LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST
Owner/Founder of Carolina Therapy Solutions
Dr. Anderson, Psy.D., HSP-P
Meet dr. Taylor anderson, psy.d.
Phone: (919) 817-8050
Email: tanderson@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Dr. Anderson is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in attachment styles for couples and marriage therapy working in Raleigh and surrounding NC areas. Dr. Anderson, utilizes Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT couples therapy) to help couples better connect, communicate, and heal. She also works with couples for affair recovery and infidelity counseling.
She enjoys working with individual clients struggling with depression, anxiety, life transitions, and relationship troubles. Dr. Anderson incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients reach their goals. Dr. Anderson individualizes her approach to best meet the needs of each unique client.
Specialities: Trauma, EMDR, OCD, Eating disorders, self esteem, and anxiety
sophie burns, lcswa
Phone: (919) 817-8056
Email: sburns@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Sophie Burns, MSW, LCSW, is a dedicated therapist with extensive experience supporting adults, adolescents, couples, children, and families. Holding a master’s degree in clinical social work, she has worked across diverse settings, including private practice, inpatient hospitals, partial hospitalization programs, and schools. Sophie specializes in helping clients navigate trauma, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and eating disorders, alongside challenges like ADHD, depression, life transitions, and relational stress. Passionate about fostering resilience and recovery, she integrates evidence-based modalities such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness to create tailored, impactful treatment plans.
Sophie is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), enhancing her ability to support clients in processing and healing from trauma. For couples, she combines the research-backed Gottman Method with Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment-based approaches, fostering deeper healing, emotional connection, and secure bonds by addressing core relational patterns and strengthening communication. When working with families, she utilizes Structural Family Therapy and Narrative Family Therapy to promote healthy dynamics and meaningful change. Sophie’s compassionate, client-centered approach ensures that every individual finds a path to healing, empowerment, and lasting well-being.
Specialities: couples, trauma, attachment work, Lgbtqia+, prenatal/post partum, pregnancy loss, dbt, ADHD/Executive function
dr. allison hendrick, psy.d.
Phone: (919) 817-8054
Email: ahendrick@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Dr. Hendrick received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is experienced working with adults, couples, and older adolescents. She is particularly passionate about working with individuals struggling with interpersonal relationships, attachment injury, emotion regulation, impulsivity, depression, trauma, and anxiety. She is experienced in working with women’s mental and maternal health, fertility, prenatal and postpartum concerns. She is a Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapist, an evidence based model to support those struggling with intense emotional experiences and distress. Dr. Hendrick masterfully tailors her work on an individual basis to ensure you are able to experience lasting change, by integrating Attachment Theory, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Cognitive Processing Therapy.
Dr. Hendrick is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), one of the leading scientifically backed couples therapy models in the field of psychology. Dr. Hendrick works with couples to increase connection, improve communication, and heal from past pain and resentments. Her approach is two-fold as a way to provide symptom relief, while healing the underlying root cause to your negative cycle and creating a long term positive, healthy, and connected relationship cycle. She values the deeper work attachment theory and EFT lend to her couples to be more emotionally connected and intimate.
Specialities: women’s health, couples/relationships, lgbtqia+, anxiety, and life transitions
Amy Leon, LMFTA
Phone: (919) 817-8153
Email: aleon@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Amy Leon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate specializing in working with couples and individuals. Amy works with couples to overcome communication challenges, disconnection, intimacy, and those considering separation or divorce. Amy helps her couples re-establish or deepen their connection to live more meaningful and fulfilling lives together. Amy is trained and certified in Gottman Method (Level I & II), a powerful evidence-based therapy to help couples struggling in their relationship. Additionally, Amy is a certified Collaborative Divorce therapist.
Amy works with individuals and is particularly passionate about women’s mental health and specializes in supporting single women navigate living life with meaning and purpose. Amy supports women and individuals to overcome depression, anxiety, career challenges, burn out, and grief. Amy is an LGBTQ affirming therapist. She works from a Relational System Lens and combines evidence-based treatments including Solutions Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to promote not just symptom relief, but lasting change.
Specialities: Trauma, mindfulness, lgbtqia+, depression, anxiety
Dr. eileen santaella, psy.d
Phone: (919) 817-8051
Email: esantaella@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Dr. Santaella received her doctorate in clinical psychology, with over seven years of experience treating individuals and couples across the lifespan. She holds a doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from APA accredited Albizu University. Dr. Santaella has extensive training and passion treating individuals struggling with trauma and PTSD. She is trained in both Eye Movement Reprocessing and Desensitization (EMDR) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), two of the most widely researched evidence-based treatments for trauma therapy. Dr. Santaella also received training and certification in Somatic Trauma Treatment and the Trauma Conscious Yoga Method. She is particularly passionate about helping individuals understand how their trauma impacts their physical and cognitive development, relationships with others, and view of self and others.
Dr. Santaella is fully bilingual and has worked in a variety of settings to include private practice, hospitals, mental health centers, schools, crisis stabilizations units, out-patient and in-patient facilities, elder care, forensic practices, and research facilities. Her extensive training and experience allows her to carefully create the most effective treatment plan based on your individual history, upbringing, presenting concerns, behaviors, and emotional functioning.