Therapists for Teens and Adolescents in Durham, NC
Katherine Mayfour
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MA, MSW, LCSW
Durham, NC 27707
Waitlist for new clients
Hi, my name is Kate, and I'm glad you're here. I have experience working with individuals of all ages dealing with eating disorders, neurodivergence, anxiety, self-esteem, and trauma-related challenges. I also work with couples and specialize in working with queer and neurodivergent couples. I am deeply committed to maintaining an anti-racist, feminist, queer and neurodiversity-affirming lens, and incorporating a systems perspective to explore your experience in context of oppressive systems.
Hi, my name is Kate, and I'm glad you're here. I have experience working with individuals of all ages dealing with eating disorders, neurodivergence, anxiety, self-esteem, and trauma-related challenges. I also work with couples and specialize in working with queer and neurodivergent couples. I am deeply committed to maintaining an anti-racist, feminist, queer and neurodiversity-affirming lens, and incorporating a systems perspective to explore your experience in context of oppressive systems.
My primary areas of experience and focus are as follows: 1) Helping children, teens and their families navigate challenges associated with life stressors and/or diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression, 2) Assisting parents to strengthen their skills and communication methods via individual and/or family sessions, and 3) providing support to individuals and families managing food allergies and/or other health conditions impacting dietary needs.
I am trained in evidence-based approaches including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention, Behavioral Parent Training, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
My primary areas of experience and focus are as follows: 1) Helping children, teens and their families navigate challenges associated with life stressors and/or diagnoses such as ADHD, anxiety, and depression, 2) Assisting parents to strengthen their skills and communication methods via individual and/or family sessions, and 3) providing support to individuals and families managing food allergies and/or other health conditions impacting dietary needs.
I am trained in evidence-based approaches including Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention, Behavioral Parent Training, and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
I also have experience working with at risk adolescents and their families, both in and out of the school system.
I provide both outpatient mental health therapy and substance abuse/use assessments and therapy to all members of the community. Clients experiencing such issues as depression/anxiety, PTSD/trauma, life changes, gender identity concerns, and substance use will benefit from the services I offer. I utilize a person centered approach and work collaboratively with clients to address their needs. I meet clients 'where they are' and work with them to identify positive interventions and change. The comprehensive clinical assessments and substance abuse assessments I provide meet criteria for court ordered and school referred clients and can be completed in office or at your location.
I also have experience working with at risk adolescents and their families, both in and out of the school system.
I provide both outpatient mental health therapy and substance abuse/use assessments and therapy to all members of the community. Clients experiencing such issues as depression/anxiety, PTSD/trauma, life changes, gender identity concerns, and substance use will benefit from the services I offer. I utilize a person centered approach and work collaboratively with clients to address their needs. I meet clients 'where they are' and work with them to identify positive interventions and change. The comprehensive clinical assessments and substance abuse assessments I provide meet criteria for court ordered and school referred clients and can be completed in office or at your location.
A majority of my work is with college-aged students, young adults, collegiate student-athletes, and youth athletes.
I have spent more than eight years helping individuals navigate challenges related to anxiety, depression, stress, identity, relationships, life transitions, and sport performance pressure. We can work together to understand and define your personal values and find direction in your life. I also specialize in LGBTQ clients and identity exploration.
A majority of my work is with college-aged students, young adults, collegiate student-athletes, and youth athletes.
I have spent more than eight years helping individuals navigate challenges related to anxiety, depression, stress, identity, relationships, life transitions, and sport performance pressure. We can work together to understand and define your personal values and find direction in your life. I also specialize in LGBTQ clients and identity exploration.
I believe you are the expert on whatever it is you’re going through. You know best what you need, even if it feels unclear right now. I will work with you at your pace, wherever you may be at this moment, to help you feel supported, empowered, and at peace as you move toward your goals. With a foundation of trust and mutual respect, we will create a plan for therapy that honors who you are, what you value, and where you want to be.
I believe you are the expert on whatever it is you’re going through. You know best what you need, even if it feels unclear right now. I will work with you at your pace, wherever you may be at this moment, to help you feel supported, empowered, and at peace as you move toward your goals. With a foundation of trust and mutual respect, we will create a plan for therapy that honors who you are, what you value, and where you want to be.
