Comprehensive Therapeutic Approaches for Growth & Healing
Talk therapy offers a powerful resource for people of all ages seeking not just help, but genuine growth. Far more than casual conversation, therapy creates a purposeful partnership between those motivated for change and professionals specialized in facilitating that transformation.
Our practice integrates several evidence-based approaches to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, grief & loss, life transitions,
Talk Therapy: The foundation of our work, providing a structured space for exploration, reflection, and developing new perspectives and coping strategies.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): A specialized approach that helps process traumatic memories and distressing experiences, allowing clients to heal from past wounds that may be affecting current functioning.
Brainspotting: This focused treatment identifies, processes, and releases sources of trauma, negative emotions, and physical pain through visual brain-body connections, often leading to profound healing.
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy: Working with horses provides unique opportunities for emotional growth, increased self-awareness, and improved relationship skills in a natural, experiential setting.
Play Therapy: Particularly effective for children, this approach uses the natural language of play and creativity to help younger clients express feelings, process experiences, and develop healthy coping mechanisms.
Areas of attention in therapy can include:
- Trauma and PTSD (including complex trauma)
- Grief and loss
- Relationship challenges (couples, family, workplace)
- Life transitions (career changes, retirement, becoming a parent)
- LGBTQ+ specific concerns
- Identity exploration and development
- Self-esteem and self-worth concerns
- Boundary-setting difficulties
- Cultural adjustment and acculturation stress
- Stress management and burnout
- Sexual health and intimacy issues
- Parenting challenges
- Spirituality and faith transitions or concerns
- Body image concerns
- Nutrition and wellness
- Sleep difficulties
- Chronic pain and illness management
- Perfectionism and people-pleasing tendencies
- Emotional regulation struggles
- Communication skills
- Work-life balance
- Existential questions and meaning-making
When you engage with us, you’ll experience:
Expert Guidance: Our therapists do more than listen—we bring trained perspective, offering evidence-based tools and practical strategies that make navigating life’s challenges more manageable.
Balanced Approach: We provide compassionate support while maintaining accountability, creating the perfect environment for meaningful progress and lasting change.
Safe Environment: Above all, we ensure therapy feels safe for everyone, regardless of background or circumstance. Your comfort matters to us. We offer both in-person sessions and HIPAA-compliant virtual therapy via Zoom. Some clients find it safer to meet from the privacy of their own home, while others benefit from experiencing the welcoming atmosphere of our physical space and the connection of in-person interaction. You choose what works best for you.
A Place for Everyone: We honor each person’s unique journey and background. Our doors are open to people of all backgrounds, identities and circumstances. We create space for those who have felt marginalized and unseen, as well as those navigating the complex expectations of their communities. Your story, identity, and experiences are welcomed here with respect and understanding.
Our practice is designed to serve a wide range of needs, though we do refer individuals with untreated thought disorders to specialized care better suited to their specific requirements.
Through these diverse therapeutic approaches, discover how professional guidance can transform challenges into opportunities for growth, helping you build the life you truly desire.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here…
Who We Serve and Services We Offer
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What can Mental Health Counseling do for you?
Our counselors are committed to helping you grow, heal and develop as a whole person, and as you do, you’ll become more authentic and truer to yourself and those around you. The holistic approach of Full Life seeks to integrate the body, mind, and spirit.
When you choose to connect with a Full Life counselor, it creates a new context and a new opportunity for you to have a skilled professional walk with you towards healing, making changes, finding acceptance, or becoming more self-aware and resilient. As you grow in personal insight, you’ll have better clarity, confidence and direction. Maybe that means getting more comfortable accepting things you cannot change or finding the courage to start making important changes.
We know you’re really busy and feeling pretty overwhelmed already. While it may seem indulgent to devote precious time and resources to getting help for yourself, you’ll find that counseling can really help you feel better and more equipped to tackle the challenges of the day with more confidence and courage.
Still uncertain?
Do any of these changes sound appealing?
- Knowing yourself more
- Feeling more confident
- Loving yourself more
- Having more patience
- Tolerating stress better
- Communicating effectively
- Parenting effectively and with confidence
- Taking good care of your body, mind and spirit
- Improving your relationships with those you love most
- Knowing when to set boundaries and how to enforce them
- Creating a deeper, more intimate connection with your partner
- Effectively using skills to self-soothe and relax to feel centered and calm
- Showing more empathy and compassion with yourself and others (including those who drive you crazy!)
- Clarifying problem-ownership and feeling more comfortable allowing others to take responsibility for their choices
- Consistently getting enough quality sleep to feel rested and energized for the day
Meet Our Mental Health Specialists
Anna Fleig, MDiv, MA, LCMHC, CST, Director of Finance & Strategic Planning
Have you ever felt like you weren’t being heard? That others don’t really understand what you are going through? Or perhaps they do listen, only to give you unsolicited advice in an attempt to be helpful. As a person who has created change in my own life through the benefit of counseling, I know how important it is for someone to truly listen and help you discover choices that work best for you and your loved ones.
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Britta Starke, MSW, LCSW, LCAS
Welcome to Full Life Counseling and to a journey for which I hope you find worth taking. My name is Britta Starke. I have had the pleasure of being in the behavioral health field for 25 years. I have worked with people of all ages from 6 – 80 years young. I have spent the last 13 years working with folks ages 14 and up.
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Jimmy Tunstall, MA, LCMHC, LCAS-A, CBST, Director of Clinical Operations
I feel passionate about helping you create the life you want. As a person in long-term recovery from addiction, my focus is helping you identify and resolve the blocks that may stand between you and your goals. I understand the challenges you face when coming to terms with your addiction and I am dedicated to helping people like you find a better way to live.
