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Charlotte Therapy Associates, PLLC
Charlotte, NC · SouthPark · Online in NC & SC
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
Charlotte Therapy Associates is a multi-clinician practice in SouthPark providing individual, couples, family and maternal mental health care, in person, or securely from anywhere in North and South Carolina.
Accepting new clientsIn-network: BCBS PPO & AetnaEvenings until 8 PMSe habla español
Founded by
Ashleigh Bryan, LMFT
Perinatal Mental Health Certified · 17+ years in practice
- Our team
- Multi-clinician
- Combined experience
- 60+ years
- Licensed to serve
- NC & SC
- Self-pay from
- $155
LMFTs and licensed counselors, each with a defined specialty
Across the practice; our founder has practiced since 2008
In person in Charlotte, online statewide
Package rates available for 3, 6 and 12 sessions
01Why people come to us
Supportive, but also effective. Compassionate, but also goal-oriented.
Most people who reach out are not in crisis. They are functioning, holding down a job, raising children, showing up. They are also exhausted, or stuck in the same argument for the fourth year running, or lying awake at 3am with a mind that will not switch off.
We do not view clients through the lens of a diagnosis. We see capable people who have run into something that the strategies they already have cannot solve. The work is to understand the pattern underneath, and to build something that actually holds.
That means our sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. A good hour should leave you feeling heard. It should also leave you with something you did not walk in with.
- Understand the patterns keeping you stuck
- Build emotional awareness and real resilience
- Improve communication and the relationships that matter
- Create lasting change, not just insight
02Services
Care built around the thing you are actually facing.
Nine ways of working together, each with its own trained clinicians. Not sure which fits? Tell us what is going on and we will point you to the right one.
- 01
Individual Therapy
A space to slow down, name what you are carrying, and leave with something you can use.
- 02
Couples Therapy
Find the pattern underneath the fight and change it, using EFT and the Gottman Method.
- 03
Premarital Counseling
Validated assessments and structured conversations, before the habits set.
- 04
Family Therapy
Treat the household system rather than assigning one person to be the problem.
- 05
Maternal & Postpartum
Maternal mental health care for postpartum depression, anxiety, birth trauma and loss, from a PMH-C certified specialist.
- 06
Therapy for Women
For the mental load, the guilt reflex, and the identity that got buried under the roles.
- 07
Therapy for Men
Practical, skill-based work for stress, anger, burnout and the things you do not say out loud.
- 08
Therapy for Fathers
Support built for dads, new fathers, paternal postpartum depression and everything after.
- 09
Online Therapy
Secure video sessions anywhere in North or South Carolina. Nothing to download.
What we treat
The concerns clients bring us most. Each one has a clinician who has trained in it specifically.
- Anxiety and panic
- Depression and low mood
- Adult ADHD and executive function
- Perfectionism and high achievement
- Trauma and PTSD
- Grief, loss and life after loss
- Pregnancy, postpartum and motherhood transitions
- Relationship and marriage challenges
- Men's mental health, fatherhood and emotional wellness
- Life transitions and identity
03Our therapists
A team of specialists, not generalists.
We are deliberately not a practice where everyone does a bit of everything. Each clinician has trained deeply in something, which means we can match you properly rather than approximately.
04 / Getting started
Three steps, and the first one takes about four minutes.
We know the reaching out is the part people postpone for months. We have tried to make it as low-friction as we can.
Start here- 01
Reach out
Send the form or call us. Tell us roughly what is going on, whether you have a preference on clinician or format, and when you are generally free.
- 02
Get matched
We will recommend the clinician whose training fits what you described, not whoever has the next opening. If insurance is involved we will verify your benefits first.
- 03
Start
Intake paperwork happens online beforehand so your first session is a conversation rather than admin. Most people leave it with a plan and something to try.
05Rates & insurance
Clear numbers, before you book.
We are in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO plans and Aetna. Everything else is out-of-network, and we will give you a superbill to submit. Self-pay clients get package discounts and no diagnosis on record.
- Initial intake session
- $185
- Individual therapy
- $155
- Couples & family therapy
- $170
06Articles
Written by our clinicians, not by a content mill.
Stress & Burnout
Burnout or Depression? How to Tell the Difference
They share a great deal of surface area, exhaustion, cynicism, a flatness where motivation used to be. Telling them apart matters, because the treatments diverge.
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Women's Mental Health
The Mental Load: Why You Are Exhausted by Things Nobody Can See
It is not the dishes. It is knowing the dishes need doing, tracking whether they have been done, and holding the cost of asking.
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07Where we work
A SouthPark office, and the whole of two states.
5200 Park Rd., Ste 219, Charlotte, NC 28209, free parking, discreet entrance. Everything else happens over secure video.
- SouthParkOur office is here
- Dilworth~10 minutes from East Blvd
- Myers Park~8 minutes from Queens Rd
- Ballantyne~20 minutes via I-485
- Matthews & Mint Hill~25 minutes via Monroe Rd
- South End~10 minutes via South Blvd
- Uptown~15 minutes from Uptown
- South Charlotte & Pineville~15 minutes via Park Rd
- North CarolinaStatewide by telehealth
- South CarolinaStatewide by telehealth
Get started
Taking the first step is the hardest part.
Tell us a little about what is going on and we will match you with the right clinician, usually within a few days.
In-network with BCBS PPO & Aetna · Self-pay from $155 · Evenings until 8 PM