Therapy for People of Color in Greensboro, NC - Care That Sees Your Whole Experience
Culturally responsive therapy for BIPOC clients across the Triad - racial trauma, identity and belonging, family expectations, academic pressure, anxiety, and depression. You won't have to explain the basics.
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Therapy That Doesn't Ask You to Leave Half of It Outside
A lot of therapy asks People of Color to do extra work: explaining the family dynamic, justifying why a comment at work actually mattered, or quietly deciding to skip the racial part entirely because it's easier than being doubted. That's not therapy - that's another room where you're managing someone else's comfort.
Therapy at Fresh Breath Therapy is culturally responsive: your race, culture, family expectations, and faith are treated as part of your whole experience rather than background noise. You shouldn't have to spend paid sessions explaining why something landed the way it did.
We'll also be straightforward with you. Cultural humility means we ask rather than assume, and if something we say misses the mark we'd rather you tell us than manage us. If seeing a therapist who shares your background matters to you, say so at your consultation and we'll be honest about who's available.
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What We Support BIPOC Clients With in Greensboro
Sometimes the work is about race and identity directly. Sometimes it's anxiety or grief, and you simply want a therapist who won't make identity the awkward part.
Racial Trauma & Race-Based Stress
The cumulative weight of discrimination, bias, and vigilance - which shows up in the body and mood, not just in memory.
Microaggressions
Everyday slights that are hard to name and exhausting to carry, plus the second-guessing that follows every one of them.
Identity & Belonging
Bicultural identity, assimilation pressure, and never feeling fully at home in either space.
Intergenerational Patterns
How family history, migration, and inherited survival strategies shape what you feel allowed to want or say.
Family & Cultural Expectations
Duty, respect, and honour weighed against your own needs and boundaries - without treating your family as the enemy.
Code-Switching & Workplace Bias
The mental load of being "the only one," imposter feelings that aren't irrational, and deciding how much of yourself to bring to work.
Anxiety & Depression
Treated in the context of systemic stress, not in spite of it - because the environment is part of the clinical picture.
Self-Worth & Healing
Reconnecting with your identity, your culture, and your worth outside of what systems have told you about you.
Student & First-Generation Pressure
UNCG and NC A&T students carrying family expectations, financial strain, and the sense that stumbling isn't an option.
Evidence-Based, Culturally Grounded Approaches
Culturally responsive care isn't a separate set of techniques - it's proven approaches applied by someone who treats your context as part of the clinical picture.
Culturally Responsive Care
Race, culture, and family context aren't set aside to get to the "real" issue - they're part of understanding your whole experience, and they shape the work.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Work on the thought patterns feeding anxiety and self-doubt - while distinguishing what's a distortion from what's an accurate read on a biased environment.
Narrative Therapy
Separate your story from the one systems and stereotypes wrote for you, and reclaim authorship of how you understand yourself.
Trauma-Informed Care
Safety, choice, and pacing in every session - including for race-based stress and trauma that accumulates rather than arriving as one event.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Spend your limited energy on what actually matters to you rather than on managing everyone else's comfort or expectations.
Strengths-Based Practice
We start from your resilience, your community, and the cultural wisdom you already carry - not from a deficit model.
Your First Session: What to Expect
Why BIPOC Clients Choose Fresh Breath Therapy
Cultural Humility, Not Assumptions
Your therapist asks rather than guesses, and treats your read on a situation as data - not as something to correct.
Race Isn't Set Aside
We don't treat identity as a detour from the "real" work. It's part of understanding what's happening to you.
Range of Specialties
Three clinicians covering anxiety and depression, eating disorders, trauma, ADHD, and family and couples work.
Family Work Available
Holly Gammon, LMFT works with families as well as individuals - useful when cultural expectations and family dynamics are the core of it.
Insurance & Self-Pay
We accept major insurance plans including BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, and United Health. Call us to verify your specific benefits before your first appointment.
Telehealth Statewide
Privacy matters, especially in a tight-knit community. Connect from anywhere in North Carolina via secure video.
Serving Greensboro, High Point, Burlington & Guilford County
Our Greensboro therapy office is located at 600 Greenvalley Rd, Suite 206 - easily accessible from across Greensboro and nearby communities including High Point, Burlington, Kernersville, and Guilford County. Telehealth available statewide.
In Greensboro you'll work with Tracey Hagan, LCSWA, whose work covers anxiety, depression, and eating disorders using CBT and DBT; Holly Gammon, LMFT, with 10+ years across trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and family work; Monica Joyce, LCMHCA, who brings bipolar disorder treatment, couples therapy, and DBT-informed care; and Olivia Beaupre, LCMHCA, a counselor and school counselor offering a safe, welcoming space built on empathy and unconditional acceptance.
Each therapist is licensed, supervised, and committed to ethical, compassionate care. Sessions are available Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 7 PM.
Book Your Appointment →Meet the Greensboro Team
Meet the clinicians at our Greensboro office. Tell us your preferences at your consultation - including on background and approach - and we'll be honest about the best available fit.
Tracey Hagan
Warm, collaborative approach supporting children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders using CBT and DBT.
Holly Gammon
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 10+ years helping individuals, couples, and families through trauma, anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
Olivia Beaupre
Counselor and school counselor offering a safe, welcoming space built on empathy and unconditional acceptance for students and young adults.
Monica Joyce
Passionate about bipolar disorder treatment and couples therapy using Gottman Method principles, with DBT-informed skills for emotional regulation.
Serving These Needs Across Greensboro & the Triad
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a therapist of my own race or background?+
Not necessarily - though for some clients it matters a lot, and that's completely valid. What matters most is a therapist with genuine cultural humility who doesn't make you the teacher. Tell us your preference at your consultation and we'll be honest about who's available rather than talk you out of it.
Will I have to explain racism to my therapist?+
No. Race-based stress is treated as real and clinically relevant here, not as a perception to be corrected. Your therapist may ask about your specific experience - because your context is yours - but you shouldn't be doing unpaid education on your own therapy time. If something we say misses, name it; we'd rather adjust.
Is this only for certain communities?+
We welcome all People of Color - Black, Indigenous, Latino/a/x, Asian, South Asian, Middle Eastern, multiracial, and anyone else who identifies as POC. And plenty of clients come for anxiety or grief and simply want a therapist who won't make identity the awkward part.
What if therapy itself is frowned on in my family?+
That's common, and it's worth talking about rather than ignoring. Plenty of clients come without telling family, and we handle appointment reminders and scheduling accordingly. Your therapist can also help you think through what, if anything, you want to share and when.
How many sessions will I need?+
It depends on what you're working on. Focused concerns often improve meaningfully in 8 to 16 sessions; racial trauma, family patterns, and long-standing self-worth work usually take longer. Your therapist will give you an honest read after the initial assessment.
Do you serve High Point, Burlington, and Kernersville?+
Yes. Our Greensboro office on Greenvalley Rd serves clients from across the Triad, including High Point, Burlington, Kernersville, and Guilford County. Telehealth is also available anywhere in North Carolina.
You Deserve a Therapist Who Gets It
You already do enough explaining. Therapy should be the one place you don't have to. Start with a free 15-minute consultation, no commitment required.