January Mental Health Check-In: Questions Everyone Should Ask Themselves (Before the Year Picks Up Speed)

January often brings stress, fatigue, and reflection. This gentle mental health check-in offers grounding questions and therapy support in New Bern and online.
How Therapy Helps with Depression in North Carolina and South Carolina

Depression can make even simple tasks feel overwhelming. Learn how therapy helps adults understand what’s underneath the heaviness and find steady, meaningful change through support in NC and SC.
Understanding Tricare for Therapy: What You Need to Know

Confused about TRICARE Prime vs Select? This guide explains how TRICARE works for therapy in New Bern, NC, including referrals, coverage, and Certified Non-Network Participating providers like Renewed Wellness Counseling.
Therapist Spotlight: Meet Emily Weeks, LCSWA

Meet Emily Weeks, LCSWA — a therapist serving teens and adults through in-person counseling in New Bern and virtual therapy across North Carolina. Emily specializes in trauma, attachment patterns, early motherhood, sleep issues, and chronic stress. Learn more about her background, clinical training, and what clients can expect when working with her.
What to Expect in Your First Therapy Session

Walking into (or logging onto) your first therapy session can bring a mix of feelings — relief, nerves, and curiosity about what comes next. In this post, we share what really happens in that first appointment, how to know if it’s a good fit, and how our Get Matched program helps make the process feel easier from the start.
Solution-focused Therapy

Solution-focused therapy makes the focus on your future. There is less emphasis on the “why or how?” and more on the “what’s next?” Looking forward can be a potent tool. Focusing on the future can give you freedom from the ties of your past, holding you back.
Meet the Therapist: Beth McErlean, LCSW — Providing Online Therapy in NC, VA & WI

Renewed Wellness Counseling is proud to welcome Beth McErlean, LCSW, to our team. Beth offers online therapy in North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin, supporting clients with anxiety, perfectionism, OCD, bipolar disorder, and family stress related to substance use or misunderstood mental health conditions. Her compassionate, evidence-based approach helps clients find calm, balance, and lasting change from wherever they are.
Finding Joy Again: Recovering From Depression

Even individuals who struggle with frequent depression can experience a life filled with joy and happiness.
EMDR Therapy: What It Is and How It Helps with Trauma

Whether you are currently in therapy, have friends or family who go to therapy, you may have her the term EMDR Therapy. EMDR stands for eye movement and desensitization reprocessing therapy. It can seem like a mouthful, but it can be extremely successful method in working through trauma. What is Trauma? Trauma comes in many […]
5 Signs You’re Experiencing Chronic Stress (and How to Manage It)

Stress is a normal part of life. There is a natural ebb and flow of higher and lower intensity events, but many individuals suffer from chronic stress. Episodic stress events can be positive as they generate a reaction in our body to react. These situations can be an important client meeting, an interview, or even […]