I help high-achieving kids, teens, and adults who are often praised for their talents yet quietly struggle with anxiety, perfectionism, or feeling like they’re never enough.
I help high-achieving kids, teens, and adults manage anxiety, perfectionism, and self-doubt. Using evidence-based and compassionate approaches, I support clients in building emotional resilience and a sense of self beyond performance. I also guide parents in understanding and supporting their gifted or sensitive child with more clarity and confidence.
I help high-achieving kids, teens, and adults who are often praised for their talents yet quietly struggle with anxiety, perfectionism, or feeling like they’re never enough.
I help high-achieving kids, teens, and adults manage anxiety, perfectionism, and self-doubt. Using evidence-based and compassionate approaches, I support clients in building emotional resilience and a sense of self beyond performance. I also guide parents in understanding and supporting their gifted or sensitive child with more clarity and confidence.
I provide individual, couples and family therapy to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
I tend to be matter of fact but use humor and examples as well. Grounded in CBT but I also utilize other strategies. I ally with children to help improve task follow through and reduce consequences. I provide information/education about risks and benefits, and I provide information about symptoms/behaviors being within or outside the norm for someone's age.
I provide individual, couples and family therapy to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
I tend to be matter of fact but use humor and examples as well. Grounded in CBT but I also utilize other strategies. I ally with children to help improve task follow through and reduce consequences. I provide information/education about risks and benefits, and I provide information about symptoms/behaviors being within or outside the norm for someone's age.
With more than 25 years experience in the mental health field, I provide therapy, parent coaching, and psychological evaluations for children, teens, and adults.
I believe therapy is a journey of self-discovery, and I strive to create a warm, supportive space where clients feel heard and understood. My goal is to help children build social and emotional skills, teens manage stress while developing confidence and a strong sense of identity, and adults cultivate balance and wellbeing.
With more than 25 years experience in the mental health field, I provide therapy, parent coaching, and psychological evaluations for children, teens, and adults.
I believe therapy is a journey of self-discovery, and I strive to create a warm, supportive space where clients feel heard and understood. My goal is to help children build social and emotional skills, teens manage stress while developing confidence and a strong sense of identity, and adults cultivate balance and wellbeing.
Our therapists are accustomed to mutual collaboration to serve the needs of children, adolescents, and their families in one setting.
We specialize in psychological and spiritual wellness for all ages by taking a bio-psycho-social-spiritual view of the person in community, including couples and groups. We allow our clients to lead us into the religious and/or spiritual terrain that provides the most meaning to them.
Our therapists are accustomed to mutual collaboration to serve the needs of children, adolescents, and their families in one setting.
We specialize in psychological and spiritual wellness for all ages by taking a bio-psycho-social-spiritual view of the person in community, including couples and groups. We allow our clients to lead us into the religious and/or spiritual terrain that provides the most meaning to them.
With over 20 years of experience, I’ve provided mental health services to children (10&up), teens, and adults in diverse settings, including outpatient programs, in school and afterschool programs, group homes, in-home and inpatient facilities like psychiatric hospitals.
I use an eclectic approach grounded in CBT, psychodynamic and person-centered techniques. Depending on each client’s needs, whether processing trauma, managing current challenges, or navigating future worries—I tailor strategies using either a solution-focused or insight-oriented framework.
With over 20 years of experience, I’ve provided mental health services to children (10&up), teens, and adults in diverse settings, including outpatient programs, in school and afterschool programs, group homes, in-home and inpatient facilities like psychiatric hospitals.
I use an eclectic approach grounded in CBT, psychodynamic and person-centered techniques. Depending on each client’s needs, whether processing trauma, managing current challenges, or navigating future worries—I tailor strategies using either a solution-focused or insight-oriented framework.
I'm available after-school hours for children and teens.
