Women's Issues Therapists in Newland, NC
Are you struggling with depression or anxiety? Are you having difficulty bouncing back after a traumatic experience? Are you having difficulties in a relationship? I can help! I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience providing trauma-informed services to children, adults, families, and couples. Areas of specialization include: anxiety and mood disorders, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, grief and loss, child/adolescent behavior problems, adjustment and phase of life issues, and interpersonal relationship problems.
Are you struggling with depression or anxiety? Are you having difficulty bouncing back after a traumatic experience? Are you having difficulties in a relationship? I can help! I am a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience providing trauma-informed services to children, adults, families, and couples. Areas of specialization include: anxiety and mood disorders, PTSD, borderline personality disorder, grief and loss, child/adolescent behavior problems, adjustment and phase of life issues, and interpersonal relationship problems.
The bulk of my practice has been in community mental health where I have worked with adults, youth, and families. I also interned at a local domestic violence center and as a chaplain and what I have learned is that almost everyone has been touched by trauma in some way and that we all struggle at times - to resolve conflict, to adjust to life changes, to fully understand ourselves and those around us, to achieve our goals. Whether you have experienced significant challenges in life or simply need a listening ear, my goal is to create a safe environment where you can find the support you need to make the progress you desire.
The bulk of my practice has been in community mental health where I have worked with adults, youth, and families. I also interned at a local domestic violence center and as a chaplain and what I have learned is that almost everyone has been touched by trauma in some way and that we all struggle at times - to resolve conflict, to adjust to life changes, to fully understand ourselves and those around us, to achieve our goals. Whether you have experienced significant challenges in life or simply need a listening ear, my goal is to create a safe environment where you can find the support you need to make the progress you desire.
Better Days and Nights, PLLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCMHC, LCSW, LCMHCA, LCSWA
Serves Area
We are a group practice, we take many different insurances, and file your claims for you. Our therapists will work with you to help find understanding, a solution or a change for you or your situation. Counseling/Therapy is based on you and your situation alone. Everyone is different and everyone's situation is different, so we will create an individual plan for you and your specific concerns. There is no use of a template or generalized formula. The therapeutic formula we decide on will come from you and your concerns. The counseling experience will be unique to you and your situation.
We are a group practice, we take many different insurances, and file your claims for you. Our therapists will work with you to help find understanding, a solution or a change for you or your situation. Counseling/Therapy is based on you and your situation alone. Everyone is different and everyone's situation is different, so we will create an individual plan for you and your specific concerns. There is no use of a template or generalized formula. The therapeutic formula we decide on will come from you and your concerns. The counseling experience will be unique to you and your situation.
My professional experience has been working with adolescents, college students, adults, working on various issues, and wanting someone to help them in the journey. No one lives life without going through something that makes them question whether they can work through it on their own. This is the very place God has for us to come to him and his strength. I have personally experienced a few of these, and have been given a calling for helping others in theirs. My practice aims to shine light on the purpose we have on this earth, and walking with you to uncover the roots of why you struggle.
My professional experience has been working with adolescents, college students, adults, working on various issues, and wanting someone to help them in the journey. No one lives life without going through something that makes them question whether they can work through it on their own. This is the very place God has for us to come to him and his strength. I have personally experienced a few of these, and have been given a calling for helping others in theirs. My practice aims to shine light on the purpose we have on this earth, and walking with you to uncover the roots of why you struggle.
Welcome! I see adults at the individual level and some of my specialties include Trauma, ADHD/Autism, anxiety, religious deconstruction, and working though some good ole crippling existential dread. I work well with clients who have hit a wall with talk therapy and want to go deeper and shift things talk therapy couldn’t. When I asked my clients what they liked most about me some of the things they said were they like that I am a safe person who is easy to connect with, I laugh and joke a lot, genuinely care about them, and actually use tools to help them in a way others did not.
Welcome! I see adults at the individual level and some of my specialties include Trauma, ADHD/Autism, anxiety, religious deconstruction, and working though some good ole crippling existential dread. I work well with clients who have hit a wall with talk therapy and want to go deeper and shift things talk therapy couldn’t. When I asked my clients what they liked most about me some of the things they said were they like that I am a safe person who is easy to connect with, I laugh and joke a lot, genuinely care about them, and actually use tools to help them in a way others did not.
