Emotionally Focused Therapists in Winston Salem, NC

Everything begins with your mindset. First, I would like to congratulate you on making the right decision to take action over your life. My name is Paiga Brown, and I am here to support you as you take this journey! I have experience supporting individuals who face the challenges of dealing with anxiety and mood disorders, anxiety, trauma, depression, and relationship issues. I specialize in working with both adults and adolescents through Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Emotionally Focused Expressive Arts Mindfulness-Based (MBCT) Music Therapy Play Therapy and Art Therapy.

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.

I enjoy the opportunity to offer clients a trusting and safe environment to process thoughts, recent life events and changes as well as more specific interpersonal challenges and concerns. Additionally, I can provide a non-judgmental and compassionate approach for clients that are seeking a warm, yet goal-directed, therapeutic experience. I work with partners wanting support around communication, premarital work, intimacy, and staying connected through difficult emotional seasons and transitions.

It is my ethical and moral duty to provide you with services that are person centered and goal oriented. We work as a team together. Therefore, fostering a positive and thriving therapeutic relationship. I received my MS in Rehabilitation Counseling, in May 2007, from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina and my BA degree in Psychology in May 2004 from Bennett College for Women. I am a fully Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC). I have over 19 years of experience in mental health and have been licensed as a mental health counselor for 10 years.

I help couples make sense of how they are getting stuck in conflict. I help them organize their experience, and clarify the good emotional reasons for why they are stuck. Together we identify unmet needs and longings, and work to develop understanding and responsiveness. With greater closeness and trust, partners are able to find solutions to life’s challenges, heal from relationship wounds, and experience love again. I have experience helping couples recover from infidelity/betrayals. When counseling individual clients, I work from a trauma-informed, attachment lens. I help individuals clarify what they need to heal and grow.

The core of all my work with clients centers around connection. Whether you are an individual who has experienced trauma or is feeling constantly worn out and discouraged, a couple lacking emotional connection or walking through difficult times, I am here to help you. I work with individuals with a wide variety of struggles, including those experiencing stress, trauma, mood disorders, &/or life transitions, as well as couples who are in distress or seeking to rekindle their connection.

I believe that every person has the ability to grow, heal and change. As a counselor, I provide a space of nonjudgmental acceptance and authenticity which invites clients to show up exactly as they are and to be valued and supported in all aspects of their identity. I aim to partner with and empower my clients, utilizing the strengths and skills they already possess, to work toward their goals for healing and growth. My counseling orientation is grounded in a family systems approach, though I also draw significantly from attachment theory and person-centered counseling.

At Bloom Couples Counseling, I offer a comprehensive, scientifically-based approach to relationship counseling in a supportive and appropriately challenging setting. I help you unravel the mystery of the cyclical nature of relationship problems, reducing frustration and restoring connection. Using evidence-based tools and approaches, my goal is to help you and your partner move from distance to addressing the problems as a team, leaving you both with a sense of pride in each other's core needs and dreams for the relationship.

Few of us are lucky enough to go through life without challenges or suffering. This is true for me personally. Like me, you may need help from a therapist during life’s harder moments, someone you can trust who is compassionate, nonjudgemental, and empathetic. I specialize in helping people process and heal from the difficult situations that can come up in life. I also enjoying helping people recover from upsetting or traumatic experiences in the past that may be keeping them from feeling their best now.

Please allow me to commend you for seeking out therapy: I am very glad that you are recognizing a personal need to find support in a mental health professional. Whether or not you decide that I am a good therapeutic fit for you and your needs, I believe wholeheartedly that every person can benefit from therapy at some point in their lives. It can be supremely beneficial to have a caring but impartial perspective in your life to help you heal, grow, and fulfill your own personal needs/goals.

Jessie is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (#12789) who completed her graduate education at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, earning an M.A. in Christian Counseling. She is a Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT). She specializes in counseling couples and individuals (18+) surrounding marital distress, attachment injuries, past harm (abuse, neglect, trauma, self-harm), pre-marital counseling, anxiety, and depression.

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.

I specialize in helping individuals and couples improve their relationship by facilitating crucial conversations and developing healthy ways of communicating that are vulnerable, respectful, and supportive. I help people understand how their habits, beliefs, and expectations affect their individual and relational health. Through this process, clients develop the skills and implement the tools needed to live a fulfilling life and have satisfying relationships.

I have extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families with a history of trauma, anxiety, and depression. I am able to support both incorporating a client's faith into sessions and issues related to religious trauma. I enjoy working with neurodivergent clients and strive to always create an accepting, strengths-focused therapeutic space. As a member of the community, I love serving LGBTQIA clients. I also work with friends and family members actively working on their own ability to provide an accepting and affirming space for their LGBTQIA loved ones. Additionally, I love being a therapist to other therapists!

Are you lonely and hurt? Are you struggling to find connection? Are you and your partner arguing and blaming one another? You may even be considering separation or divorce. Sometimes we get stuck in relationships and just don’t know how to move forward. Oftentimes, we get caught in the same repetitive patterns. Everyone has the capacity for change. It’s time to get un-stuck, realize there is hope, and find healing.

To provide services in the Mental Health and Substance Use field that will assist diverse populations with obtaining goals they have set for themselves in life. I’d like to do this while interacting with them in a group and/or individual setting. I feel that based on my educational experience, work experience and personal background, I could help individuals in the mental health and substances use concerns and want to achieve the success they desire for their lives.

I work with adult men and women(ages16-99)struggling with sues such as anxiety, depression, and relationship issues, as well as those who have attention deficits. I also work with individuals struggling to find the big picture of their life, struggling to identify core values, and are “failing to launch,” having a mid-life crisis, struggling to adapt to retirement, or are having a crisis of faith. I work with older teens (16+) who are having school related problems, suffering from anxiety or depression, or have attention deficit disorder. I consider counseling a ministry to your needs above your ability to pay. My rates are low.

You're tired of feeling stuck, hurt, confused, and lost. Life has stalled out because of relationship static, family stress, anxiety, career crisis, addiction, lost hope, or past events that keep you running in circles. Each day feels like you're walking on eggshells. Sometimes you feel so cut off from yourself and those you love that you’re not sure who you are anymore, or if it's possible to figure it out. You wonder if things will ever get better and if living life with peace, joy, and renewed energy can really happen.

Life can throw us some major challenges and often people can end up in survival mode, panic mode, or just struggling to get out of bed in the morning. Counseling provides resources and support for moving out of these modes into well-being, health, and joy. Each person comes to counseling with their own strengths and challenges. My job as a therapist is to support each person as they move towards their goals such as decreasing anxiety and depression, healing from old wounds or trauma, learning skills to manage emotions or experiences, exploring themes such as identity and self-esteem, working through relationship conflicts, and more.