If you feel stuck and like you can't find the path forward, know that you don't have to take the next steps alone. It can be overwhelming to find yourself or your child caught in a pattern of intense emotions that makes navigating the stress of each day feel like too much to handle. It may feel like the cycle of anxiety, frustration, and exhaustion will never end. You may feel unsure how to wake up each morning and take steps towards growing your relationships and achieving your goals. Therapy can provide a safe space to process these common feelings of uncertainty and develop a path towards peace and balance.
I'm available after-school hours for children and teens.
If you feel stuck and like you can't find the path forward, know that you don't have to take the next steps alone. It can be overwhelming to find yourself or your child caught in a pattern of intense emotions that makes navigating the stress of each day feel like too much to handle. It may feel like the cycle of anxiety, frustration, and exhaustion will never end. You may feel unsure how to wake up each morning and take steps towards growing your relationships and achieving your goals. Therapy can provide a safe space to process these common feelings of uncertainty and develop a path towards peace and balance.
We all live multi-storied lives. The stories that we tell ourselves and others shape who
we are in our day-to-day lives. Working through our own personal narratives can help us understand how our problem saturated stories hold exceptions for hope and change. Whether you are experiencing a life transition, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, perinatal/postpartum mental health, or grief, hope is still present. My intention is to collaborate with you to explore, unpack, and map out meaningful goals that match your new story.
We all live multi-storied lives. The stories that we tell ourselves and others shape who
we are in our day-to-day lives. Working through our own personal narratives can help us understand how our problem saturated stories hold exceptions for hope and change. Whether you are experiencing a life transition, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, perinatal/postpartum mental health, or grief, hope is still present. My intention is to collaborate with you to explore, unpack, and map out meaningful goals that match your new story.
To me, therapy isn’t a workbook or a road map that’s the same for everyone. Therapy is about meeting you where you are. I want to learn about your unique strengths, values, goals, and struggles. I strive to support you in navigating your struggles, and in making choices in alignment with your values as you work toward your goals. I am curious about what brings you fulfillment and exploring avenues to infuse joy into your days, with a strength-based, benefit-enhancement approach. I view therapy as a collaborative process, know that you are the expert on your own experience, and meet each client as the individual you are.
To me, therapy isn’t a workbook or a road map that’s the same for everyone. Therapy is about meeting you where you are. I want to learn about your unique strengths, values, goals, and struggles. I strive to support you in navigating your struggles, and in making choices in alignment with your values as you work toward your goals. I am curious about what brings you fulfillment and exploring avenues to infuse joy into your days, with a strength-based, benefit-enhancement approach. I view therapy as a collaborative process, know that you are the expert on your own experience, and meet each client as the individual you are.
I have current biweekly availability as of 5/21/26. I’m really glad you’re here. Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, self-aware, and reflective—yet often feel disconnected from their emotions, bodies, or sense of self. Therapy with me is an invitation to slow down, notice what’s alive inside you, and turn toward the parts that learned to stay guarded, controlled, or invisible to survive. Together, we create space for curiosity, tenderness, and connection with the deeper, truest parts of who you are—your most authentic self.
I have current biweekly availability as of 5/21/26. I’m really glad you’re here. Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, self-aware, and reflective—yet often feel disconnected from their emotions, bodies, or sense of self. Therapy with me is an invitation to slow down, notice what’s alive inside you, and turn toward the parts that learned to stay guarded, controlled, or invisible to survive. Together, we create space for curiosity, tenderness, and connection with the deeper, truest parts of who you are—your most authentic self.
I work with adolescents, adults, couples and families on a range of things, from family and relationship issues to life transitions, depression and anxiety, grief, larger existential questions, and other things.
I have trained in a variety of modalities including contemporary cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and experiential. I draw heavily on developmental psychology, mindfulness practices, and attachment theory. My background includes work in community mental health clinics, non-profits, psychiatric hospitals, and state programs, as well private practice.
I work with adolescents, adults, couples and families on a range of things, from family and relationship issues to life transitions, depression and anxiety, grief, larger existential questions, and other things.
I have trained in a variety of modalities including contemporary cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, and experiential. I draw heavily on developmental psychology, mindfulness practices, and attachment theory. My background includes work in community mental health clinics, non-profits, psychiatric hospitals, and state programs, as well private practice.
