists will be happy to share their educational background, preferred treatment modalities, and prior client experience to help an individual find the therapist best suited to their needs.