Your primary Therapist

Lauren Dornell-Neal is a licensed professional counselor (LPC in North Carolina and Maryland), a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS, NC), a Certified Advanced Community Health Worker (NC), and a Developmental Transitions Doula serving as both a DONA Birth Doula and an End-of-Life Doula. She is committed to meeting people where they are—whether through community-based support or telehealth—offering a listening ear, non-judgmental care, and opportunities for collaboration on well-being.

Her career spans public service, community mental health, military family counseling, and private practice. From her early work in women’s substance abuse recovery programs, to trauma-informed care in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, to serving military families locally and abroad, Lauren brings both breadth and depth of experience.

Through Well Being Transitions Counseling & Consulting Services (WBTCS), Lauren integrates counseling, addiction treatment, maternal health, and community health leadership. She is dedicated to holistic, culturally affirming care that strengthens individuals, families, and communities through life’s most important transitions.

• I am straightforward without being harsh
• Encouraging without applying pressure 
• Respectful of who you are and your goals.
• I maintain family-friendly scheduling
• ​Sessions are characterized by authenticity, insight, compassion, humor and a firm belief that you have what it takes to get where you need to be. 

• Help you mobilize gifts, talents,  experiences, skills, abilities, strengths, knowledge, to enhance resilience to life's transitions.
• Provide trauma-informed care
• Support your change, at your pace. 
• ​Provide a confidentiality
• Facilitate you in healthy communication, interpersonal relationships, stress reduction, mood improvement.
• Provide useful tools for problem solving.
• To live out loud, fully and authentically so that extensive counseling education is supported by active experience using counseling research relating to: healthy communications, boundary setting, self-advocacy, addressing work/career "undiscussables" with dignity and pride; drawing lines between "nice" and "good," making healthy choices internally and externally.
• Dedicating myself to community health work, dispensing public health information and continued education and current treatment research.   

• Life Transitions
• Grief/Loss
• Trauma Treatment
• Military/Veterans and families
• EAP Specialist Clinical Affiliate
• Management Consultant
• Certified Critical Incident Responder
• ​Addictions
• Managing Creative Blocks
• Gay and Lesbian issues
• Maternal community advocacy, well being, health (Full-spectrum doula services available through Doula Sol)
• Wellbeing/Healthy Lifestyle Coaching
• Parenting
• Couples
• Binge Eating Disorder and Pre Bariatric Counseling
• Career Counseling 
• Clinical Hypnosis
• Diversity and Inclusion Expert 
• Mentor for Counselors, Clinical Supervisor CADC 
• Maternal Health Community Worker
• Community Building/Social Justice Professonal 
• Community Well Being Projects
• Emotional Emancipation Group Facilitator (generational trauma) 
• Navigating the Challenges of Immigration/Second Generation Stress