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Delaney Dow,
LCMHC-A
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate. ADHD, perfectionism and burnout, and faith integration in children 10 and up, teens, and adults.
You don’t have to be falling apart to want help with this.
ADHD
Perfectionism and burnout
Grief
Faith-integrated
Teen Anxiety
Currently accepting new clients. Book online, email Delaney at delaney@allorarise.com, or call or text her at 910-839-7211.
The grades are fine. The job is fine. You’re supposed to be enjoying this part, and you can’t work out why you aren’t. What you don’t say is that rest has started to feel like falling behind, and that you’re quietly certain none of it will ever be enough.
Doing well on paper isn’t a reason to wait. You may be holding school or work together perfectly from the outside, which is exactly what makes it feel hard to justify asking for help.
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Running out of time in the day isn’t a character flaw. You are carrying more than one person can hold at once, and nobody can, which means something has to come off the pile. Working out what that is, and what it costs you to keep holding it, is the work.
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Delaney Dow is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate at Allora Rise Counseling and Therapy, seeing children 10 and up, teens, and adults at the practice’s Wrightsville Beach office and by telehealth throughout North Carolina. She works most often with teenagers, young adults, and college students who are dealing with ADHD, anxiety, perfectionism, life transitions, negative thought patterns, grief, burnout, or trauma. They usually describe feeling stuck, exhausted, overwhelmed, or unworthy.
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She works most often with three things.
ADHD
You have been told to try harder at things your brain isn’t built for. Delaney works on using your brain the way it’s actually wired instead of fighting it, and on finding what that wiring is good at.
Perfectionism and burnout
The habits wearing you out are the same ones people compliment you for, which is what makes them hard to put down. The work is slowing down and changing them anyway.
Faith integration
If your faith is part of this, it can be part of the work. That includes the questions about faith and identity you may not have said out loud, and healing from painful experiences with religion.
Beyond those three, Delaney also works with anxiety and panic, social anxiety, chronic stress, depression, emotional regulation, trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) including childhood and sexual trauma, grief and traumatic loss, self-esteem, identity exploration, and perinatal and postpartum concerns.
Clients describe Delaney as warm and supportive, willing to confront gently, and quick to use humor.
She’s more likely to wait than to push.
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She’s trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), play therapy, and person-centered work, and also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills. She reaches for CBT with clients working to change thought patterns, particularly around anxiety, perfectionism, and depression. She uses ACT with clients who want more cognitive flexibility and a life that lines up with their values, and DBT skills when someone is frequently overwhelmed and needs something to use in the moment.
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In the first few weeks she focuses on the symptoms that are loudest right now, using breathing exercises, mindfulness, and things you can do in the moment to bring your body down fast, like cold water on your face or a short burst of hard exercise. At three months, most clients have a toolbox they actually reach for and can tell when a fearful thought is their anxiety talking. By six months they’re trying the things that used to be off the table.
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Delaney also works with grief, and welcomes the whole range of it, including anger, avoidance, guilt, relief, humor, and the logistics nobody warns you about. She knows academic and athletic pressure from the inside, having gone through it in high school, which is part of why she connects with high-performing and burnt-out clients.
Your first session
Delaney opens with introductions and spends the first session building the relationship rather than rushing the history. She asks whether you’ve been in therapy before and what did and didn’t help, then about your story, what brought you here, and your strengths and supports.
Clients tend to leave more informed about how counseling actually works, more comfortable with her, and more hopeful about what they’re capable of. With a client under 18, she meets with the young person and the parents together and then each separately.
Whether Delaney is your fit
Delaney sees clients from age 10 upward, one-to-one. Her practice is built around ADHD, perfectionism and burnout, and faith integration.
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If that is what brought you here, a free fifteen-minute consultation with Delaney is the fastest way to know. If you’re carrying something else, email info@allorarise.com or call or text 910-408-2302, and we’ll point you to the therapist here who works with it.
PRACTICAL DETAILS
INSURANCE
Aetna
Blue Cross Blue Shield NC
SELF-PAY
Private pay accepted
Sliding scale available
SEES
Individuals
Children 10 and up, teens, and adults
WHERE
530 Causeway Drive
Suite A2
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480
Telehealth throughout North Carolina