Emotionally Focused Therapists in Orange County, NC
I have concentrated training in the Satir Model, Emotionally Focused Couples & Individual Therapy Model, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Integration.
I have room for a few new clients this summer. Please reach out through my website- - - - I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist serving the Chapel Hill, Durham and surrounding areas. I have 20 years experience working with adolescents, adults and families. My work includes a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach. We will explore your relationships, environment, recent life events and stressors to gain perspective of how you are affected emotionally, physically and spiritually.
I have concentrated training in the Satir Model, Emotionally Focused Couples & Individual Therapy Model, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Integration.
I have room for a few new clients this summer. Please reach out through my website- - - - I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist serving the Chapel Hill, Durham and surrounding areas. I have 20 years experience working with adolescents, adults and families. My work includes a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach. We will explore your relationships, environment, recent life events and stressors to gain perspective of how you are affected emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Now offering 90 minute couple sessions. I am an experienced, licensed marriage and family therapist working with couples, individuals and children. I can help put your history in its rightful place and create a healthy narrative that will allow you to flourish. Let's partner to gain insight on potential blockers and craft practical solutions to move you past them, creating harmony in your relationships. Call today to schedule a free 30 minute meet & greet.
Now offering 90 minute couple sessions. I am an experienced, licensed marriage and family therapist working with couples, individuals and children. I can help put your history in its rightful place and create a healthy narrative that will allow you to flourish. Let's partner to gain insight on potential blockers and craft practical solutions to move you past them, creating harmony in your relationships. Call today to schedule a free 30 minute meet & greet.
My ideal client is one who wants relief from stress, anxiety, guilt and/or shame, trauma, or chronic pain, but has not been able to achieve this. Typically, I can help people realize lasting desired change efficiently and effectively. Also, I have had great success helping people with phobias and fears and those who want improved relationships. My first goal is to do no harm. My second goal is to help clients realize desired goals while respecting and preserving what is already working in their lives.
My ideal client is one who wants relief from stress, anxiety, guilt and/or shame, trauma, or chronic pain, but has not been able to achieve this. Typically, I can help people realize lasting desired change efficiently and effectively. Also, I have had great success helping people with phobias and fears and those who want improved relationships. My first goal is to do no harm. My second goal is to help clients realize desired goals while respecting and preserving what is already working in their lives.
Hailey Morris
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, CRC
8 Endorsed
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
You’re ready for real change, not just small insights that fade after a few weeks. You’ve tried traditional weekly therapy, but it feels like you only ever scratch the surface. You’re tired of feeling “stuck,” weighed down by anxiety or past trauma that keeps replaying no matter how much you work on yourself. You want relief that lasts and to feel confident, grounded, and free again. You're ready to move beyond coping and into deep, lasting healing.
You’re ready for real change, not just small insights that fade after a few weeks. You’ve tried traditional weekly therapy, but it feels like you only ever scratch the surface. You’re tired of feeling “stuck,” weighed down by anxiety or past trauma that keeps replaying no matter how much you work on yourself. You want relief that lasts and to feel confident, grounded, and free again. You're ready to move beyond coping and into deep, lasting healing.
I'm so happy you found me. My name is Daja and I am a licensed psychotherapist with nearly 10 years of experience proving care to folks in my community. I work with people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, and general overwhelm. I also have experience with community members living with racial trauma and combatting shame and stigma associated with accessing mental health care. I excel in my work with couples and families and pull from my professional experiences of working with school systems, home based family therapy, and adult protective services. Burnt out and a part of the sandwich generation, I'm looking at you!
I'm so happy you found me. My name is Daja and I am a licensed psychotherapist with nearly 10 years of experience proving care to folks in my community. I work with people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, and general overwhelm. I also have experience with community members living with racial trauma and combatting shame and stigma associated with accessing mental health care. I excel in my work with couples and families and pull from my professional experiences of working with school systems, home based family therapy, and adult protective services. Burnt out and a part of the sandwich generation, I'm looking at you!
