Taylor Banner, LCSWA | Montgomery Counseling Group
Holistic Relationship and Family Therapy with Taylor Banner, LCSWA
Compassionate, relationship-focused therapy in Charlotte for individuals, couples, and families navigating life transitions and emotional challenges.
LCSWA, B.A. in Psychology from East Carolina University, MSW from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Taylor Banner, LCSWA: Relationship Therapist in Charlotte, NC
Relational patterns often develop as a way to find safety or connection, even when those patterns eventually lead to friction or distance. When you find yourself stuck in the same circular arguments or feeling a growing silence in your home, it is not a sign of failure. It is a sign that the current way of relating has reached its limit.
Taylor Banner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate at Montgomery Counseling Group. She works with individuals, couples, and families navigating the complexities of life transitions and the long-term impact of relational stress. If you’re looking for a relationship therapist in Charlotte, NC who works from a place of genuine curiosity rather than judgment, Taylor’s approach may be a good fit.
Shifting Relational Dynamics
Taylor’s work is grounded in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) and Structural Family Therapy (SFT). Rather than simply “fixing” a problem, these approaches look at the architecture of the family or couple.
- Understanding Patterns: Identifying the repetitive loops that lead to conflict or withdrawal.
- Building Secure Bonds: Moving beyond surface-level communication to address the underlying needs for trust and safety.
- Navigating Transitions: Supporting families through the structural shifts of divorce, relocation, or developmental changes in children and adolescents.
- Adaptive Strategies: Replacing protective behaviors that cause distance with new ways of seeking connection.
A Research-Based Approach to Connection
Communication is rarely about the words spoken: it is about the emotional safety required to hear them. Taylor helps you distinguish between constructive dialogue and the survival-based reactions that often take over during high-stress moments. By focusing on the emotional climate of the relationship, you can begin to rebuild a foundation of mutual respect and understanding.
This is the work Taylor brings as a family therapist in Charlotte, NC: not pointing out what went wrong, but helping you and your family understand why certain patterns made sense, and what it looks like to build something different. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside EFFT and SFT, which means the work addresses both the thoughts driving behavior and the relational patterns holding them in place.
What to Expect Working with Taylor
Taylor approaches each client with what she describes as a commitment to creating a space where people feel truly heard. That means no scripted advice, no assigning blame. Instead, sessions focus on the emotional climate in the room — what each person needs, what each person fears, and where those two things are colliding.
Her background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from East Carolina University and a Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She works with teenagers managing anxiety and emotional regulation, adults navigating life stressors, couples facing communication breakdown, and families working through structural change.
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Why Choose Therapy with Taylor?
Taylor Banner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate at Montgomery Counseling Group in Charlotte, NC. She works with individuals, couples, and families, with a focus on communication, trust, and emotional connection. Taylor is trained in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Structural Family Therapy, approaches that help people understand relational patterns and build stronger, more secure bonds. She offers in-person sessions in Charlotte and telehealth services throughout North Carolina.
Her therapeutic strategy emphasizes:
- Teaching communication skills that promote understanding and respect
- – Helping clients identify and address unproductive relationship dynamics
- Encouraging couples to spend intentional, quality time together
- Supporting clients in rebuilding trust and emotional connection
- Facilitating the exploration of unmet needs within relationships
Frequently Asked Questions
Who works with Taylor Banner at MCG?
Taylor works with individuals, couples, and families in Charlotte and across North Carolina. Her practice is focused on those navigating relationship distress, the complexities of parenting, and individual growth within a family context. She’s experienced as both a couples therapist in Charlotte and a family therapist in Charlotte, NC, which means she can work with the relationship as a whole or with individual members within it.
How does family therapy address conflict?
Family therapy at MCG does not look for a villain in the family system. Instead, Taylor helps the family identify the “dance,” or pattern, they are caught in. By changing the steps of that dance, the entire family can find a more stable and supportive way of functioning.
What is Emotionally Focused Family Therapy?
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) is a research-supported approach that works with the emotional bonds between family members. The goal is not conflict resolution in the surface-level sense. It is helping each person in the family feel more secure in their relationships, so that the defensive patterns driving conflict have less fuel. Many families find that once emotional safety increases, communication improves without needing to address every individual argument directly.
What is Structural Family Therapy?
Structural Family Therapy (SFT) looks at the organization of a family: who holds what roles, where boundaries are too rigid or too loose, and how those structures affect each member. It’s particularly useful during transitions, such as a divorce, a child moving into adolescence, or blending two families together. Taylor uses it to help families identify what’s shifted and what new structure might serve everyone better.
What communication issues does Taylor work with?
Taylor works with couples and families dealing with circular arguments, emotional withdrawal, breakdowns in trust, and the kind of distance that builds slowly until it feels permanent. She also helps individuals who are working on how they show up in their close relationships, whether that means setting clearer limits, expressing needs more directly, or understanding their own patterns of protection.
Does Taylor offer telehealth?
Yes. While Taylor sees clients in person at the MCG office on Park Road in Charlotte, she also provides secure telehealth sessions to individuals and families throughout North Carolina.
How do I know if Taylor is the right fit?
If you’re navigating relationship stress, a major family transition, or a pattern in your relationships you can’t seem to shift on your own, Taylor’s focus as a relationship therapist in Charlotte, NC may be directly relevant to what you’re carrying. The best way to find out is through a consultation, where you can get a sense of how she works before committing to ongoing sessions.