Do you have something on your mind? There are times when we all have thoughts running through our minds. Thoughts related to family, friends, relationships, school, love, spirituality, money, work, or happiness. Sometimes they are memories from your past that you're unable to let go. Maybe you can't sleep, maybe you can't eat. Maybe you have lost your purpose, who you are, what you're doing or why. It could be big, or just a small thing you want to let go. These situations can slow you down and pull your life to a stop.
Do you have something on your mind? There are times when we all have thoughts running through our minds. Thoughts related to family, friends, relationships, school, love, spirituality, money, work, or happiness. Sometimes they are memories from your past that you're unable to let go. Maybe you can't sleep, maybe you can't eat. Maybe you have lost your purpose, who you are, what you're doing or why. It could be big, or just a small thing you want to let go. These situations can slow you down and pull your life to a stop.
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If you are struggling with a difficult season of life, need to make important decisions, or want to grow and change, establishing a therapeutic relationship can help. Through interactive counseling sessions, you can process thoughts and feelings that are hindering your quality of life. Be encouraged and believe that even in the darkest situations, restoration can occur. You are not your problems. You are a person who matters that can live with meaning and purpose.
If you are struggling with a difficult season of life, need to make important decisions, or want to grow and change, establishing a therapeutic relationship can help. Through interactive counseling sessions, you can process thoughts and feelings that are hindering your quality of life. Be encouraged and believe that even in the darkest situations, restoration can occur. You are not your problems. You are a person who matters that can live with meaning and purpose.
So often, life can feel overwhelming. You may be navigating big transitions, trying to be a good parent or partner, or feeling the pressure to hold everything together - while inside you feel like you’re barely managing. These struggles can feel lonely, but you don’t have to go through them alone. Therapy provides a supportive space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and gain clarity and insight into your experiences.
So often, life can feel overwhelming. You may be navigating big transitions, trying to be a good parent or partner, or feeling the pressure to hold everything together - while inside you feel like you’re barely managing. These struggles can feel lonely, but you don’t have to go through them alone. Therapy provides a supportive space to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and gain clarity and insight into your experiences.
Jacqueline Martinez
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
Waitlist for new clients
I’m the owner and Clinical Director of Riverstone Counseling and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in trauma recovery for both military and civilian clients. With a neuroscience background, I take a neuro‑informed approach grounded in Cognitive Processing Therapy, shaped by my experience in the military. My work centers on helping clients understand how trauma reshapes beliefs, identity, the nervous system, and how those patterns can be rewritten. I’m especially passionate about supporting women through grief, infertility, and complex women’s health journeys.
I’m the owner and Clinical Director of Riverstone Counseling and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in trauma recovery for both military and civilian clients. With a neuroscience background, I take a neuro‑informed approach grounded in Cognitive Processing Therapy, shaped by my experience in the military. My work centers on helping clients understand how trauma reshapes beliefs, identity, the nervous system, and how those patterns can be rewritten. I’m especially passionate about supporting women through grief, infertility, and complex women’s health journeys.
I strive to create a space where you can show up exactly as you are — no judgment, no pressure, no need to have it all figured out. Therapy works best when you feel safe, understood, and genuinely supported, and building that kind of relationship is at the heart of my work.
As a deeply empathic and highly sensitive person, I bring warmth, curiosity, and attunement into our sessions. My approach is client-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and integrative — which means we focus on what fits you. Together, we’ll move at a pace that feels respectful and grounded while working toward meaningful, lasting change.
I strive to create a space where you can show up exactly as you are — no judgment, no pressure, no need to have it all figured out. Therapy works best when you feel safe, understood, and genuinely supported, and building that kind of relationship is at the heart of my work.
As a deeply empathic and highly sensitive person, I bring warmth, curiosity, and attunement into our sessions. My approach is client-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and integrative — which means we focus on what fits you. Together, we’ll move at a pace that feels respectful and grounded while working toward meaningful, lasting change.
Accepting New Telehealth Clients in North Carolina & South Carolina!
Life can feel overwhelming when anxiety, stress, grief, relationship struggles, or major life changes begin to pile up. For more than 30 years, I've helped adults navigate life's unexpected transitions with greater clarity and hope. Many of my clients come to therapy because something has changed—a relationship, career, family, health, or season of life—and they're asking, "Where do I go from here?" Therapy offers a place to slow down, find perspective, and begin moving forward again.
Accepting New Telehealth Clients in North Carolina & South Carolina!