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Leigh Zick Dongre, PhD, LCMHC-S, LCAS, CCS
The path to living more fully is an adventure, one I believe has transformed my own life. Each day I am honored and privileged to join people along a path of recovery, self-exploration, and healing. I have helped people break through the obstacles that seem to be holding them back in life. My role as your counselor is to be a knowledgeable, genuine, and empathetic guide along this journey and provide a safe and supportive environment to do so. I strive to help people live their best lives, by reaching more authenticity and self-awareness, and making behavioral changes.
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Rebecca Rankin, MA, LCMHC
Life often throws us curve balls and we can be faced with different forks in the road. We make the best choices we can in these moments, even if the outcome is not quite what we expected. Beauty often comes from our willingness to be vulnerable and own our stories even when they can be quite difficult. It is in these times that I want to be a part of your life’s story that enables you to find moments of acceptance and peace.
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Cathey Floyd, MA, LCMHC
I love working with individual, couples and family counseling who have experienced loss of loved ones, substance use disorders, life transitions such as divorce and career changes, aging, stress, anxiety, and depression. I also offer grief counseling for children ages 5-12.
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Amanda J. Beck, MA, LCMHC, NCC
Finding a counselor you love is like finding a great pair of jeans. Fit matters. Or if you’re a high achiever, maybe it’s like finding business clothes that feel like your own skin or like your favorite pair of jeans instead of a costume. It matters to me that we are a good fit for working together in therapy, because I know that personal exploration, growth and healing can only happen in safe spaces with safe people.
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Brittany Corcoran, LCMHC
Hey. I’m Brittany Corcoran, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and a person who believes in the core resiliency, power, and goodness of humankind. Practicing at Full Life is a sort of homecoming for me. While earning my Masters in Counseling at Wake Forest University...
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Sara Bailey, PhD, LCMHC
Stories are powerful. As a counselor, I believe that the stories we tell ourselves are the most powerful of all. My greatest privilege is to journey with my clients as they share their stories with me, sometimes speaking them aloud for the very first time, in the sacred space of the therapeutic counseling relationship.
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Siedah Miller, MA, LCMHC
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus
This quote harnesses the foundation of my therapeutic process. I believe within us; we encompass exactly what we need to thrive while accomplishing our deepest desires. Through developing healthy coping skills and challenging cognitive distortions, I believe anything can be attained.
Liora Shir, MSW, LCSW (NC & FL), RLTC, LCAS
I specialize in guiding individuals, families, and caregivers through unique obstacles toward self-discovery and recovery. My passion lies in helping people uncover their inner strengths and achieve their recovery goals with confidence.
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Katie Nail, MS/Ed.S, LCMHC
Since 2007, I have had the honor of working with a diverse clientele of youth and their families from the elementary to the high school setting in a school counseling position. As a school counselor, I have worked with countless young people and their families as they navigate the struggles that come with life. Working in a public school has also afforded me the opportunity to understand the experience of a school employee.
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Sarah Marsh, MA, NCC, LCMHC
As I have studied and worked in the mental health field, I have observed the healing power of listening to someone’s story and helping them to find words to create their own story. Indeed, I find there is great impact within the occupation of “counselor”, but even more so as a counselor/ storyteller. This is what I aim to be for those who I sit with.
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Daniel Dominguez - MA, LCMHC-A
Whatever has disconnected you from yourself, I believe there is hope for healing, and it’s my belief that it begins with reconnecting to your true self. I am passionate about listening and creating a safe space for this process. Thank you for letting me join your journey.
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Becky Harman, MS, LCMHC-A, LCAS-A
Hi, I’m Becky (she/her). I’m a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate (LCMHC-A) who works with adults seeking support for a range of mental health concerns, including trauma, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, adjustment challenges, and life transitions. I also support individuals navigating substance use disorders and recovery, particularly when substance use is connected to trauma, stress, or emotional overwhelm.
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Janay Whittaker, LPC (GA), LCMHC (NC), NCC, MA, MDiv
I view counseling as a laboratory in the form of a relationship. We typically enter into this relational lab when we desire growth and change, and it gives us a place to experiment and practice. To help you in this lab, I will operate as a curious companion and a compassionate accountability partner. I believe it is through connection to self, others, and the world that growth, change, and conditions for thriving occur; I’m happy to be just one such connection.
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Skye Harvey, MHS, LCMHC-A
I love helping adults who are in transition, processing changes, and/or who may be dealing with difficult life circumstances, unhelpful or destructive habits and mindsets, and more. Sometimes we walk the path of life and wake up to a landscape we hadn’t planned for - it can be hard to reorient. We may not know where to begin, but therapy can help us make sense of the map.
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The journey begins with you taking the first step, then a Full Life counselor walks with you – sometimes leading, sometimes following, sometimes beside you – but confidently with you on the journey.
Complementary Services can help bolster talk therapy outcomes and improve everyday coping skills.
About Our Practice
In addition to substance use and recovery-related services, Full Life offers counseling for issues as diverse as anxiety, depression, sexuality, spirituality, grief, life transitions, and marital and couples challenges. Clinicians use a variety of techniques to address these, including, but not limited to EMDR, brainspotting, equine-assisted psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, ExRP, Internal Family Systems, and DBT. Other staff additions have allowed us to broaden our scope to provide care for those seeking a deeper spiritual life, healing and connections in the area of sexuality in recovery, chronic pain and trauma work.
Fees & Insurance
Clinical staff bill according to their credentials and experience using a tier system. Please review the Fee Schedule and/or Staff pages for more information. Some counselors’ services may be eligible for insurance reimbursement, while others’ services are not reimbursable. This information is also posted in the Full Life lobby.