Meet Brittany Coulsting, LCMHC: Real Talk, Real Tools, Real Healing
Finding a therapist is harder than it looks. The bios all start to blur together (warm, compassionate, client-centered, blah blah blah) and it’s genuinely difficult to figure out who’s actually going to be a good fit for you and what you’re carrying. You keep seeing the term “holding space,” and you have a nagging suspicion that simply means you’re going to end up being asked how that makes you feel for an hour while they nod at you like a bobblehead.
So let’s skip the vague and get into the real nitty gritty about Brittany.
Brittany’s Got the Credentials (The Impressive Kind)
First, let’s just run through the alphabet soup, because Brittany has earned it. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from UNC Pembroke, a Graduate Certificate in Addictions Counseling, and certifications that include Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), and (here’s a big one) Certified Partner Trauma Therapist (CPTT). She’s also fully trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), which is a research-backed, evidence-based approach for helping your nervous system actually process trauma instead of just white-knuckling it indefinitely.
That’s not just a wall of letters. That’s over five years of clinical experience working with folks across a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and life circumstances. In both mental health and substance use settings. She has seen some things, and she knows what she’s doing.
What Brittany Specializes In
Brittany works with people navigating betrayal trauma, relational trauma, anxiety, PTSD, abuse, identity challenges, women’s issues, and the kind of work-and-life stress that makes you want to take a ten-year nap and wake up as a different person in a different zip code.
If you’ve been lied to, cheated on, gaslit, or left trying to rebuild trust in yourself after someone blew it up, she is specifically trained for that. The betrayal trauma specialty isn’t an afterthought. It’s a focal point, and she brings the CPTT certification and EMDR training to back it up.
How Brittany Works
Here’s what makes Brittany different from the bobblehead scenario: she balances warmth with honesty. She will hear you. She will see you. And then, with compassion and zero judgment, she might gently challenge you, too. Because sometimes caring about someone means not letting them stay stuck in the story that’s been keeping them small.
She describes herself as a skill builder. That means therapy with Brittany isn’t just processing emotions into the void. You leave with actual tools. Concrete ways to manage what’s coming up in your body, your relationships, your nervous system. The goal is change that lasts, not just an hour a week where you feel temporarily better and then go back to the same patterns at home.
She draws from an attachment lens, meaning she helps you understand why your relationships look the way they do, tracing the threads back to where the beliefs about yourself and the world actually came from. She also pulls from CBT, EMDR, and Emotionally Focused Therapy, tailored to what you actually need.
What stands out about how she describes her work is the balance she holds. She’s genuinely warm and non-judgmental, and she’s also willing to be direct. She cares about her clients enough to gently challenge them when that’s what growth actually requires, even when it means exploring parts of yourself that feel uncomfortable or well-defended.
Ready to Get Started?
If you’re in North Carolina and you’re tired of white-knuckling it through the hard stuff, Brittany offers online therapy that meets you where you are. Literally.
You don’t have to have it figured out before you start. You just have to be willing to show up.