Abby Biehl, LCMHCA
Hi, I’m Abby! I am dedicated to building a therapeutic relationship with you grounded in trust, safety, and empathy. Through this safe and secure relationship, you can explore your backstory, identify and heal the roadblocks to healthier connection, and feel empowered moving forward in your relationship with yourself and others. I use a gentle and loving approach while acting as a secure attachment figure for you to practice authenticity and vulnerability with.
ATTACHMENT ISSUES
Our attachment style is informed by how our caregivers attuned to us and met our emotional needs as children. I aim to shed light on the deep impact these early relationships have on our emotional well-being. Through exploring how your caregiver attuned to you, we can unravel the complexities of attachment patterns, identifying how they show up in the present day. I guide my clients in discovering how their attachment patterns shape their relationships and sense of self, creating a more secure attachment style along the way.
INNER CHILD WORK
Our early life experiences significantly shape our beliefs, behaviors, and emotions as adults. Oftentimes, we view ourselves and the world through a lens which was created out of our early wounding. Through inner child work, you can connect back with your wounded little one, attune to their emotional needs, and show up as a loving parent to them. This gives your inner child an opportunity to rewrite their story and experience trust, safety, and secure attachment.
TRAUMA
Typically, trauma is believed to be a big, bad, awful event that one experiences. While that is true, trauma is also things such as misattunement from a caregiver, emotional neglect, or growing up in a high conflict household. Trauma is more than an event, it is what happens in your body when the event happens. When we experience trauma, our body falls into dysregulation. Without proper repair and healing, we can get stuck in dysregulation which shows up as symptoms such as depression, anxiety, dissociation, numbing/medicating, impulsivity, avoidance, or isolation. Through our trauma work, you will have the safety your body needs to properly reprocess and move stored trauma out of the body. By allowing this to happen, we are bringing peace, regulation, and connection back into your body.
HOW I HELP
I got my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and my master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Gardner-Webb University. I got into the field after having mental health struggles of my own and feeling immense shame because of it. I learned to shove the painful feelings down and show up as if I had it all together. This mask of people-pleasing led to anxiety, insecurity, disconnection, and isolation. For me, healing came when I experienced safety in therapy and earned to attune to my inner emotional world, rather than avoid it. It is my goal and passion to walk alongside others, provide safety and support, and allow them to discover themselves and heal their wounding.
MORE ABOUT ME
Outside of the therapy room, you can find me enjoying a good cup of coffee, snuggling with my cats, and listening to Taylor Swift. I love anything to do with being outside, and I will take any opportunity to try new recipes in the kitchen (as long as someone else cleans it up). I also have 3 nieces and 2 nephews that I love to spend time with and spoil whenever I get the chance!
FAVORITE QUOTE
“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.” -Brené Brown