OUR Mission is to Serve
Our mission is simple: create North Carolina's best group practice for psychotherapists to facilitate healing and growth
We created this group practice with the notion that psychological and relational healing and growth (that is, "great therapy") happens when therapists are engaged in a structure that gives them the support they truly need (i.e. business & operational services and clinical support) and then gets out of the way of their therapeutic wisdom & work and their relationships with clients. When given good services and support, therapists know what to do. A business entity doesn't need to tell them that.
We have co-created (and are co-creating) a space for psychotherapists and their clients that respects the choices, competencies and relationships of clients and practitioners, and focuses on service to both employees and clients. We provide a simple and transparent business model, some basic guidance on our culture of practicing therapy with the latest science-based principles in mind, support our therapists to receive ongoing top-quality post graduate training, consultation and fellowship, and let the therapist-client relationships and expertly delivered therapies take care of the art of healing and growth.
We match clients with North Carolina licensed and certified psychotherapists who specialize in the issues treatment is being sought for, the population groups the client identifies with, and/or the type of treatment being sought. Our clients are served by clinicians who are committed to providing not only competent, but expert care, and are constantly working at being their best therapeutic Self. Additionally, our therapists are supported to be healthy, balanced, interpersonally responsive and engaging people who deeply appreciate the privilege we have to be therapists for people who choose to trust us with their healing and growth. We are honored to have the opportunity to serve clients and practitioners.
We invest in our therapists by supporting the development of their clinical skills in line with their passions, their personal well-being, and sense of community. We want our therapists to feel our appreciation in order to be a happier and healthier crowd of professional healers. We do this so that our clients know that their therapists are given the best supports and tools any therapist in North Carolina can receive, and our therapists know that they matter and are respected. We know that our practitioners will give clients everything a therapist could because we give everything we can as a business to our therapists.
Quite simply, we set out to accomplish two things, and do them exceptionally well:
1) serve psychotherapy clients with top quality services and
2) help therapists thrive in their careers and achieve excellence
Independent of their professional license, approach to psychotherapy or stage of career, all of our therapists are regularly trained and supervised in the concepts and skills of what research says matters for best client experiences and outcomes: cultivating and maintaining responsive therapeutic relationships, honing facilitative interpersonal skills, becoming expert in the scientifically supported models they pull from (and even developing their own), and getting support for their own personal development, healing and growth. Additionally, all of our therapists all receive training and supervision in specialized, scientifically supported models of psychotherapy to inform their practice with couples and other romantic relationships, families, groups, individual adults, and children. Our therapists have joined us in our mission to provide exceptional services, and to be in a collaborative, healing-oriented relationship with their clients.
We created this group practice with the notion that psychological and relational healing and growth (that is, "great therapy") happens when therapists are engaged in a structure that gives them the support they truly need (i.e. business & operational services and clinical support) and then gets out of the way of their therapeutic wisdom & work and their relationships with clients. When given good services and support, therapists know what to do. A business entity doesn't need to tell them that.
We have co-created (and are co-creating) a space for psychotherapists and their clients that respects the choices, competencies and relationships of clients and practitioners, and focuses on service to both employees and clients. We provide a simple and transparent business model, some basic guidance on our culture of practicing therapy with the latest science-based principles in mind, support our therapists to receive ongoing top-quality post graduate training, consultation and fellowship, and let the therapist-client relationships and expertly delivered therapies take care of the art of healing and growth.
We match clients with North Carolina licensed and certified psychotherapists who specialize in the issues treatment is being sought for, the population groups the client identifies with, and/or the type of treatment being sought. Our clients are served by clinicians who are committed to providing not only competent, but expert care, and are constantly working at being their best therapeutic Self. Additionally, our therapists are supported to be healthy, balanced, interpersonally responsive and engaging people who deeply appreciate the privilege we have to be therapists for people who choose to trust us with their healing and growth. We are honored to have the opportunity to serve clients and practitioners.
We invest in our therapists by supporting the development of their clinical skills in line with their passions, their personal well-being, and sense of community. We want our therapists to feel our appreciation in order to be a happier and healthier crowd of professional healers. We do this so that our clients know that their therapists are given the best supports and tools any therapist in North Carolina can receive, and our therapists know that they matter and are respected. We know that our practitioners will give clients everything a therapist could because we give everything we can as a business to our therapists.
Quite simply, we set out to accomplish two things, and do them exceptionally well:
1) serve psychotherapy clients with top quality services and
2) help therapists thrive in their careers and achieve excellence
Independent of their professional license, approach to psychotherapy or stage of career, all of our therapists are regularly trained and supervised in the concepts and skills of what research says matters for best client experiences and outcomes: cultivating and maintaining responsive therapeutic relationships, honing facilitative interpersonal skills, becoming expert in the scientifically supported models they pull from (and even developing their own), and getting support for their own personal development, healing and growth. Additionally, all of our therapists all receive training and supervision in specialized, scientifically supported models of psychotherapy to inform their practice with couples and other romantic relationships, families, groups, individual adults, and children. Our therapists have joined us in our mission to provide exceptional services, and to be in a collaborative, healing-oriented relationship with their clients.