Ash Wolitzer
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW-A
1 Endorsed
Durham, NC 27707
Waitlist for new clients
I support children, teens, young adults and their families in areas related to complex trauma, neurodivergence, identity and more.
I work with clients to weave, unweave, and reweave the ways they hold their past, create presence in their present, and construct achievable goals for the future. My therapeutic approach includes elements of play, storytelling, arts, movement, parts work, dialectics, mindfulness, somatics, and other approaches that work best for each individual client.
I support children, teens, young adults and their families in areas related to complex trauma, neurodivergence, identity and more.
I work with clients to weave, unweave, and reweave the ways they hold their past, create presence in their present, and construct achievable goals for the future. My therapeutic approach includes elements of play, storytelling, arts, movement, parts work, dialectics, mindfulness, somatics, and other approaches that work best for each individual client.
I have over 12 years of helping teens, college students, & adults navigate healthy development & personal development.
We all face rough patches in life from time to time. Whether it's a broken heart, splintered trust, fractured dreams, disintegrated thinking, or just feeling broken, we all face times when we are not sure how to proceed on our journeys. Wherever you are or whatever you are facing I believe you have already taken the biggest step in healing by admitting you need help. As a therapist at Potter Counseling, I would be honored to help you take the next steps in your mental health journey by offering you a listening ear, an open-heart, and the necessary skills and practices to help you move forward.
I have over 12 years of helping teens, college students, & adults navigate healthy development & personal development.
We all face rough patches in life from time to time. Whether it's a broken heart, splintered trust, fractured dreams, disintegrated thinking, or just feeling broken, we all face times when we are not sure how to proceed on our journeys. Wherever you are or whatever you are facing I believe you have already taken the biggest step in healing by admitting you need help. As a therapist at Potter Counseling, I would be honored to help you take the next steps in your mental health journey by offering you a listening ear, an open-heart, and the necessary skills and practices to help you move forward.
Inspiration is the key to successful change and growth. Although problems can have similar origins, we as unique human beings bring to our life a perspective that is different than anyone else. As such it is important that our uniqueness is valued and respected. In helping clients with their various issues, this is the cornerstone of my approach. I see my role as a mirror, helping you to craft a plan to get from where you are currently to where you want to be based on your value system. Remember, change starts from within.
Inspiration is the key to successful change and growth. Although problems can have similar origins, we as unique human beings bring to our life a perspective that is different than anyone else. As such it is important that our uniqueness is valued and respected. In helping clients with their various issues, this is the cornerstone of my approach. I see my role as a mirror, helping you to craft a plan to get from where you are currently to where you want to be based on your value system. Remember, change starts from within.
Hi, my name is Daniel and I am a licensed therapist. I see my role as a guide, helping people navigating life and in the search for meaning. I've been practicing for around 10 years working with a variety of different people and challenges treating anxiety, depression, substance use, trauma/abuse, life transitions, finding meaning, loss, and more. I offer a safe and respectful place to explore the feelings and situations you're going through while encouraging effective life changes. Thank you for considering working with me!
Hi, my name is Daniel and I am a licensed therapist. I see my role as a guide, helping people navigating life and in the search for meaning. I've been practicing for around 10 years working with a variety of different people and challenges treating anxiety, depression, substance use, trauma/abuse, life transitions, finding meaning, loss, and more. I offer a safe and respectful place to explore the feelings and situations you're going through while encouraging effective life changes. Thank you for considering working with me!
We offer individual counseling, psychiatry/medication management (virtual only), family counseling, couples therapy/marriage counseling, and child & teen therapy.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
We offer individual counseling, psychiatry/medication management (virtual only), family counseling, couples therapy/marriage counseling, and child & teen therapy.
At Thriveworks, we're dedicated to providing top-tier mental health services that are easily accessible to everyone. With over 340 locations nationwide and flexible online therapy options, our professional therapists are equipped to assist you through any stress, life transitions, or ongoing mental health concerns. We prioritize your convenience and needs by offering flexible scheduling, including evening and weekend appointments, ensuring that you can start your therapy journey as early as this week. Plus, we accept most major insurance plans, making your path to mental health support smoother and more affordable.
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