Our Services
By Appointment Only
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Hours vary between clinicians. We have staff willing to accommodate our clients at night and on weekends. Please note these appointments do fill up quickly.
Individual Psychotherapy
Ascend Psychological Services, PLLC offers a safe, secure, and private place to discuss a variety of issues one-on-one with a trained, experienced, clinician. Rather than list all the issues we are equipped to handle, please contact Ascend at (704) 279-0626 to discuss if we can help.
Professional standards, as well as North Carolina law, assure that your confidentiality will be protected. However, there are exceptions to this rule: if you are a danger to yourself or others; or, if you are endangering the welfare of someone who is unable to protect themselves (for example, a child, or someone who is elderly, or intellectually disabled) then, we must break confidentiality and take steps to protect those who are endangered.
Currently, we offer the following one-on-one therapies:
With children (aged approximately from 2 to 10 years old), we conduct child-centered play therapy (CCPT) and parent-child relational therapy (PCRT). Please click on Christopher Lloyd or Tonda Childers bios to learn more about these therapeutic approaches.
With adolescents, we typically use a hybridized play therapy-talk therapy approach. For example, counselors might do structured therapeutic activities, or unstructured activities such as walking, shooting basketball, or playing a board game to help kids relax and open-up. Chris Lloyd, Alex Tuck, Beth Swiatek, Anya Dobbs, and Dr. Maxwell all work with adolescents. Please click on their bios to see if any of these counselors might be a good fit for you.
With adults, we typically do talk therapy. Research suggests that there are four main factors that lead to positive change: (1) 40% of change is attributable to client factors such as motivation, persistence, family support, faith, etc. (2) 30% is attributable to the trusting relationship that builds between the client and clinician, (3) 15% is attributable to placebo, hope, and expectancy, and finally, (4) 15% is attributable to model and/or techniques. Ascend counselors have different areas of training and expertise. All Ascend clinicians work with adults.
Please click on their bios to see if any of these counselors might be a good fit for you.
Group Psychotherapy
Family Counseling
Psychological Assessment
Standardized testing involves giving the same test(s), in the same way, to a large, representative group of people. Based on these results, “norms” are developed. By comparing an individual’s test score to the scores of many other people, it can be statistically determined if an individual’s score stands out as unusual, and by how much. This general concept is used to assess many psychological phenomena, including intelligence, academic achievement, personality, and different types of psychopathology.
- Adaptive behavior, Attention-deficit disorder (ADHD), Anxiety, Autistic Spectrum
- Disorders, Conduct Disorder, Depression, Intelligence (IQ), Learning Disabilities,
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Personality, and Self-concept
