Meredith Turner-Toth, LCSW | Senior Clinician |
Montgomery Counseling Group
Trauma-Informed Therapist in Charlotte, NC
Collaborative counseling for adolescents and adults, in person at the Park Road office and by telehealth across North Carolina.
Meredith Turner-Toth is a Senior Clinician and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) at Montgomery Counseling Group in Charlotte, NC. She works with adolescents and adults who are dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, relationship stress, trauma, and the strain of caring for someone else who is struggling.
Meredith approaches therapy with warmth and without judgment. Her work is collaborative. She helps people build self-awareness and draw on their own strengths, so that what they gain in session holds up long after the session is over.
How Meredith Works
Meredith draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-informed approaches in her practice. She adapts to what each person needs: some clients benefit from structure and skills work, others need more open processing. The method follows the person.
CBT in her practice begins with the frameworks people carry: the core beliefs about themselves, others, and the world that develop through lived experience. Much of the early work is about building awareness of those frameworks and beginning to understand how they shape day-to-day experience.
DBT she describes as a practice rather than a program. It draws on four areas of skill: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. For people who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions or who struggle to find the middle path between extremes, DBT offers a concrete and learnable set of tools.
Motivational Interviewing guides people in examining their own circumstances so that the desire to change comes from within. The insight has to belong to the person for it to hold.
Trauma informs everything. As a trauma-informed therapist in Charlotte, NC, Meredith works from the understanding that unresolved trauma affects the nervous system, physical health, and the way people relate to those around them.
Meredith spent years in Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient settings where coordinating care across providers and systems was central to the work. That systems-level orientation shapes how she thinks about what each person needs and what a realistic path forward looks like.
Who Meredith Works With
Meredith works with adolescents and adults, broadly ages 11 and up. She has particular experience with:
- Women and adolescent girls
- College students
- People supporting a family member in active addiction or recovery
- Survivors of domestic violence and trafficking
- Parents and new mothers
- People experiencing grief and loss
- Individuals with severe and persistent mental health concerns
- People working through difficult family relationships and life transitions
She works with the full range of what brings people into counseling and psychotherapy: depression, anxiety, relational stress, OCD, and the long-term effects of trauma.
Meredith’s Background
Meredith earned her Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Bachelor of Science in Sociology from North Carolina State University. Her clinical path has taken her through some of the most demanding settings in the field.
She has worked in adolescent day programs with young people managing emotional and behavioral struggles, substance use, and involvement with the juvenile justice and foster care systems. She has worked as a crisis counselor and team lead in a hospital emergency department. There she completed crisis assessments and provided acute counseling, and she worked with medical teams to determine the right level of care for people arriving in some of the hardest moments of their lives. She has led groups in Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient programs, and has served in clinical director and executive director roles at an outpatient mental health organization.
What runs through all of that experience is a consistent investment in people who are often overlooked: people in crisis, and people caught up in systems that were not built with them in mind. Behaviors that look like problems often trace back to something that happened to the person. Meredith’s work starts from that understanding.
She holds unconditional positive regard as a core orientation and works from a belief in each person’s inherent capacity for change. The therapeutic relationship is the foundation of the work. That orientation took shape through years in settings where people arrived in acute distress and left with more than they came in with.
A Little About Meredith
Meredith loves the outdoors and travels to places that are beautiful and a little unusual. She is an animal lover with a soft spot for rescue dogs. Music is a regular part of her life, and she goes to concerts whenever she can. She is a mother to a daughter whose curiosity about the world keeps her own curiosity alive.
Meredith Turner-Toth | LCSW | Montgomery Counseling Group
Meredith Turner-Toth, LCSW
Meredith Turner-Toth is a Senior Clinician and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) at Montgomery Counseling Group in Charlotte, NC. She works with adolescents and adults and brings experience across crisis intervention, group therapy leadership, and trauma-informed care. Meredith draws on CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-informed approaches to support people working through depression, anxiety, grief, life transitions, and relationship stress. She offers in-person sessions at the Park Road office and telehealth sessions throughout North Carolina
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What does a Senior Clinician at Montgomery Counseling Group do?
A Senior Clinician at Montgomery Counseling Group is an experienced therapist who carries advanced clinical responsibility within the practice. Meredith Turner-Toth holds this role alongside her licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), a credential that requires a Master of Social Work degree and thousands of hours of supervised clinical practice in North Carolina.
Who does Meredith Turner-Toth work with?
Meredith works with adolescents and adults, ages 11 and up, at Montgomery Counseling Group in Charlotte, NC. She has particular experience with women and adolescent girls, college students, new mothers, survivors of domestic violence and trafficking, and people supporting a family member through addiction or recovery.
What is trauma-informed therapy?
Trauma-informed therapy recognizes that past experiences can shape the nervous system, physical health, and relationships. A trauma-informed therapist paces the work so that people can process what happened to them without feeling overwhelmed, and integrates that history into every part of the counseling process
What therapy approaches does Meredith use?
Meredith draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, and trauma-informed approaches. She matches the approach to the person: structured skills work for some, open processing for others
Does Meredith offer telehealth sessions?
Yes. Meredith offers telehealth sessions to clients throughout North Carolina, along with in-person sessions at Montgomery Counseling Group’s Park Road office in Charlotte
How do I get started with Meredith Turner-Toth?
The first step is a free consultation. Montgomery Counseling Group schedules consultations by phone at (980) 949-8990 or through the online booking portal, and Meredith sees clients at the Park Road office in Charlotte and by telehealth across North Carolina.