Couples Counseling Therapists in Hendersonville, NC

Life can be such a challenge especially if we find ourselves walking our path alone. On this journey, my hope is to help guide and provide skill training that will help you increase confidence, self-worth, and self-empowerment. Sometimes things happen that are out of our control and we just want to make sense of it all or best manage our emotions.

Counseling is such meaningful and rewarding work and I am so grateful that I get to do it. My goal is to always be growing as a person right alongside you and to always approach my work with a sense of openness and curiosity rather than judgment. After all, we’re just two humans talking about being human. My hope is that you can learn to further embrace your humanness and leave behind your shame in the process. While talk therapy can be extremely valuable, I recognize that there are some problems that conventional talk therapy can’t quite reach, which is why I typically use a more experiential, trauma-focused approach to counseling.

Damaris works as an outpatient/school-based counselor providing services to both children and adults in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language (ASL). Damaris loves to listen to people and guide them to identify and build their strengths on what they truly love. Some of the issues she currently addresses include understanding and managing anxiety, defiant behaviors, bipolar disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as navigating new mental health and physical health diagnosis, grief or divorce.

Have you ever felt that regular therapy has not worked for you?… Looking for something different? Over the past two decades I have developed a system using meditation & interactive play biofeedback combined with 1) introspective psychodynamic questioning, 2) CBT scaffolding using emotions as important information in guidance for action, and 3) a positive solution-focused approach to help you address your personal lifestyle and relationship goals. Over the course of 8 sessions you can learn this technique to apply to your current & future challenges. You will be provided a step-by-step guidance manual as a blueprint for action.

Depression, anxiety, fear and grief are some of the most common and uncomfortable emotions that we experience in life. Some of us have endured stress, loss or trauma that sets us up for emotional challenges; others have inherited differences that make coping with life more difficult. There are lots of reasons why so many of us find ourselves needing mental health support. Counseling can help you learn how to overcome symptoms, experience relief, restore relationships and maintain recovery. Through evidence-based, individualized treatment, we will work together to recover inner peace, instill hope and open a path to joy.

Life can present challenges, some we live with every day, and others seem to come out of nowhere. Maybe life doesn't follow along a path we've spent years creating and working toward. The business of living can begin to feel like a grind, and simple tasks may create exhaustion, fear, and uncertainty. Unresolved and painful childhood memories seem to revisit out of nowhere, and even though you've worked and wished, or prayed about the pain, the pain lingers. We often resign ourselves to perceiving life as a chore instead of a joyful experience, which can lead to a lack of fulfillment and even chronic illness.

Intrusive thoughts? Feelings of dread? Relationship issues or communication challenges? Trauma, anxiety, attachment wounds, & other mental health challenges all have a way of coming out in areas where we don’t want them. Therapy can help by providing a safe space to process everything from daily stressors to deeply traumatic events, break generational patterns, & learn healthy coping skills along the way. In my practice I believe in a person-centered approach putting you in control while using an eclectic mix of CBT, DBT, EMDR, & psychodynamic therapy; all from an attachment and trauma informed lens.

I offer in-depth, insight oriented and compassionate psychotherapy to individuals, couples , and groups and have been involved in the counseling and mental health field since 1990. My goal is to provide treatment designed to help individuals to identify negative or self-sabotaging thinking patterns and behavior, and to develop healthier, more fulfilling relationships and an enhanced quality of life.