Marc Grimmett, PhD, HSP-P

Welcome
I celebrate, respect, and honor our essential needs for wellness, balance, peace, and connection. Just like healthy eating, exercise, spiritual practice, and supportive family and friends, therapy is a way of helping people to be healthy and to have harmonious and fulfilling lives. The process of living also brings seasons of transition, crisis, and despair. In such times, therapy is often a refuge of support, validation, healing, and hope. I welcome you to what I believe will be a meaningful therapeutic experience.
About Me
I am a Health Services Provider-Psychologist (#3145) in the state of North Carolina. I have a Master of Arts degree in Community Counseling from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of South Carolina Counseling and Human Development Center, where my training focused on marriage and family therapy, substance abuse treatment, sexual trauma, and crisis intervention. I have 26 years of professional experience in the field of mental health working with children, adolescents, adults, and families in different settings that include a group home for children and adolescents, public schools, university counseling centers, community mental health centers, a substance abuse treatment and homeless shelter, in-home counseling services, and private practice. I am also a professor of counselor education and the founder and director of the Community Counseling, Education, and Research Center at NC State University.
I was born and had my proud identity cultivated in historic Tuskegee, Alabama. I credit the Tuskegee community with preparing me to be an engaged and socially responsible world citizen. I now live in Raleigh, NC with my partner, Juliette, with whom I often work, and our two children and two cats (because I love my partner and children more than I do unscratched furniture). My favorite singer of all time is Sade. Every song on every album she has ever released touches my soul and I never tire of them. One of my favorites is titled, It’s Only Love That Gets You Through. I also believe that to be true in my own life. While some of my social identities include being an African-American, Black, cisgender, heterosexual, man, I identify much more with being a deeply feeling human being connected to all of life. I cannot ever remember a time when I was not affected by the mistreatment, pain, and suffering of others. I do not, however, seek to rescue or to save. My calling seems to be to join, listen, sit with, bear witness, and hold down (as we say in my community). Every day I wake up, I am grateful simply to be alive and want to make the most of it, whatever that may mean for me at any moment in time and space.
My style of therapy is integrative, holistic, relational, trauma-informed, feminist, and multicultural. I draw from diverse sources: experience, theory, education, research, best practices, reading, arts, travel, relationships, spirituality, movement; to provide care for your whole person—mind, body, and spirit; you within your environment; past, present, and future contexts. I seek to offer understanding, empathy, connection, validation, and affirmation as you are living your life. We can collaboratively, creatively, and authentically work together to help you identify, access, and use your personal gifts and beloved community to address issues you may be experiencing.
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