Individual & Couples Therapy for Raleigh, NC

My office is just off Ninth Street in Durham, roughly half an hour from downtown Raleigh when traffic is kind — and Raleigh knows when it isn’t. Some clients fold the drive into a workday that already touches Durham or the Research Triangle; others meet with me online and skip I-40 altogether.

Over the years, clients have come from Five Points, Hayes Barton, and Oakwood, and from the towns of Western Wake — Cary, Apex, Morrisville, Holly Springs, Wake Forest.

I don’t keep an office in Raleigh itself. In-person sessions take place in Durham, and online sessions are available throughout North Carolina.

Individual Therapy for Raleigh Adults

Raleigh runs on capability — law, medicine, state government, the university, technology. Many of the people who call me are good at their work and know it; what brings them isn’t failure but the quieter suspicion that competence has been standing in for something else. For others, it is a transition — a career turning, a marriage ending or beginning, or a loss that refuses to recede.

Therapy holds all of it: the serious work, yes, but also the occasional lightness that comes when words finally find their shape. We’ll move at a pace that fits you. Learn more about individual therapy.

Couples Therapy for Raleigh

Couples often arrive able to describe the argument perfectly and still be unable to change what happens inside it. Practical communication matters, but so do the fears, loyalties, and longings that give the argument its force.

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

Raleigh has its own gravity — the shelves at Quail Ridge, an evening at Burning Coal, the long green of the museum park, a downtown that keeps outgrowing its postcard. As a capital and professional center, it is a place where work, ambition, and public life can take up a great deal of room. Therapy offers a different kind of room: private, unhurried, and free of the roles the rest of the week requires.

The drive to Durham, when clients make it, often turns out to be part of the work — half an hour where the day loosens its grip before the conversation begins.

Meeting Online

For many Raleigh clients, online is simply the practical choice. We meet by secure video; what is 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.