Our vision is a revolution of How Business is done in our industry So Therapists can do what science says produces best outcomes in therapy
The Co-Founders
James McCracken, MSW, LCSW, DCSW
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Alan Harper, MSW, LCSW
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North Carolina Therapy Professionals, PLLC began with the merger of the solo therapy practices of James McCracken, LCSW and Alan Harper, LCSW in 2022, with Alan and James taking the roles of managing members, Chief Executive Officer (Alan) and Clinical Director (James) . We hire additional therapists licensed and located anywhere in North Carolina who are interested in pursuing our mission and upholding our core values:
1. Relational & Responsive Collaborative Care rooted in Humanistic Ethics - We believe that good therapy is all about a healthy relationship that is exemplified by a therapist being emotionally accessible, affirmative, responsive and engaged, and cultivating corrective emotional/relational experiences for clients.
2. Client Directed, Outcome-Informed Practice - We believe in the science of psychotherapy that finds therapy is most effective when goals and services are client centered, are informed through routine outcome measurement of both relevant client outcomes and therapist abilities within the therapy relationship.
3. Pursuit of Clinical Excellence Through Career-Long Development in Scientifically Support Approaches - We believe that therapists are most effective when they engage in life-long learning of concepts and skills (often embodied in formal "models" of psychotherapy) which are rooted in psychotherapy effectiveness research.
4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - We believe that social oppression and exclusion are antithetical to health and healing, and are primary contributors to disease and dysfunction that clients often present to treatment for. Starting with our own group, we emphasize work to be an organization and individual providers who strive to celebrate diversity of human life, provide equitable opportunities, actively work towards inclusion and against exclusion based on identity or group membership, and emphasize universal belonging and respect amongst all felllow humans (employees and clients).
5. Healing and Growth Oriented - We believe that people's first nature is to be healthy and thrive, their second nature is to adapt to hardship, and their third nature is to get back to their first nature when given secure and healthy relationships. We see that clinicians and clients are trying the best they know how at any given moment, and even seemingly dysfunctional behaviors can make sense from this perspective. We trust that we are always healing and growing, and this can be harnessed from the et-go and any moment there on in therapeutic relationships.
6. Systemically-Informed - We believe that individuals, families and groups are located within, are affected by, and do affect larger systems. We believe that problematic patterns are the real issue for most people, resulting from what were initially adaptations to hardship and adversity, but have become rigid, unintentionally painful, damaging or limiting strategies.
7. Family Focused - We believe that individuals reside within a web of intimate relationships, and we privilege the importance of these relationships, including any construction of "family": romantic relationships, friendships, families of origin, or families of choice. We aim to foster healthy families through our services.
To learn more about our co-founders please read their profile pages here (James) and here (Alan)
1. Relational & Responsive Collaborative Care rooted in Humanistic Ethics - We believe that good therapy is all about a healthy relationship that is exemplified by a therapist being emotionally accessible, affirmative, responsive and engaged, and cultivating corrective emotional/relational experiences for clients.
2. Client Directed, Outcome-Informed Practice - We believe in the science of psychotherapy that finds therapy is most effective when goals and services are client centered, are informed through routine outcome measurement of both relevant client outcomes and therapist abilities within the therapy relationship.
3. Pursuit of Clinical Excellence Through Career-Long Development in Scientifically Support Approaches - We believe that therapists are most effective when they engage in life-long learning of concepts and skills (often embodied in formal "models" of psychotherapy) which are rooted in psychotherapy effectiveness research.
4. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging - We believe that social oppression and exclusion are antithetical to health and healing, and are primary contributors to disease and dysfunction that clients often present to treatment for. Starting with our own group, we emphasize work to be an organization and individual providers who strive to celebrate diversity of human life, provide equitable opportunities, actively work towards inclusion and against exclusion based on identity or group membership, and emphasize universal belonging and respect amongst all felllow humans (employees and clients).
5. Healing and Growth Oriented - We believe that people's first nature is to be healthy and thrive, their second nature is to adapt to hardship, and their third nature is to get back to their first nature when given secure and healthy relationships. We see that clinicians and clients are trying the best they know how at any given moment, and even seemingly dysfunctional behaviors can make sense from this perspective. We trust that we are always healing and growing, and this can be harnessed from the et-go and any moment there on in therapeutic relationships.
6. Systemically-Informed - We believe that individuals, families and groups are located within, are affected by, and do affect larger systems. We believe that problematic patterns are the real issue for most people, resulting from what were initially adaptations to hardship and adversity, but have become rigid, unintentionally painful, damaging or limiting strategies.
7. Family Focused - We believe that individuals reside within a web of intimate relationships, and we privilege the importance of these relationships, including any construction of "family": romantic relationships, friendships, families of origin, or families of choice. We aim to foster healthy families through our services.
To learn more about our co-founders please read their profile pages here (James) and here (Alan)
NC Licensed therapists who reside in North Carolina interested in exploring opportunities to join our practice are welcome to contact us any time. We are always growing and are not limited by a brick-and-mortar/office space-based mentality. Please check out our Employment Opportunities page to learn more.