Petrini Counseling

RUDOLF HARALD PETRINI, MA, LCMHC, NCC

Where Pain and hurt meet care, kindness, compassion, and expertise.

My Mission and Therapeutic Approach

I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in the State of North Carolina, as well as a National Certified Counselor, with a Master of Arts degree in Professional Counseling from Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas (2001).

My passion is to provide individual clients and couples with a caring, compassionate and transparent approach to healing from deep losses/grief, traumatic experiences and other issues such as depression, anxiety, life transitions, chronic stress and relationship issues. My practice approach is rooted in various psychotherapeutic, neuroscientific and spiritually-based approaches (including evidence-based Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR) to assist with healing, decision-making, transformation and finding new and more hope-filled perspectives in life. I specialize in the application of EMDR to a large variety of conditions including trauma, PTSD, abuse, depression, anxiety, loss and grief, stress management, pornography/sex addiction, life transitions, pivotal decisions, life adjustments and performance enhancement. EMDR facilitates adaptive information reprocessing to assist the brain to rewire itself and to develop new neuropathways that facilitate healthy integration and provide new healing and adaptive perspectives on past, present and future circumstances. I also utilize Christian-Based Counseling interventions at the request of my clients, as well as Psychodynamic Therapy principles, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and principles of Narrative Therapy/Narrative Exposure Therapy. For work with couples, I utilize elements of the evidence-based Gottman approach, as well as Imago therapy.