I am an experienced and highly trained therapist in Durham, NC, specializing in individual and couples counseling with adults. I work with people in the entire Triangle area of North Carolina, including Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Hillsborough, and Cary, in a private and warm setting. I enjoy helping women and men of all ages to develop new insights, make changes in their lives, and find happiness.
I am experienced in working with clients to increase self-awareness, make good decisions, manage grief and suffering, respond to hardship, and create more fulfilling lives and relationships. I believe in the power of a therapeutic relationship to provide a space to work out difficult feelings, figure out how to manage life transitions and relationship challenges, or achieve a more purposeful life.
I am experienced in working with clients to increase self-awareness, make good decisions, manage grief and suffering, respond to hardship, and create more fulfilling lives and relationships. I believe in the power of a therapeutic relationship to provide a space to work out difficult feelings, figure out how to manage life transitions and relationship challenges, or achieve a more purposeful life.
Services
Carolyn is a highly-trained and experienced therapist specializing in individual, couples, and group therapy. She offers a range of specialized and effective treatment approaches that she tailors to your particular concerns, temperament, and goals. She provides these comprehensive services in a confidential, relaxed atmosphere.
As a holistic therapist, I combine several therapeutic models in order to best meet your needs, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, biofeedback, and narrative therapy. Psychodynamic psychotherapy helps clients become aware of, understand, and experience vulnerable feelings and the underlying dynamics that have been pushed out of conscious awareness by defense mechanisms.
Carolyn Stevenson is a wonderful therapist. She really helped me through a difficult patch in my life. I had never been to a therapist before, but found that her warm sense of humor and keen listening skills created a safe space for me to talk about whatever was on my mind. Because she has worked in a variety of academic settings, with students as well as professors, she is very familiar with the particular pressures of academic life.
For those of you who are thinking about counseling services, whether that might be working with a therapist or life coach, I welcome having an initial appointment to explore together what you are seeking and how I might be able to help you. Sometimes trying to find a therapist can feel a bit overwhelming.
Everybody experiences anxiety from time to time, and a certain amount of anxiety can be helpful. For example, anxiety can help you deal with a tense situation, study harder for an exam, or keep focused on a presentation. Sometimes, however, people experience an excessive or prolonged amount of anxiety.
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Basalat Adam
Sep 14, 2019
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Rebekha Elliott
Jun 30, 2019
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Carolyn is simply wonderful. She is always accommodating regarding scheduling and offers a warm welcome upon arrival. She offers a cozy, comforting environment - without the slightest clinical feel. She consistently offers positive life experience, unconditionally understanding, and true empathy. It is obvious that she really wants the best for her clients. Her payment process is so easy and allows one more time to focus on mental health. Highly recommended.
Sarah Regan
Nov 26, 2018
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Carolyn has help me in my worst time in my life. She helped me work though my lose of a love one an ugly break up, she guide me back to myself and to rediscover myself. Carolyn helped me out of a deep black hole.
Carolyn's place of therapy is cozy, comfortable, safe and she made me feel welcome.
I moved away but I know if I ever need her, she'll make time for me.
Carolyn's place of therapy is cozy, comfortable, safe and she made me feel welcome.
I moved away but I know if I ever need her, she'll make time for me.