Life can feel overwhelming when anxiety, stress, grief, relationship struggles, or major life changes begin to pile up. For more than 30 years, I've helped adults navigate life's unexpected transitions with greater clarity and hope. Many of my clients come to therapy because something has changed—a relationship, career, family, health, or season of life—and they're asking, "Where do I go from here?" Therapy offers a place to slow down, find perspective, and begin moving forward again.
I am licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vermont (online only for SC and VT clients). I specialize in counseling with women who are experiencing anxiety, body image issues, religious trauma, pregnancy/postpartum mental health concerns, depression, life transitions, and relationship concerns. I have more than 17 years of experience in the mental health field in a variety of counseling settings including inpatient and outpatient agencies, a university counseling center, public school systems, non-profits, and now in my private practice.
I am licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Vermont (online only for SC and VT clients). I specialize in counseling with women who are experiencing anxiety, body image issues, religious trauma, pregnancy/postpartum mental health concerns, depression, life transitions, and relationship concerns. I have more than 17 years of experience in the mental health field in a variety of counseling settings including inpatient and outpatient agencies, a university counseling center, public school systems, non-profits, and now in my private practice.
Some people spend so much of their lives caring for others that they forget they deserve support, too. Whether you're a first responder carrying the weight of difficult calls, a woman navigating pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, or menopause, or someone balancing the demands of a high-stress career with your relationships and personal well-being, therapy can be a place where you no longer have to carry it all alone.
Some people spend so much of their lives caring for others that they forget they deserve support, too. Whether you're a first responder carrying the weight of difficult calls, a woman navigating pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, or menopause, or someone balancing the demands of a high-stress career with your relationships and personal well-being, therapy can be a place where you no longer have to carry it all alone.
Meaghan Dolan
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, MA, LCMHC-S
Boone, NC 28607
Waitlist for new clients
Your story is important. I offer a warm therapeutic relationship for clients to trust their voice, reconnect with their joy and make meaning of their experiences, I specialize in working with young adults, non binary folx and women of all ages who experience anxiety, shame, trauma, and difficulty in their relationships. I often work with clients who have experienced complex trauma and are (re)learning how to listen to their own knowing. Healing is courageous work. I help clients practice self-compassion and carry hope. Together we will celebrate your strengths and increase your confidence in navigating life’s challenges.
Your story is important. I offer a warm therapeutic relationship for clients to trust their voice, reconnect with their joy and make meaning of their experiences, I specialize in working with young adults, non binary folx and women of all ages who experience anxiety, shame, trauma, and difficulty in their relationships. I often work with clients who have experienced complex trauma and are (re)learning how to listen to their own knowing. Healing is courageous work. I help clients practice self-compassion and carry hope. Together we will celebrate your strengths and increase your confidence in navigating life’s challenges.
Throughout our lives we will face challenges where we do not know how to move forward, we might feel stuck or abandoned, lost or overwhelmed. My approach to counseling is a collaborative process. It is one of conversation, exploration, uncovering, and understanding. I believe that the key to a successful counseling experience is built from our sense of connectedness, mutual respect, trust, and honesty - not only with each other but with ourselves. I trust that you have the ability to create and enact the changes that you want and need in your life and I am here to process that self-discovery & unfolding with you.
Throughout our lives we will face challenges where we do not know how to move forward, we might feel stuck or abandoned, lost or overwhelmed. My approach to counseling is a collaborative process. It is one of conversation, exploration, uncovering, and understanding. I believe that the key to a successful counseling experience is built from our sense of connectedness, mutual respect, trust, and honesty - not only with each other but with ourselves. I trust that you have the ability to create and enact the changes that you want and need in your life and I am here to process that self-discovery & unfolding with you.
Join me in learning the tools and skills to intentionally create the life that you desire. I work with clients who are looking to strengthen trust in themselves. My overarching goal for every client who comes to see me is for them to have a more loving, compassionate relationship to themselves, others, and their past. I use a collaborative approach to counseling that recognizes our unique multidimensional nature, and honors the connection between mind, emotions, energy, and body. I specialize in Brainspotting, Parts work/IFS, and Gottman Method for couples.
Join me in learning the tools and skills to intentionally create the life that you desire. I work with clients who are looking to strengthen trust in themselves. My overarching goal for every client who comes to see me is for them to have a more loving, compassionate relationship to themselves, others, and their past. I use a collaborative approach to counseling that recognizes our unique multidimensional nature, and honors the connection between mind, emotions, energy, and body. I specialize in Brainspotting, Parts work/IFS, and Gottman Method for couples.
