Yeshira Benson, LMFTA

As a LMFT-A, I absolutely love the healing work that I share with others. I consider it an honor and blessing to walk with clients throughout their life journeys as it never ceases to simultaneously provide healing for me. Thank you for considering sharing your stories with me and allowing me to help honor them.

I obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English from Wofford College and continued my education while obtaining a Master of Marriage and Family Therapy from Converse University. As a student clinician, I was awarded as a 2021-2022 American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Minority Fellow, where I received intensive training alongside completing my graduate program’s curriculum. While serving as a mental health clinician in a post-graduate fellowship program, I continued acquiring intensive training in a clinical setting while working with various presenting issues as I accomplished my LMFT-A licensure. I am excited to obtain my LMFT licensure in North Carolina while expanding my expertise through private practice work, community outreach, and academia.

I provide evidence-based therapeutic services to diverse client populations within various settings. Utilizing a systemic approach, I collaborate with clients (individuals, couples, families and children) to provide thorough assessments, identify measurable goals and effective treatment plans to demonstrate best practices for addressing a variety of presenting issues/treatment interests (anxiety, depression, crisis management, cultural issues, emotionality, phase of life issues/life transitions, play therapy, PTSD, relational/intimacy concerns).

I understand that change is never final as our needs shift. As life continues, the restructuring of interactional patterns must include flexibility for family systems to be maintained. Throughout my practice, I apply systemic, emotionally focused, experiential, attachment, self-of-therapist, and psychoeducational techniques by modeling said flexibility. By understanding my position and how my position impacts the therapeutic process, I cultivate therapeutic spaces that expand to establish secure bases for clients to feel connected within their chosen family and empowered as individuals.