Find a Therapist in Charlotte, NC
In-person
4108 Park Road, Suite 410, Charlotte, NC 28209
Telehealth
Available throughout North Carolina
Insurance
Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Magellan, Medicare, United Healthcare
Free consultation
Available by phone or secure video before your first appointment
Searching for a therapist usually starts with a practical question: who would I be working with? At Montgomery Counseling Group, the answer is on this page. Each clinician’s focus, credentials, and way of working are laid out below, so a first appointment starts with a clearer picture of the person across from you.
Trauma-informed care is the shared foundation across the team. It shapes how every clinician here understands behavior and how the team coordinates care, whether someone is working through anxiety, a difficult relationship, a hard season with a child, or a history of trauma.
Meet Our Charlotte, NC Therapists
Every clinician at MCG brings a distinct focus and approach. The profiles below outline each clinician’s credentials and areas of focus, which makes it easier to compare fit before reaching out
John Burns MSW, LCSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant
Clinical focus: Complex and developmental trauma. John uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Ericksonian Clinical Hypnosis in his practice
Taylor Banner, LCSWA
Clinical focus: Couples and family therapy, using Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Structural Family Therapy.
Michelle Daley, LCMHC, Senior Clinician
Clinical focus: Children, adolescents, ADHD, autism, and parent-child relationships, including school avoidance. An EMDR Trained Clinician trained in Play Therapy. Navy Veteran.
Naila McConnell, LCMHCA, Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist
Clinical focus: Adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families, including mental health and substance use concerns. Naila brings certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to the clinical team.
Javontae Bradley, LCMHCA
Clinical focus: Men’s issues, trauma-informed care, and culturally responsive psychotherapy. Javontae works with individuals facing anger, relational stress, and the emotional patterns that form when there has been no framework for processing them. He draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) .
Meredith Turner-Toth, LCSW, Senior Clinician
Clinical focus: Adolescents and adults, offering individual and group therapy. Meredith works with depression, OCD, life transitions, trauma, and difficult family dynamics, and is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Who We Are
The psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson held that no two people experience the world the same way, and that a clinician’s work is never to fit someone into a fixed idea of who they should be. That conviction sits at the center of how Montgomery Counseling Group was built.
John Burns, MSW, LCSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, first studied Erickson’s work in graduate school and has carried that approach through more than 30 years of clinical practice, including work in hospital settings, substance use programs, family therapy clinics, and Employee Assistance Programs. He opened Montgomery Counseling Group (MCG) in Charlotte, NC to build a practice centered on trauma-informed care, anxiety, and depression, where no fixed protocol stands in for the person in the room. The EMDRIA Approved Consultant designation John holds is an advanced EMDR credential that qualifies a clinician to provide formal consultation to other EMDR therapists.
The mission is straightforward: individualized care, delivered in a peaceful, unhurried atmosphere. MCG is a collaborative practice where clinical expertise meets compassionate, person-specific care for individuals, couples, and families throughout the Charlotte area. Approaches across the team include CBT, EMDR, DBT, clinical hypnosis, and Play Therapy, matched to what a specific person needs.
Trauma-informed describes how the whole team works. A parent bringing in a child for school avoidance and an adult processing years of complex trauma are seen by clinicians who coordinate around the same clinical framework, whether the concern is anxiety, a relationship in distress, a child’s shifting behavior, or a trauma history someone is ready to work through.
Montgomery Counseling Group offers in-person sessions at the Park Road office in Charlotte, NC and telehealth services to clients throughout North Carolina.
Our Areas of Expertise
What to Expect
Every clinician meets a client where they are and builds a plan around that specific person’s history and goals, adjusting course as the work unfolds. Change takes time, and the pace belongs to the person doing the work.
Reaching out is often the hardest step. Everything after that first call, from the first conversation to choosing a clinician, is set up to feel manageable.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a therapist cost in NC?
Cost depends on a few factors: whether insurance is used, which plan is in place, and whether someone pays out of pocket. Using insurance can lower the amount paid per session, though it may also come with limits on session count or clinician choice, and coverage depends on the documentation requirements set by the plan. Paying out of pocket removes those limits and keeps the process more private. Montgomery Counseling Group offers a sliding scale for clients who pay out of pocket, based on income. Full details are on the Rates & Insurance page.
How do I find a therapist in Charlotte?
Finding a therapist in Charlotte usually comes down to a few things: specialty match, licensure, and whether the clinician’s approach fits how someone wants to work. Charlotte has a wide range of providers, which can make comparing them time-consuming. The Montgomery Counseling Group team spans trauma, anxiety, depression, couples and family work, and care for children and adolescents, all under one shared clinical framework. The services page outlines the full range of counseling and psychotherapy offered at MCG.
What are the 7 types of counseling?
There is no single, universally agreed list of exactly seven types of counseling. Counseling is generally grouped by the population served and the concern being addressed, and different professional sources organize those groupings differently. Common categories include individual counseling, couples and family counseling, child and adolescent counseling, group counseling, trauma-focused counseling, grief counseling, and career counseling. At Montgomery Counseling Group, the relevant categories are individual, couples and family, and child and adolescent therapy, each delivered through a trauma-informed lens.
How long does therapy take?
There is no fixed length. How long therapy takes depends on what someone is working on, and the number of sessions varies from person to person and concern to concern. At Montgomery Counseling Group, the client and therapist work together to move through the work as efficiently as the situation allows. The aim is to work effectively and then step back, with the door open for future sessions whenever they would help. MCG does not default to keeping clients in therapy longer than the work calls for
Which therapists work with anxiety?
Every clinician at Montgomery Counseling Group works with anxiety as part of a broader trauma-informed approach, rather than it being the sole focus of any single provider. Each therapist’s profile lists their credentials and areas of focus, which is the fastest way to compare fit before reaching out.
Who works with relationship issues in Charlotte?
Taylor Banner, LCSWA, focuses on couples and family therapy at Montgomery Counseling Group, using Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Structural Family Therapy. Naila McConnell, LCMHCA, Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist, also works with couples and families alongside her work with individuals and adolescents. Both therapists’ profiles are available on this page.