Individual & Couples Therapy for Hillsborough, NC

My office is just off Ninth Street in Durham — about twenty minutes from the courthouse clock, either straight down I-85 or by the slower way through the country. Over the years, many clients have made that short trip from the historic district, West Hillsborough, and the countryside around town.

I don’t keep an office in Hillsborough itself. In-person sessions take place in Durham, and online sessions are available throughout North Carolina. Some clients value the small separation between home and therapy; others prefer to meet without making the drive.

Individual Therapy for Hillsborough Adults

A town known for its writers knows something about interior life — and knows, too, that a rich one is no protection against anxiety, depression, or grief. Some people come to therapy in the middle of a story that has stopped making sense: a marriage, a vocation, a faith, a family script. Others come because of a transition — a career turning, children leaving, or a loss that refuses to recede.

Therapy need not begin with a crisis or a diagnosis. Sometimes it begins with a question that has become difficult to avoid. We’ll give it enough time and attention to discover what it is asking — and allow for the occasional lightness that comes when words finally find their shape. Learn more about individual therapy.

Couples Therapy for Hillsborough

Couples often know their argument by heart — every line, every escalation — and still cannot change what happens inside it. The pattern has its reasons: fears, loyalties, and longings that the argument protects without ever naming.

In couples therapy, I draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman approach while attending to the particular relationship in front of me. Sometimes the conversation is difficult. Sometimes it’s a relief. Often, it’s both. Learn more about couples therapy and how I work.

The Practice

For more than twenty years, I’ve worked with individuals and couples across the Triangle. My training includes a postgraduate clinical fellowship at Harvard, an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work, and an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School.

The work is depth-oriented and practical at once: attentive to the history beneath a pattern without losing sight of what might help this week.

A Note on Place

Hillsborough’s closeness is much of its charm. It can also make privacy feel especially precious. For some clients, coming to Durham offers a little distance from the web of familiar faces and overlapping lives — not secrecy, exactly, but a room in which nothing has to travel beyond the conversation.

The return trip can matter too: the interstate falling away at Exit 164, a little time for what was said to settle before home comes back into view.

Meeting Online

When the week doesn’t leave room for the drive, we can meet online. We meet by secure video; what’s needed on your end is an hour, a reliable connection, and a door that closes.

Getting Started

Sessions are private pay, with documentation available for out-of-network reimbursement. When you’re ready, you can request an appointment or read more about what the first appointment is like.