Beyond Therapy

PhD, NCC is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development’s Counselor Education Program at NC State University. Her research interest focus on stories and experiences of violence and trauma within Black communities especially for community members occupying multiply marginalized positions; healing and pleasure praxis for survivors and victims of interpersonal violence; and cultivating a social justice based counseling training curriculum that embodies the lived realities, strengths and power within communities historically disenfranchised and oppressed. Additionally, Dr. Parker focuses on how mediums such as storytelling can inform counseling interventions, education, training and future research within different communities historically overlooked by academia.

(she/they), PhD, MS, CPSS, CRC, LCMHC, NCC has a masters in Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling from UNC Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in Rehabilitation Counseling and Administration from East Carolina University. They have served as a member of multiple divisions of the American Counseling Association including Association for Counselor Education and Supervision; American Rehabilitation Counseling Association; Counselors for Social Justice; Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities. They are currently a member of Pitt County, NC; Board of Directors for the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI). Dr Cea has been a Certified Peer Support Specialist since 2015 and has volunteered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention since 2012 and NAMI since 2016. They expressed symptoms of anxiety at age 4 and were later diagnosed with SPMI, which has deeply informed their clinical practice and advocacy work. They are currently owner of Panacea Mental Wellness, a private practice in Pitt County and teach in the Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies at East Carolina University.

MS, EDS, LCMHC, LMBT is the Director of the Embodied Recovery Institute which provides training to interdisciplinary eating disorders treatment teams in trauma-informed, attachment-based and somatically integrative approaches to eating disorders recovery. Rachel is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She is also a Licensed Bodywork and Massage therapist with advanced training and 30+ years of experience in diverse somatic therapies. Rachel has extensive experience as a teacher and presenter, focusing on accessing the body’s unique capacity to give voice to the subconscious and to lay the foundation for healing and maintaining psychological and physical health. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel specializes in working with people exploring recovery from trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.