Victoria Fahnestock
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
1 Endorsed
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Waitlist for new clients
I aim to help you “grow through what you go through.” Driven by unwavering compassion and empathy, I strive to build a strong therapeutic alliance together in order to tackle your identified unique challenges and build upon your personal goals. Through building a strengths-based and individual-centered foundation in holistic therapy, I believe in promoting a safe, trusting, and non-judgmental environment that encourages you to find and become the best version of yourself. I strive to select therapeutic approaches that best fit your specific needs and goals.
I aim to help you “grow through what you go through.” Driven by unwavering compassion and empathy, I strive to build a strong therapeutic alliance together in order to tackle your identified unique challenges and build upon your personal goals. Through building a strengths-based and individual-centered foundation in holistic therapy, I believe in promoting a safe, trusting, and non-judgmental environment that encourages you to find and become the best version of yourself. I strive to select therapeutic approaches that best fit your specific needs and goals.
Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Chapel Hill
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
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.
Popular approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR, Christian Counseling, PCT, Motivational Interviewing, EFT, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic therapy, Relational therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.
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.
As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and National Certified Counselor (NCC), my focus is on helping adolescents, adults, couples, and families navigate anxiety, depression, stress, adjustment concerns, and relationship challenges. I support clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps, offering care that is grounded, practical, and compassionate. My experience spans school settings, community mental health, Medicaid-funded services, and private practice, allowing me to adapt care to a wide range of needs and life circumstances.
As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) and National Certified Counselor (NCC), my focus is on helping adolescents, adults, couples, and families navigate anxiety, depression, stress, adjustment concerns, and relationship challenges. I support clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps, offering care that is grounded, practical, and compassionate. My experience spans school settings, community mental health, Medicaid-funded services, and private practice, allowing me to adapt care to a wide range of needs and life circumstances.
I also have extensive training in emotionally focused therapy for couples, the most empirically-validated couples therapy of the past 25 years.
I feel privileged to help clients become more connected with themselves and others, experience symptom reduction, and develop more satisfying relationships. A caring, understanding, and empathetic therapeutic relationship is the foundation of my work with clients, and I am proud that past clients have expressed feeling safe, cared for, and accepted when working with me. I have extensive experience working with clients who have or are currently experiencing, anxiety, depression, relationship distress, loneliness, trauma, academic or career distress, identity development, and/or difficult life transitions.
I also have extensive training in emotionally focused therapy for couples, the most empirically-validated couples therapy of the past 25 years.
I feel privileged to help clients become more connected with themselves and others, experience symptom reduction, and develop more satisfying relationships. A caring, understanding, and empathetic therapeutic relationship is the foundation of my work with clients, and I am proud that past clients have expressed feeling safe, cared for, and accepted when working with me. I have extensive experience working with clients who have or are currently experiencing, anxiety, depression, relationship distress, loneliness, trauma, academic or career distress, identity development, and/or difficult life transitions.
LCSW, Accredited Life Coach, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), Safe and Sound Protocol Practitioner (SSP), Advanced EFT Practitioner
Hello! Accepting "remote clients" currently. I'm a trauma specialist with expertise in attachment and developmental trauma. Many clients come to me carrying the imprint of early family experiences that affect how they feel, relate, and cope. Using Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and a specialized integrative formula I've developed, I help clients resolve old patterns, reclaim safety, connection, and self-trust, and create lasting healing.
LCSW, Accredited Life Coach, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), Safe and Sound Protocol Practitioner (SSP), Advanced EFT Practitioner
Hello! Accepting "remote clients" currently. I'm a trauma specialist with expertise in attachment and developmental trauma. Many clients come to me carrying the imprint of early family experiences that affect how they feel, relate, and cope. Using Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, and a specialized integrative formula I've developed, I help clients resolve old patterns, reclaim safety, connection, and self-trust, and create lasting healing.
I work with individuals and couples using interpersonal approaches and Emotionally Focused Therapy ( EFT).
