111 East Charlotte Avenue, Suite C, Mount Holly, NC 28120
Beyond Phoenix Counseling, PLLC
Move Beyond Traditional Talk Therapy and Experience Healing and Growth!!!
About Beyond Phoenix Counseling
Our Mission
At Beyond Phoenix Counseling, our mission is to empower individuals and couples to navigate life's challenges through effective mental health counseling, including EMDR therapy, so they can learn, grow, and overcome relationship issues to reach their fullest potential!
Meet the Therapist
Margaret C. Carpenter, MA, LCMHCA, NCC
EMDRIA Trained EMDR Therapist
Margaret is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate who specializes in mental health counseling. She earned her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Liberty University in May of 2025. Despite her recent graduation, Margaret brings a wealth of experience from her practicum and internships. Additionally, she holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and education from Liberty University. Margaret is passionate about helping clients tackle life challenges, including trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, ADHD, and relationship issues. She enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families. To enhance her effectiveness with couples, Margaret has completed level 1 of the Gottman Method Couples Training and is a certified Save Your Marriage Before It Starts (SYMBIS) facilitator, applying these insights in her pre-marital counseling sessions. Her eclectic therapeutic approach includes EMDR therapy for processing trauma and Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which explores the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. When asked what she loves about being a counselor, Margaret expressed, “I love being a counselor because it is an honor, privilege, and gift to give clients a safe space to go where they will be heard and not judged.”
Pricing-In Network with Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Aetna
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling
Individual Session - $160
Individual counseling provides a private, supportive space to work through personal challenges, manage difficult emotions, and create meaningful change. At Beyond Phoenix Counseling, we help individuals in Mount Holly, Belmont, Gastonia, and Charlotte, and surrounding communities navigate concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions.
Our approach is personalized to your unique needs and goals. Together, we can explore what may be holding you back, develop healthier coping strategies, improve emotional well-being, and help you feel more confident moving forward.
If you’re looking for a compassionate individual therapist in Mount Holly, NC, we’re here to provide professional support in a comfortable, judgment-free environment.
Couples Counseling
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling
Couples - $160
It hurts to feel lonely when you’re sitting right next to the person you love. Maybe the warmth has drifted away, or perhaps every conversation feels like navigating a minefield. You want to connect, but somehow, the message keeps getting lost in translation.Please know that what you are experiencing is incredibly common—and it doesn’t mean your relationship is broken beyond repair. It just means you are stuck in a painful cycle.How We Tending to Your Connection:
- Creating an emotional sanctuary where both of you can speak honestly without fear of judgment, blame, or rejection.
- Softening the rough edges of communication so you can express your core needs in a way your partner can actually hear.
- Healing the invisible wounds left behind by years of unspoken resentment, distance, or breaches of trust.
“In my practice, I don’t take sides. I look at your relationship with compassion, helping both of you safely lower your guards so you can rediscover the friendship and intimacy that brought you together in the first place.”
Family Counseling
Family Counseling
Family Counseling
Family - $160
Family counseling provides a safe, supportive environment for families to improve communication, work through conflict, and strengthen their relationships. At Beyond Phoenix Counseling, we help families in Mount Holly, Belmont, Gastonia, Charlotte, and surrounding communities navigate challenges such as, parenting concerns, major life changes, stress, grief, family conflict, and relationship difficulties.
Our goal is to help family members better understand one another, develop healthier communication skills, and build stronger, more connected relationships. Whether your family is experiencing ongoing conflict or simply wants support navigating a difficult season, we can provide guidance and practical tools for positive change.
EMDR
Family Counseling
Family Counseling
EMDR - $160
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful, evidence-based therapy designed to help people heal from the emotional distress and negative beliefs that come from past traumatic or painful experiences. When something overwhelming happens, the brain can sometimes get “stuck” in how it processes that memory. EMDR helps unlock and reprocess these memories so that they lose their emotional charge and can be stored in a healthier, more adaptive way.
During EMDR, the therapist guides you through recalling distressing memories while engaging in gentle bilateral stimulation—such as eye movements, tapping, or sounds—that activates both sides of the brain. This process helps the brain reprocess the memory, integrate it more completely, and connect it with your present understanding and strengths.
As old wounds are processed, people often experience significant relief from symptoms such as anxiety, depression, intrusive thoughts, and emotional reactivity. EMDR doesn’t erase the memory—it helps it lose its power. Many individuals report feeling calmer, more confident, and better able to respond to life’s challenges instead of being controlled by the past.
Through EMDR, you can move from surviving to truly living—free to experience your present and future with greater peace, clarity, and resilience.