We are continually interested in hiring multiculturally affirming North Carolina-licensed-and-based psychotherapists to deliver treatments that are rooted in humanism & relationality, and are scientifically supported. Our psychotherapists should be comfortable holding an emotionally accessible, responsive and engaged relational stance with each patient/client (i.e. no neutral blank screens and no authoritarian “experts”), in support of each patient’s needs for autonomy, competency, and relatedness. We especially appreciate clinicians who are informed by attachment theory and self determination theory, and are oriented to emotion-focused, experiential, post-modern and systemic methods such as EFT (Sue Johnson), AEDP (Diana Fosha), Narrative Therapy (Michael White), and ACT (Steve Hayes).

Additionally, we emphasize practitioner expertise through ongoing study, training, expert consultation and deliberate practice in approaches that capture the variety of art and science of effective psychotherapy.  Ultimately, psychotherapists with us do best when they exhibit an interest in being helpful to clients by simply being with clients in the processing of their experiences of life even when these are not immediately or apparently the target of their interventions (i.e. “being with” rather than “doing to”).  In other words, our therapists follow clients to meet them where they are, and then collaboratively lead them to where they want to be.

Even though we encourage our practitioners to have 1 or 2 preferred models of psychotherapy practice to gain expertise in, as a group practice we do not specify which approaches/models of psychotherapy our therapists utilize, nor are we a dogmatic church of certain therapy tribes despite how certain models capture our ethos, or the expertise and certifications many of our practitioners possess in particular models.  Rather, we want our clinicians to be focused on doing what works for each therapy flexibly and adaptively (aka “client/patient-therapist working relationship” or the "working alliance)), and as such we emphasize client-directed, outcome-informed practice with the deliberate practice of scientifically supported therapeutic relationship skills and support for learning models of psychotherapy that inspire client-therapist dyads and have scientific support.  We provide financial support for study, training and deliberate practice of these therapeutic relationship skills, and financial support for therapists to seek outside study, training, and consultation from certified experts in specific models.  Additionally, as our group develops critical masses of clinicians practicing specific models we encourage internal groupings for peer learning support and fellowship.