I help young adults, adults, and couples navigate anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Using interpersonal approaches and Emotionally Focused Therapy ( EFT), I support individuals and couples in improving communication, strengthening emotional connection, and understanding patterns shaped by attachment and family dynamics.
I work with individuals and couples using interpersonal approaches and Emotionally Focused Therapy ( EFT).
I help young adults, adults, and couples navigate anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Using interpersonal approaches and Emotionally Focused Therapy ( EFT), I support individuals and couples in improving communication, strengthening emotional connection, and understanding patterns shaped by attachment and family dynamics.
Lysandra Penn-Bartoo
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
2 Endorsed
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Waitlist for new clients
Whether you're going through a difficult time at this moment or if you've been feeling this way for awhile, I can offer support and positive coping mechanisms for the stressors you're experiencing. I empower clients to have the capability to use self-compassion and combat damaging thinking and behavioral patterns using evidence-based therapeutic modalities. Every client is unique and I like to employ an individualized, emotionally-centered approach that implements humor, support, and warmth.
Whether you're going through a difficult time at this moment or if you've been feeling this way for awhile, I can offer support and positive coping mechanisms for the stressors you're experiencing. I empower clients to have the capability to use self-compassion and combat damaging thinking and behavioral patterns using evidence-based therapeutic modalities. Every client is unique and I like to employ an individualized, emotionally-centered approach that implements humor, support, and warmth.
Are you looking for a safe place to discuss what matters most to you? Family, work, relationships, health, transitions, grief, loss, children, trauma, life purpose, letting go of past hurts. I love assisting individuals and couples with relationship skills, communication issues, changing self defeating patterns, healing pain (physical and emotional), and learning to be one's best self across settings. I work with children and families in our ever changing world to improve relationships, performance, self awareness, mood, behavior. I bring my many years of experience working with young and old alike to this passionate pursuit of balanced living.
Are you looking for a safe place to discuss what matters most to you? Family, work, relationships, health, transitions, grief, loss, children, trauma, life purpose, letting go of past hurts. I love assisting individuals and couples with relationship skills, communication issues, changing self defeating patterns, healing pain (physical and emotional), and learning to be one's best self across settings. I work with children and families in our ever changing world to improve relationships, performance, self awareness, mood, behavior. I bring my many years of experience working with young and old alike to this passionate pursuit of balanced living.
I’m a bird lover — not just in a quirky fun-fact kind of way, but because I believe paying attention to the small things matters. It’s often in those details that we find what’s working, what’s not, and where to go next.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns that aren’t serving you, therapy can help. My approach is direct, compassionate, and grounded in strategies that actually work. We’ll make sense of what you’re experiencing, build tools that give you more control, and identify the patterns - in your relationships, your thoughts, or your stress response - that might be getting in the way.
I’m a bird lover — not just in a quirky fun-fact kind of way, but because I believe paying attention to the small things matters. It’s often in those details that we find what’s working, what’s not, and where to go next.
If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns that aren’t serving you, therapy can help. My approach is direct, compassionate, and grounded in strategies that actually work. We’ll make sense of what you’re experiencing, build tools that give you more control, and identify the patterns - in your relationships, your thoughts, or your stress response - that might be getting in the way.
I am trained and competent in many therapeutic modalities and interventions including EMDR, EFT, Seeking Safety protocol and Solution-Focused therapy.
I provide general psychotherapy for adolescents, adults and couples. My specialities include working with trauma, sexual and gender diversity, neurodivergence, attachment science, harm reduction and more with over a decade of experience as a mental health provider.
I am trained and competent in many therapeutic modalities and interventions including EMDR, EFT, Seeking Safety protocol and Solution-Focused therapy.
I provide general psychotherapy for adolescents, adults and couples. My specialities include working with trauma, sexual and gender diversity, neurodivergence, attachment science, harm reduction and more with over a decade of experience as a mental health provider.
I am a licensed clinical social worker and I work with children, adults and couple. I have had the honor of helping people to address anxiety, depression, identity exploration, relationship concerns, family issues, and trauma.
