Evidence-based therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Serving individuals, couples, and families in Wake Forest, NC and online throughout North Carolina.
Helping children, teens, and families grow, heal and thrive.
Many people come to therapy feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, or emotional overwhelm, our team is here to create a safe, supportive space where you feel heard and understood.
We strive to create a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental environment where every client feels heard and understood. Seeking support can feel difficult, but you don't have to face life's challenges alone.
Playful Minds Therapy & Wellness Center specializes in helping children, teens, and adults navigate anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and emotional challenges. Through evidence-based approaches including play therapy and faith-integrated counseling, our therapists help clients build coping skills, resilience, and lasting change.
Services Offered
We work with children, adolescents, adults, and families navigating life's challenges. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship difficulties, or feeling stuck and uncertain about moving forward, we're here to help. We specialize in evidence-based approaches tailored to your unique needs, including play therapy for children and faith-integrated counseling when desired. Together, we'll build practical coping skills, resilience, and lasting change.
Child & Adolescent Therapy
Therapy designed for children, preteens, and adolescents navigating anxiety, mood concerns, OCD, behavioral challenges, life transitions, and developmental needs in a safe and supportive environment.
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Individual Therapy (Adults)
A space where you don't have to hold it all together. One-on-one therapeutic support tailored to your unique needs and goals.
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Couples Therapy
Strengthen your relationship through guided communication, conflict resolution, and deeper understanding. Work together to build trust, intimacy, and a stronger partnership.
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Family Therapy
Heal family dynamics and improve communication patterns. Address conflicts, strengthen bonds, and create a more harmonious home environment for all family members.
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Groups & Workshops
Connect, learn, and grow through therapeutic groups and wellness workshops designed to build skills, increase self-awareness, and foster meaningful connection.
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Clinical Supervision & Professional Development
Collaborative support for emerging clinicians seeking to strengthen clinical skills, develop their professional identity, and grow as confident, ethical practitioners.
Learn moreCompassionate, Evidence-Based Therapy for Life's Challenges
Creating a safe space where you feel heard, supported, and empowered to heal
Our mission is to provide compassionate, culturally responsive, and evidence-based mental health care that empowers children, adolescents, adults, and families to heal, grow, and thrive. Through a collaborative, trauma-informed approach, we create a safe and supportive environment where every client can build resilience, strengthen emotional well-being, and achieve lasting, meaningful change.
Trauma-Informed Care
At Playful Minds Therapy & Wellness Center, we recognize that life experiences can shape how we think, feel, and respond to the world. Our trauma-informed approach creates a safe, supportive, and empowering environment where healing can occur at your own pace. We prioritize trust, collaboration, and emotional safety while helping clients build resilience, develop healthy coping skills, and regain a sense of control. Whether you have experienced significant trauma or are navigating everyday stress, we meet you with compassion and without judgment.
Evidence-Based Care
We are committed to providing high-quality care grounded in research and clinical expertise. Our therapists integrate proven therapeutic approaches tailored to each client's unique needs, goals, and stage of life. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all model, we personalize treatment to help clients develop practical skills, improve emotional well-being, and create lasting change.
Strengths-Based & Collaborative
We believe every person possesses strengths, resilience, and the capacity for growth. Therapy is a partnership where we work together to identify your goals, build upon your existing abilities, and develop new strategies for overcoming challenges. By focusing on strengths while addressing areas of concern, we help clients gain confidence, increase self-awareness, and create meaningful progress.
Culturally Responsive Care
Every person's story is unique. We value and respect the diverse backgrounds, identities, cultures, beliefs, and lived experiences that shape each individual. Our therapists strive to provide inclusive, culturally responsive care where clients feel heard, understood, and respected. We are committed to creating a welcoming environment that honors each person's values while delivering compassionate and individualized treatment.
Creative & Developmentally Appropriate Care
Healing looks different for everyone. We use developmentally appropriate and creative interventions to meet clients where they are, particularly when working with children and adolescents. Through play, expressive activities, mindfulness, and other engaging therapeutic techniques, we help clients explore emotions, strengthen coping skills, improve communication, and foster personal growth. Our goal is to make therapy meaningful, engaging, and effective for individuals across the lifespan.
Faith-Integrated Care (available upon request)
When faith is meaningful to you, we can integrate spiritual values and beliefs into our work together. This honors the whole person you are.
Let's Connect
Whether you're ready to schedule or have questions about therapy, we welcome your call. We offer in-person sessions in Wake Forest and online sessions throughout North Carolina.
PHONE
+1-252-516-5916LOCATION
335 S. White St., Wake Forest, NC 27587
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