Frequently Asked Questions

Rebel Care Counseling & Wellness, PLLC is a counseling service that provides mental health support to individuals in need.

You can book an appointment with Rebel Care Counseling & Wellness, PLLC by calling our office or by filling out an online booking form on our website.

Rebel Care Counseling & Wellness, PLLC offers a variety of counseling services, including individual therapy and group therapy.

Rebel Care Counseling & Wellness, PLLC is located in North Carolina. We offer online, Telehealth to individuals located anywhere in the state of North Carolina at the time of the appointment.

No,  we do not offer in-person sessions.

A 24 hour notice is required to cancel your appointment. If you do not give your therapist advance notice of cancellation, a missed appointment fee of $30 will be charged to your credit card on file.

Your first session will be a consultation. This is where we talk about what brought you into therapy, get to know each other, and discuss your goals for our time together. If you decide you want to continue with me as your counselor, then we will discuss how to proceed forward with preliminary directions and goals for the following session(s). Each session afterwards will revisit your goals and utilize evidence-based strategies to help you achieve them. These sessions can be a traditional talk session, utilize art or music, and other interactive activities that help you!

Friends and family are awesome! The difference between talking with your friends/family and a counselor, the counselor has a graduate degree in counseling, an internship under a licensed practicing counselor, and sat through the rigor of a board certified exam. Each of these components to becoming a counselor provides evidence-based strategies that help pull out underlying concerns, which helps bring insight to the presenting problem. Additionally, counselors are unbiased and work from a non-judgmental perspective.

Letters can mean degrees, certifications, and/or licenses earned. Here are some in the counseling field:

• LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
• LCMHCA - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate 
• NCC - National Certified Counselor
• MFT - Marriage and Family Therapist
• CAC or NCAC - Certified Addiction Counselor
• CADC - Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor
• LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• EMDR -  Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy
• CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• TF-CBT - Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Learn more about the mental health alphabet soup at GoodTherapy.com

The short answer...it depends. 

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Counseling is dependent on your goals and outcomes. Many factors go into progress and growth, and everyone's counseling timeline is different - we all have unique circumstances. For some, counseling is utilized during times of need, then paused until needed again. 

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Ultimately, you decide how long you stay in counseling, and if it is helping you. If we decide to pause, you are more than welcome to rejoin at a later date!

Counseling will assist with treating mental health by psychological means, while a psychiatrist is a medical doctor that diagnoses mental illness and prescribes medication(s). They can both be utilized at the same time. This would look like a person coming to counseling for talk-based therapy, then going to the psychiatrist to check on diagnoses and be prescribed medication(s), if needed.