I am a licensed clinical social worker and I work with children, adults and couple. I have had the honor of helping people to address anxiety, depression, identity exploration, relationship concerns, family issues, and trauma.
I provide evaluation, assessment, and counseling addressing concerns with relationships and marriage, mood disorders (depression/mania), anxiety disorders, personality disorders, stress, trauma, communication, and personal growth. My experience has also prepared me to work with artist's issues as well as philosophical/ethical concerns. Where appropriate, I collaborate with physicians, psychiatrists, and other providers to ensure the highest quality of care. I attempt to develop an understanding environment, characterized by equality and co-operation that may then facilitate the resolution of your concerns with my assistance.
I provide evaluation, assessment, and counseling addressing concerns with relationships and marriage, mood disorders (depression/mania), anxiety disorders, personality disorders, stress, trauma, communication, and personal growth. My experience has also prepared me to work with artist's issues as well as philosophical/ethical concerns. Where appropriate, I collaborate with physicians, psychiatrists, and other providers to ensure the highest quality of care. I attempt to develop an understanding environment, characterized by equality and co-operation that may then facilitate the resolution of your concerns with my assistance.
I hold Advanced Certification in EFT Couples therapy, Level 2 in Gottman Couples Therapy, and am certified as a Discernment Counselor.
Accepting Discernment Counseling clients only. .... Former Therapy Clients welcome to contact me. .........
"Our relationship is rocky. Should we stay together or should we split?" - Discernment Counseling is a short-term (5 sessions or less) structured approach to help Couples where one person would like to leave but the other would like to continue the relationship. The goal is for each person to consider what would need to change in the relationship for them to feel differently, and what they themselves (not just their partner) can do to initiate and drive that change. We work toward one of three outcomes:
I hold Advanced Certification in EFT Couples therapy, Level 2 in Gottman Couples Therapy, and am certified as a Discernment Counselor.
Accepting Discernment Counseling clients only. .... Former Therapy Clients welcome to contact me. .........
"Our relationship is rocky. Should we stay together or should we split?" - Discernment Counseling is a short-term (5 sessions or less) structured approach to help Couples where one person would like to leave but the other would like to continue the relationship. The goal is for each person to consider what would need to change in the relationship for them to feel differently, and what they themselves (not just their partner) can do to initiate and drive that change. We work toward one of three outcomes:
Reaching out for help can be a daunting experience, and an important step towards growth and healing. It is an honor to be invited into your journey. I have experience working with adults in individual and relationship therapy. My approach is relational, psychodynamic, and collaborative and rooted in the possibility of transformation. Together we can be curious about how your past experiences and relationships shape the present, and help you move into greater aliveness and deeper connection to self and others.
Reaching out for help can be a daunting experience, and an important step towards growth and healing. It is an honor to be invited into your journey. I have experience working with adults in individual and relationship therapy. My approach is relational, psychodynamic, and collaborative and rooted in the possibility of transformation. Together we can be curious about how your past experiences and relationships shape the present, and help you move into greater aliveness and deeper connection to self and others.
Shea McGinnis
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LCAS
2 Endorsed
Online Only
Waitlist for new clients
Are you consumed by worry and overwhelm? So much so that it is easier to just stay home. Feeling totally isolated and alone in your stress and unmotivated to do anything today? Wondering what happened to the person you used to know and want to rediscover yourself? Or, you may be experiencing immense shame and guilt nearly every day. Are you finding your relationships challenging to navigate? Not knowing how to say what you need and want to say? Or, you may be struggling to break addictive patterns and feeling desperate for change.
Are you consumed by worry and overwhelm? So much so that it is easier to just stay home. Feeling totally isolated and alone in your stress and unmotivated to do anything today? Wondering what happened to the person you used to know and want to rediscover yourself? Or, you may be experiencing immense shame and guilt nearly every day. Are you finding your relationships challenging to navigate? Not knowing how to say what you need and want to say? Or, you may be struggling to break addictive patterns and feeling desperate for change.
