Matthews holds onto its small-town heart — the historic downtown, the farmers market, the family festivals — even as Charlotte grows up around it. It's a town people choose for family life. And family life, for all its sweetness, is where some of the hardest seasons happen: a marriage running on fumes through the parenting years, the sandwich-generation squeeze of raising kids while caring for aging parents, grief when a family loses its anchor.
We're a family-centered practice, and we serve Matthews the modern way: through secure video telehealth, available anywhere in North Carolina. Ginny Porowski, LCMHC brings more than 30 years of experience — plus a nursing background that's especially valuable for caregivers — to a private video session you can take from home, without arranging a sitter or fighting Independence Boulevard.
Matthews families most often reach out about:
- Marriage & couples counseling — tending the marriage underneath the family calendar.
- Grief & loss counseling — support for loss, including the long goodbye of a parent's decline.
- Anxiety counseling — for the parent who lies awake doing everyone else's worrying.
- Depression therapy — when the caretaker of everyone else quietly runs dry.
- Narcissistic abuse recovery — untangling from a difficult parent or family system, even in midlife.
If faith is woven through your family's life, Christian counseling is available and heartfelt here; if it isn't, you'll receive the same skilled, compassionate clinical care. Sessions are $160 for 50 minutes (couples $170), starting with a free 10-minute phone consultation. Superbills and HSA/FSA are supported.