Many of my clients are deeply empathetic people who’ve spent years being everything for everyone else. I help them shift from guilt to clarity, from burnout to boundaries, and from over-functioning to alignment. Together we explore the patterns that have kept you stuck, so you can start making choices that reflect your needs and values, not everyone else’s.
Many of my clients are deeply empathetic people who’ve spent years being everything for everyone else. I help them shift from guilt to clarity, from burnout to boundaries, and from over-functioning to alignment. Together we explore the patterns that have kept you stuck, so you can start making choices that reflect your needs and values, not everyone else’s.
Intrusive thoughts, overwhelming feelings, a never-ending sense of never doing or being enough. You feel stuck and you can't seem to get free of this nagging sense of inadequacy, loneliness, and longing to be perfect. The pain is so unbearable, you work harder and longer and hustle more to prove your worth and then get swallowed in soul sucking shame for being so powerless to change. It's hard to stay present, you're stuck in your head and you've tried everything to feel better. It hurts and you can't find your way out.
Intrusive thoughts, overwhelming feelings, a never-ending sense of never doing or being enough. You feel stuck and you can't seem to get free of this nagging sense of inadequacy, loneliness, and longing to be perfect. The pain is so unbearable, you work harder and longer and hustle more to prove your worth and then get swallowed in soul sucking shame for being so powerless to change. It's hard to stay present, you're stuck in your head and you've tried everything to feel better. It hurts and you can't find your way out.
I believe in the quiet brilliance that lives within everyone. A light that may flicker beneath exhaustion, doubt, or the weight of being everything to everyone, but never entirely goes out. You are the steady one, the go-to, the fixer of things. Yet in still moments, the whisper comes:
"What if they find out I’m barely holding on?" Here, you are invited to lay it all down.
To exhale.
To listen inward, my mission is to help you return to your own knowing. The fierce, intuitive, radiant self that may have been buried beneath roles, expectations, and the noise of the world.
I believe in the quiet brilliance that lives within everyone. A light that may flicker beneath exhaustion, doubt, or the weight of being everything to everyone, but never entirely goes out. You are the steady one, the go-to, the fixer of things. Yet in still moments, the whisper comes:
"What if they find out I’m barely holding on?" Here, you are invited to lay it all down.
To exhale.
To listen inward, my mission is to help you return to your own knowing. The fierce, intuitive, radiant self that may have been buried beneath roles, expectations, and the noise of the world.
Tammy Virginia Shingleton
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, MA, LCMHC, QS
Morganton, NC 28655
Throughout my life I have become so aware of the importance of having someone who will listen, someone who will offer compassion without judgment. Throughout my career I have strived to place that understanding in focus as I worked with individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and the lifelong pains of trauma.
Throughout my life I have become so aware of the importance of having someone who will listen, someone who will offer compassion without judgment. Throughout my career I have strived to place that understanding in focus as I worked with individuals struggling with depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and the lifelong pains of trauma.
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Women's Issues Therapists
How do you encourage a woman to go to therapy?
It’s helpful to express concern and love for the person while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Offering specific examples of how an individual may be suffering, and what effects it has on them, should be done with compassion and with empathy. It may be useful to devise a game plan—breaking the process down into parts, such as finding a therapist, making appointments, and looking into insurance coverage.
How can women prepare for therapy?
Women can prepare for therapy by being willing to talk about their past experiences and their private thoughts. Before a session, an individual may want to reflect on how they’ve felt since the last session and what’s happened in their lives. Between sessions, it can be useful to write down notes about their reaction to a given event or how they felt at a particular time.
How long does therapy for women’s issues often last?
As with any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual and the challenges they face. Therapy types like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Prolonged exposure therapy (PET), and Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) can be brief, most often ranging from between 5 and 20 sessions. In some cases, such as for women with eating disorders, residential treatment may be recommended for an individual who is judged to be at high risk of self-harm. For any therapy, the duration will depend on the progress made and results realized.
How can women overcome stigma around specific challenges in order to seek therapy?
Women dealing with domestic abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, and any other number of troubles may feel a stigma around seeking help. It’s important to remember that these issues are not uncommon and there is no shame in getting help for them. Therapy is confidential, and women can talk about their experiences without fear of judgment. Seeking therapy can be a courageous and liberating act, and an important step toward healing and recovery.