MEET MARIE

She, her, hers.

I provide psychotherapy for older teens and adults experiencing a range of issues including living with mental illness, anxiety, depressed mood, challenging life transitions, and symptoms related to PTSD/ traumatic experiences. 

Do you feel disconnected or unsure? Do you wonder if your relationships could be easier or richer? Does your life look differently than you would like? I work with clients to explore and resolve questions like these. Effective therapy can help you find relief from suffering, identify internal and relational changes that you’d like to pursue, and develop ways to approach change and growth that will resonate with you specifically.

My practice integrates proven therapeutic techniques and treatment models with warmth, humor, and compassion. I actively work to provide a safe, productive and celebratory environment for everyone that I work with; this particularly includes people of color, those in the LGBTQIA community, those who identify as gender or sexually non-conforming, and/or for those living life in bodies across the spectrum of physical abilities and characteristics. If you hold concerns about my ability to attune to or nurture specific elements of your identity, please ask me for more information about my approach. Your experiences and characteristics matter, and you deserve to receive clear information about how a therapist prepares themselves to connect with clients.

I have a special interest in supporting clients in relationships with people experiencing mental illness, addiction, or chronic illness. Having a family member, friend, or partner experience long-term illness or substance abuse often presents complicated feelings and situations. I can provide the thoughtful attention and empathic, helpful feedback that you deserve while you sort through elements of your relationship.

Relationships of all kinds are integral to a balanced life. Talk therapy can be profoundly useful in understanding one’s own identity, inherent worth, desires, and behaviors in order to create deep and empowered connections with oneself and with others. Put more simply: talking with a trusted therapist can help you find peaceful resiliency and actively participate in the life that you desire.

Throughout my career as a social worker I have worked with people experiencing a range of personal challenges. For example, I have supported clients healing after years of complex trauma, creating lives of recovery and contentment while living with serious mental illness, resolving social anxiety, creating plans for pursuing education and career goals, and strengthening relationships. I believe therapy to be most useful when there is emphasis on increasing self-love, strengthening our ability to trust ourselves, and building a safe and helpful relationship with our own emotions. An actively loving, thoughtful, honest, and curious relationship with oneself generates incredibly rich soil for expansive, fun, compelling, and safe relationships with others.

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and received my Master of Social Work from UNC-Chapel Hill. I completed my clinical training at the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health, part of the UNC Department of Psychiatry, in Carrboro, NC. I have a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics, with an interest in systems of poverty in the United States. Prior to my formal social work training I worked in homeless services in Virginia, and Social Services in Durham, NC. My daily life and professional work is strongly rooted in, and driven by, the pursuit of social justice and loving interpersonal connection.