Better Health Starts Here.

The Stone Center for Counseling & Leadership is a private practice dedicated to providing professional counseling and consultation services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. We provide professional services in a safe, comfortable, home-like environment and are conveniently located in the Dilworth Neighborhood. Leadership & Life Coaching Sessions are offered by Leslie Petruk who is a Board Certified Coach and Consultant. The services we offer include: Counselor Supervision Business Coaching Leadership Coaching Life Coaching Individual Therapy Child/Play Therapy Family & Marriage Therapy Teen Counseling “4 Kids Sake” Parenting Programs Parent Coaching Parenting Workshops Social Skills Group for Children Separation/Divorce Program Counselor Training/Workshops

If you are reading this, you may very well be suffering and in need of support to live your life with less dread and more joy, less doubt and greater assurance, less anger and more self-control. If you are seeking services, you are already moving in the right direction by identifying the intent and developing the motivation needed to affect desired changes. A plethora of support services exist, and if you can receive the help you need from less-intensive and/or less-expensive sources, I encourage you to do so. Thankfully there are many self-help groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous, as well as the National Alliance on Mental Illness that can offer great support on the road to recovery. In fact, if you retain my services, I would most likely suggest that you and your family increase and refine your connections to the community, church, and support groups that promote positive growth and well being. Change is not only possible, it is inevitable. Too often we live our lives as though we are permanently enslaved and predestined to be wasted in self-inflicted pain. Most people have moments of clarity in which they understand and appreciate the ability to willfully change the causes and conditions of their lives, but sadly they are caught up in circumstances and surrounded by people who are deeply invested in the familiarity of suffering. As such, opportunities for change are unfulfilled

I specialize in providing cognitive-behavioral therapy for adults and children suffering from anxiety, OCD and OCD-related disorders such as trichotillomania. In my practice, you experience professional, caring therapy using the most up-to-date methods to conquer anxiety and OCD once and for all and get back to being you.

Sarah is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 14 years clinical experience working with children, individuals, couples and families using a systemic and internal family systems approach. Sarah holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Master's degree in Counseling from the College of Charleston and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Sarah had the honor of training under Dr. Lawrence LeShan, noted psychologist known as "the father of mind-body psychology." Sarah's specialty includes treating cancer patients and their caregivers. The field of psycho-social immunology continues to drive her research and continuing education.

Dr. Jodi is a sexual health specialist focussing on women and couple's issues. Treatment is generally short-term, 3-6 visits for topics including: Improving Sexual Desire and Desire incompatibility Enhancing Sexual Arousal Erectile and Ejaculatory issues Orgasm Sexual Pain Sex in long-term relationships Sex and medical conditions Menopause, hormones, aging and sex

Current practice includes play therapy with children & families in an outpatient private practice setting. I use a cooperative parenting model with divorcing families. I have previous experience on a crisis team, as well as child/adolescent/family work in agencies in VA & NC. I have facilitated groups in schools. I work from a child developmental perspective, and see children as young as 3 years old. I can easily refer clients to a therapist who may have different skills or a specialty niche (ex: treating autism or couples therapy) because I belong to several therapy networking groups. I participate in the "Give An Hour" program available to military veterans. I rent office space to a small number of therapists, and offer LCSW supervision on an individual basis. Renters and supervisees are responsible for establishing their own caseloads.