Couples Counseling Therapists in Durham, NC

I am a Marriage and Family Therapist with a heart for the lost and hurting. I specialize in helping Adolescents, Adults and their families navigate the challenges of Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar disorder, panic disorder, family stress, overwhelming academic pressures, low self-esteem, racial, sexuality, and gender issues (LGBTQ+). I help people of all ages take charge of their mental health symptoms and navigate the challenges of life. I help people find their way back to happy, guide them in healing their broken hearts, and above all honor who my clients are and the abilities they have, to live the lives they desire.

Feeling hopeless? Avoiding your partner ? Pretending everything is fine? I specialize in couples counseling , sex therapy, partnership therapy, and individual counseling. I help partners work through conflict and relational patterns in order to increase intimacy and trust. I help individuals work through depression, anxiety, and life transitions. Whether you need depression support, help getting out of a relationship crisis, navigating a divorce, or just working on your partnership early, therapy is worth the investment.

Danielle's mission in life is Order, Service & Accountability. The ideal partner (client) for her counseling, coaching or consulting services range from adults struggling in their family and/or social relationships to couples deciding to commit or to sever ties. These adults may have underlying social/emotional areas of growth (illnesses) hindering their progress in personal or professional goals.

I have a passion for working with distressed couples & families, and adults recovering from past traumas. I work from an humanistic relational approach to therapy, integrating concepts and techniques from my extensive training and supervision in various client-centered approaches, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (Certified) and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (Level III). For over 20 years, I have helped adult couples , families and individuals increase respect, intimacy and trust in their romantic, familial, peer and professional relationships, and helped people heal from past traumas.

Accepting New Clients! You give so much of yourself, yet still feel like you're falling short of expectations. That unconventional perspective of yours has fueled your creativity, but you worry that people don’t really “get” you. It doesn’t help that you have anxiety in social situations. Even your closest relationship feels increasingly tense and disconnected. These are challenging things to deal with alone. I want to help you find your way to calm, balance, and connection.

I offer clients a collaborative approach to address whatever may have brought them to my door. My relationally focused psychodynamic style supports the idea that healing occurs through our connection with others. By providing a safe and solid therapeutic relationship to a person, that person begins to experience a greater range of perspective regarding their own life and the lives around them. With increased self-awareness, individuals are able to recognize that they have more choices in their lives. I have found this to be true regardless of what obstacles a person may be facing.

I am passionate about serving others by integrating the best mental health practices and spiritual care for the soul. I am a Licensed Counselor, Licensed Substance Abuse Counselor and a Minister. I provide services to individuals, couples , and families across the Triangle, as well as; through HIPPA-secure tele-therapy. I have a broad range of specialties to address mental health concerns, life transitions, relationship issues, and career choices. In addition, I am trained to integrate clinical counseling and theology: combining research-based psychology with a Christian perspective of human suffering, hope, and redemptive love .

Are you feeling dis-empowered, disconnected? Looking to make healthy, positive, long-lasting changes to ensure wholeness and live a satisfying life? Are you trying to make changes at work, in your relationship , or with your finances or health, and you just can't get traction? You understand the problem, but you can't make the change stick. You may be going through a divorce or are worried about your child in a divorce; feeling signs of stress, depression and anxiety. Maybe you’ve gotten through to the other side, and you are trying to rebuild and promote healing. You need individualized care for your unique challenges.

Many of my clients relate to the experience of feeling "othered", different or as existing outside of culturally-constructed margins. In our increasingly isolationist world, feeling different or other is becoming a common experience. While many things may remind us of our difference, or "non-normativity", in therapy I aim to collaboratively uncover and identify the worth and purpose that I believe exist in all humxn beings. I believe that all concerns, struggles, challenges, curiosities and explorations brought to therapy are related to relationships--the relationship we have with ourselves and other people. Often, clients express a need for deep connection and goals involve enhancing relationships, identifying emotions, coping more effectively with emotions, and nourishing self-worth and confidence. Research on therapeutic effectiveness has repeatedly demonstrated that therapeutic relationship is the principle determinant of positive therapeutic outcome. Thus, when I first meet clients, client-therapist relationship and chemistry is the primary emphasis and catalyst for change.

We enjoy working with clients who seek to engage their spiritual questions and challenges in the midst of the therapeutic journey. Our clients come from a variety of life histories and family backgrounds, but share in common a desire to discover a more hopeful perspective on life, while exercising specific skills and practices to make hope concrete on a daily basis. Our therapists are accustomed to mutual collaboration to serve the needs of children, adolescents, and their families in one setting.

I want to help you and your relationships grow and heal. I believe that you are the expert on your own life, and that a strong relationship between us as client and therapist is the foundation for true growth. Together, we can examine patterns in your life in a way that fosters greater self-understanding and mental health. I specialize in working with issues relating to depression, anxiety, and relationship challenges. I work with both individuals and couples .

Accepting New Clients - Change starts at the end of your comfort zone. I see the courage it takes to change and I would love to help you on your journey of self-discovery. Change may look like processing difficult emotions and unearthing unhelpful patterns to finding your authentic self and learning new coping strategies. In working together, we can create meaningful change. I specialize in helping folks navigate life challenges including, anxiety, disordered eating, trauma/grief, and relationship concerns. I also enjoy supporting individuals who are navigating life transitions and exploring new facets of their identity.

We are all on a journey. Sometimes our path presents us with challenges that we find difficult to overcome without help. Do you feel stuck? Need to better understand negative patterns in your life? Are you having difficulty with an important relationship ? The relationship you form with a therapist can help you navigate your path with strategies and tools to overcome life’s challenges. My focus, in therapy, is to help you expand and strengthen your resources by learning effective coping strategies. I work with adults and adolescents struggling with transitions, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, anger and relationship problems.

I enjoy working with people who love a challenge and want to learn and grow together. Change, similar to life, can feel like it is not for the faint of heart and sometimes we learn maladaptive ways of coping that are no longer serving us. Together we navigate substance use, relationship issues, life transitions, identity development, codependency, and anything else you want to work through. I am here to gently push you while being supportive to your needs in a genuine authentic space. I will encourage you to be a person who is here to take up all the space you deserve.

As a licensed clinical mental health counselor, I offer telehealth sessions for adolescents, families, and adults. For children under 13, I offer parenting support, consultation, and parent-child sessions. I assist clients with a variety of presenting issues, including anxiety, depression, neurodivergence (Giftedness/LD/ADHD/2e), relationship problems, and identity development. My extensive training includes a variety of therapeutic approaches, such as psychodynamic, attachment-based, Internal Family Systems, cognitive behavioral therapy, and solution-focused. I also provide ADHD and executive functioning skills coaching.

I enjoy working with individuals who are seeking lasting healing and therapeutic change. You may be experiencing depression, anxiety, or overwhelm that is signaling the need for a different way of living and approaching your life. You may have past trauma and need a safe space to work through this. Old patterns, wounding and trauma live in our bodies and show up in many ways including in relationships, feelings, thoughts, beliefs & body sensations. We will work together to heal and integrate these through a therapeutic approach that is relational, embodied, spirit-oriented and attentive to the culture and larger systems we live in.

Accepting new clients as of 06/01/23. As a psychotherapist, I work with adults who want to live a better, more meaningful life that isn’t dominated by suffering. In my work, my role is to help individuals tap into their inner wisdom and vitality during sessions to live better lives outside of session. I work with individuals to address issues including mood and anxiety, relationship struggles, substance use, life transitions, gender and sexuality, complex trauma, and identity exploration. I believe that we all struggle to deal with various types of pain, but with help, it is possible to live a liberated life.