Therapy for Therapists & Helping Professionals in Hickory, NC & Online Across North Carolina
You’re used to being the one who holds space. Here, you don’t have to.
You’re great at showing up for your clients, students, or patients—but sometimes at your own expense.
You care deeply about the people you serve, which can make it hard to know where caring ends and overextending begins. You squeeze in one more appointment, skip lunch because someone needs you, answer the message when you’re technically off, or make yourself available because saying “I don’t have room” feels uncomfortable.
You know boundaries matter—you probably talk about them every day. But when there’s a real person in front of you who needs something, holding your own limit can feel very different.
Over time, those small exceptions add up. Your schedule has less breathing room, your own needs keep getting bumped to later, and the work you love starts asking more of you than you meant to give.
You probably…
Make room for one more client, student, or patient even when your schedule is already full.
Know exactly where the boundary is but find it much harder to hold when someone genuinely needs you.
Feel responsible for outcomes that aren’t entirely in your control and wonder what you could have done differently.
Hold yourself to a higher standard than you’d ever expect from someone else and quietly worry about getting it wrong.
Feel guilty protecting your own time when someone else could benefit from you giving a little more.
Find yourself wondering about your own ADHD, AuDHD, anxiety, or other patterns as you recognize pieces of yourself in what you’re learning or seeing in others.
Want somewhere you can take off the professional hat without worrying about being evaluated, judged, or expected to already know the answer.
how i can help
You don’t have to have it all figured out here.
You already know the language of boundaries, burnout, self-care, and emotional regulation. What you may not have had is a place to get curious about why those things become so much harder to practice when someone is counting on you.
We’ll look beneath the overextending, perfectionism, and self-doubt at what keeps you saying yes when you’re already at capacity. For many helpers, being needed, useful, or exceptionally good at what you do became tangled up with feeling valued and secure long before you chose this work.
This isn't another place where you have to perform insight or say the 'right' thing. You get to show up as a whole human being—with your own needs, messy parts, questions, and limits—and let someone else hold space for you for a change.
Moving beyond standard talk therapy or clinical troubleshooting, our work draws from advanced, experiential modalities. I naturally weave together Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Brainspotting to gently target where your system physically stores secondary trauma and burnout, while integrating direct frameworks like Relational Life Therapy (RLT) and Neural Desensitization and Integration Training (NDIT) to restore your energy and boundaries. You can take off the professional hat completely, knowing your credibility is safe while we unburden the weight you carry.
TOGETHER WE’LL WORK ON…
Being attuned to others is one of your strengths. But when you’re highly empathic, sensitive, or neurodivergent, it can be hard to tell where someone else’s experience ends and yours begins.
Together, we’ll help you notice what belongs to you and what doesn’t, so you can stay present and connected without leaving every interaction depleted. You don’t need to care less—you need room to care for yourself, too.
Learning to care deeply without carrying it all.
You can have years of training, experience, and evidence that you’re good at what you do—and still wonder if you missed something, said the wrong thing, or should know more by now.
Together, we’ll get curious about what keeps moving the bar so your confidence can come from trusting yourself, not constantly proving yourself.
Quieting the voice that says you’re not doing enough.
You don’t have to stop caring deeply about the people you serve. We’ll work on noticing when caring turns into overextending—adding one more appointment, skipping the break, or making yourself available when you’re already at capacity.
Together, we’ll help you protect your time and energy without guilt, so the work you love has room to exist alongside the rest of your life.
Creating a more sustainable relationship with your work.
You spend so much of your day being the one who listens, understands, and knows what to do next. Here, you get to have your own questions, struggles, triggers, and messy moments without wondering what they say about your ability to help someone else.
You don’t have to be perfectly healed to be really good at what you do. Together, we will create a private, specialized container where you can safely process your own triggers, imposter thoughts, and professional pressures without ever having to justify your seat in the room.
Being your whole, human self—without questioning your credibility.
YOU’RE ALLOWED TO NEED SUPPORT, TOO.
Being the one others turn to doesn’t mean you have to carry everything alone.
faqs
Common questions about therapy for therapist, students, and fellow helpers.
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I work with many fellow therapists and helpers, and it’s a population I care deeply about. Most are highly insightful and capable, and still feel stuck in the same pressures they help others with. Therapy with me is a place where you don’t have to have the “right” answer, and can move through your emotions without fear of judgment.
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Aside from therapists, I also work with nurses, physicians, teachers, school counselors, social workers, and other caregivers. If you spend your days holding space for others and feel depleted or like there’s too much on your plate, this work is for you.
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Yes, but not through basic self-care checklists or logic. For helping professionals, burnout is a physiological state where your nervous system has remained on high alert for too long. My approach moves past basic venting; we use a blend of IFS, Brainspotting, ACT, RLT, and NDIT to target and clear the somatic exhaustion and secondary trauma stored in your body. This allows your threat detector to safely down-regulate, helping you protect your energy and return to the work you love without sacrificing your personal life.
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Supervision is about your clinical work. Therapy is about you. If you don’t feel you have enough room to bring your doubts, attachment patterns, or personal triggers into supervision, therapy gives you a place where nothing about you is being evaluated.
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Yes. I work with graduate students and provisionally licensed clinicians who want a space that feels separate from supervision or agency oversight. You don’t have to worry about being evaluated or how something might impact your hours toward licensure. This is a place to sort through your own reactions, doubts, and personal patterns without it affecting your professional standing.
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If you’re feeling consistently drained, questioning your competence more than usual, bringing work home mentally every night, or struggling to practice what you teach, that’s worth paying attention to. You might notice you’re overextending your schedule, avoiding certain cases, or feeling resentful and then ashamed for feeling that way. You don’t have to wait until you’re burned out to get support — therapy can help you recalibrate before things reach that point.
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