I work for Creasman Counseling, a dynamic practice that serves folks in North Carolina. The practice strives to provide mental health services that see clients as more than a diagnosis, and deserve to be accepted just as they are. While we are trained to treat a variety of concerns including anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and perinatal mental health concerns, your goals and values will always be centered in your work with our team. 

​At the practice we bring curiosity and humility to our helping relationships, and are committed to honoring the many layers of the client. 

About

My journey to the chair across from you is one of much brokenness and grief. I began my own healing path in 2012 when I could no longer overlook the neglect, sexual abuse, and commercial sexual exploitation that stole much of my childhood and plagued my adulthood. The tipping point for me came after a series of relationships that ended in sabotage, that left me desperate to process my past in hopes to find a rich and beautiful future.

I spent many years in the chair across from a kind and seeing therapist, during those years I also began to take yoga classes. Through my personal experience and training that I found a mix of talking through the trauma and abuse while moving in a way that cared for my body was helpful. The combination of yoga and counseling open up pathways of healing cognitively, emotionally and physically. This avenue of healing allowed me to come back home to my body, integrating body, mind, soul, and spirit.

My approach to counseling is that we are our one minds, body, soul, and spirit - all within us is connected - we are one. Becoming reconnected is the process of returning to your whole self, back home to who we are designed to be. Although we cannot erase the harm done to us, we can reclaim and reconnect back to our original sense of self. Counseling is a process of coming back home to you.

I am a fan of allowing you to guide our processes of coming home to you. My approach to therapy is an embodied, interpersonal and narrative (story) focused. I am so aware that by even reading this, I am inviting you into a bold ask and a big risk. And wow a rich journey to enter into your story in hopes to find your way back home. I'd be honored to meet you, sit with you and talk with you.

How does your practice affirm BIPOC and LGBTQ+ individuals?

Our highly-trained and seasoned providers will meet you where you are to get you where you want to go. We are LGBTQIA+ and racial/cultural affirming, and are trained in a wide range of approaches including Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Informed Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based treatments.

We are guided by principles of awareness, compassion and change in our clinical and community-based work. We seek to bring awareness to issues such as racial trauma, domestic violence, and women's health concerns. We offer accessible services and extensive training through our counseling internship program. And we partner with community groups engaged in activism with and for marginalized groups.