Therapists on Staff at Cary Counseling Center
Bryce Kaye, Ph.D.
Author of The Marriage First Aid Kit
Dr. Kaye is a psychologist with a license to practice in North Carolina. He obtained his license in 1979 after receiving his masters and doctorate from the University of Illinois with a specialty in personality. He completed his psychological internship at the Phoenix Veterans Administration Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976. From 1977 through 1983 he was the Director of Outpatient Services for Wake County Alcoholism Treatment Center. While there, he authored and directed a federal research grant that developed the outpatient program. He also researched the effectiveness of treatment and developed the family program as a part of his research grant. In 1984, Dr. Kaye started Cary Counseling Center which later became incorporated under the name Allied Psychological Services, PA in 1992. He has had years of experience in performing individual psychotherapy, marriage counseling, and substance abuse counseling. He is also a trained and certified EMDR therapist, having received certification by the EMDR International Association.
Dr. Kaye is currently the director of Cary Counseling Center and Oriental Counseling Center. He has researched and developed several types of therapies in addition to providing therapy for individuals and couples.
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Jill Coghlan-Uttridge, LCSW
Jill Coghlan-Uttridge is a clinical social worker licensed to practice in North Carolina. She received her Masters degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1996. For the next nine years she conducted therapy in Denver, Colorado, specializing in adolescent and family work. She worked in the areas of juvenile justice, social services and offender specific treatment. While living and working in Denver she chaired a committee overseeing child abuse investigations and participated in an organization to examine the continuity of care for sexual abuse cases. Jill has been trained in offender specific therapy, victim clarification, family treatment and couples work. She has also treated individual women struggling with issues of depression, grief and self-esteem. Jill has worked with a wide array of clients identifying a variety of issues. New to the Raleigh area, Jill will now be available to see adolescents, individuals, couples and families at the Cary Counseling Center.
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Angeline Woodson, Ph.D., LPC
Dr. Angeline Martin Woodson is a North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselor. She is also a National Certified Counselor. Dr. Woodson received her bachelor’s of science degree from North Carolina State University in 1989. She received her master’s of science degree from East Carolina University in Child Development and Family Relations in 1992. She received her doctorate in Human Services with a focus in Professional Counseling from Capella University in 2002.
Dr. Woodson has worked as a Mental Health Therapist for over 15 years specializing in diversity and multicultural counseling. She has vast experience in working with children and adolescences. She has spent over 10 years of her career working with addictions, adult survivors of dysfunction, grief and bereavement issues, parenting issues, self esteem issues, transitional issues, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and victims of domestic violence. Dr. Woodson is a veteran as well as the spouse of a retired Marine. She has a host of experience working with military personnel and their families.
In addition to therapy, Dr. Woodson has spent ten years as a college professor in the area of Early Childhood Education. She has taught at Central Texas College, University of Maryland, Central Carolina Community College, Mount Olive College and University of Phoenix. Her research interests are infant-toddler mental health, children reared by same gender parents, socio-emotional development of children and holistic approach to child care. In addition to research, Dr. Woodson presents at numerous professional conferences and workshops.
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Maureen White, LCSW
Maureen E. White is a Clinical Social Worker with a license to practice in North Carolina. She received her Master’s Degree along with a Minor in Alcohol Studies from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.
Maureen spent a year providing psychotherapy in a Family Service Agency. She also interned at a hospital based Alcohol Treatment Unit. Before becoming a M.S.W., Maureen was a teacher of grades two through eight, including special education classes in both urban and suburban environments.
For the past ten years Maureen has been at Cary Counseling performing individual psychotherapy and marriage counseling. Her specialties are Adult Children of Alcoholics, Marriage Counseling, Depression, Anxiety, Grief/Loss Issues, and helping Sexual Abuse Survivors thrive.
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Mary Bratton, LPC
Mary Bratton is a North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselor, a nationally certified Master Addiction Counselor, and a North Carolina Certified Clinical Addictions Specialist and Certified Clinical Supervisor. She received her master's degree in Counseling from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. She has additional post-graduate credit in the areas of diagnosis, assessment, intervention, and treatment of mental and emotional disorders from Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio.
Mary has had ten years experience as a family therapist and family interventionist at a major inpatient/outpatient chemical dependency treatment center in Toledo, Ohio. For nine years prior to her recent move to North Carolina, Mary maintained a private practice at Harbor Behavioral
Healthcare in Toledo, Ohio. She specializes in treating adult survivors of abuse and dysfunction, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, grief issues, substance abuse. and eating disorders.
Mary is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and workshops. She is the author of numerous journal articles on various aspects of family and survivor therapy. She is also the author of A Guide to Family Intervention (Health Communications, Inc., 1987). Her second book, From Surviving to Thriving: A Therapist's Guide to Stage II Recovery for Survivors of Childhood Abuse (The Haworth Press, Inc.), was released in 1999.
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