About Ursula
Ursula Merritt is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger, addictions, relationship concerns, and major life changes. Ursula offers a calm, accepting presence and aims to make it easier to talk through difficult feelings.
Her practice emphasizes clear, practical steps people can use outside sessions. She draws on methods that help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with manageable actions.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal oriented, with small, doable tasks to try between meetings. Ursula seeks to create an affirming space for people from diverse backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBT. She listens for each person's values and priorities and works from there rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan.
Respect for the individual's story guides how goals are chosen and pursued. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy to shape sessions. That means conversations that focus on current problems, motivation for change, and practical solutions you can test right away.
Ursula helps people put strategies into place and checks in on what works and what needs adjusting. People who prefer direct, down-to-earth therapy often connect well with her style. She aims to help people reduce anxiety and stress, manage strong emotions like anger, and regain a sense of control during life transitions.
Approaches that translate to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and changing them through small behavioral experiments. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and depressive patterns because it gives concrete steps to try between sessions.Motivational Interviewing helps people build their own reasons for change by exploring ambivalence in a respectful way. This approach is often helpful when someone is struggling with addictions or low motivation and needs a boost in confidence to take the next step.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences, and will adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule and to continue progress even when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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