Your primary Therapist

In the meantime, a little about me,  my name  is Lauren Dornell-NealI I am a licensed professional counselor (LCMHC in North Carolina and LCPC in Maryland), a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS, NC), an Advanced Certified Community Health Worker (NC), and a Developmental Transitions Doula serving as both a DONA Birth Doula and an End-of-Life Doula. I am 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.

My career spans public service, community mental health, military family counseling, and private practice. From 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, I bring both breadth and depth of experience.

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

Feel free to contact me directly: Lauren@wbtcs.org

• 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