Adrienne N. Fisher, MFA, MS, LCMHCA

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"There are all kinds of great therapists, and it's so important to find your right fit. My own style is active, relaxed, and conversational, with a lot of humor and hunting for meaning. All of your self, and all of your stories, are deeply welcome." -Adrienne

Adrienne is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate who specializes in couples & relationship counseling and sexual health (18+). Adrienne warmly welcomes every individual and relationship, and especially loves serving the LGBTQIA+ community, persons with international or multiple racial & ethnic identities, creatives, young adults, persons with chronic pain or physical disability, and persons in advocacy or helping/public service professions. Adrienne also has background in and loves working with folx healing from sexual assault, intimate partner violence, controlling or abusive group dynamics, and spiritual abuse.
 
Adrienne will work with you in a warm, accepting space, where laughter, active energy, compassion and creativity are key.  In her office, you can expect the focus to stay on your voice in crafting your own story, and together you will build on the strengths you bring into the room. Her office is an explicitly anti-racist, sex & body positive space for each orientation, presentation, and identity.
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Qualifications
Adrienne received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston in 2011, and cherishes her interdisciplinary and creative first career where she spent many years teaching young adults.  In 2021, she received her MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Central Methodist University (no religious affiliation) in Columbia, Missouri.  Adrienne is currently pursuing her PhD in Counseling & Counselor Education at University of North Carolina Greensboro, and is licensed in North Carolina as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Associate (#A17923).

Counseling Background
Adrienne has provided individual, group, couples, and couples group therapy to adults in community and university settings in both Missouri and the Triad area.  Along the way, she has completed training in the Gottman Method, narrative therapy, ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy), and trans-informed mental health care. In Missouri, she worked with individuals, couples and groups in a shelter for folks who have experienced intimate partner and sexual violence.  In addition to providing therapeutic services, she also helped her clients access community, legal, and institutional resources wherever possible.  Here in the Triad, she has worked with adults from all over the country and the globe individually, in couples, and in couples groups. Adrienne is also currently helping to train Master’s level counselors at UNCG in a range of therapeutic skills in her capacity as a PhD student.
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Specialization
Adrienne currently specializes in couples and relationship counseling (18+). Whether you consider your relationship to be deeply rooted in your respective traditions, highly non-traditional and by creative design, or somewhere in between, she will meet you and your partner(s) precisely where you are.  A focus on sexual health and sex & body positivity within your relationship are also explicitly welcomed into your work together, if relevant for you. Adrienne has completed Level 1 training in the Gottman Method, and has worked with couples both individually and in groups. She loves to blend the Gottman approach with her own unique grounding in narrative theory and ACT.  This will provide you with an evidence based approach to couples therapy that offers space and time to fully hear one another’s stories, build on your current strengths, and find ways to more fully accept one another as whole people. Adrienne is also currently helping to train master’s students in both Marriage & Family and Sexuality counseling.
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Personal Life
Adrienne grew up all over the world (Canada was a favorite!), and just moved to Greensboro with her partner and their dog (Deacon, a giant wimpy lab-husky mix) and cat (Saffron, a calico Queen).  When she is not spending every waking moment trying to survive her PhD, she is wandering Greensboro with Deacon, reading so many books at once that she will never finish any of them, drawing, watching a great show/movie (too many!), or hanging out and chatting with her partner and friends over board games or delicious food.  She is also looking forward to attending her partner’s upcoming mystery dinner theater performances, and having a great time failing dismally at guessing the killer.