Meet Our Team
Dr. Taylor Anderson-Cunningham, Psy.D.
Phone: (919) 817-8050
Email: tanderson@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Dr. Cunningham is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in attachment styles for couples and marriage therapy, working in Raleigh and the surrounding NC areas. Dr. Cunningham utilizes Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples therapy to help partners 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. Cunningham incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help clients reach their goals. Dr. Cunningham individualizes her approach to best meet the needs of each unique client.
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, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness, to create tailored and 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.
Dr. Allison Hendrik, 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 can 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, providing symptom relief while addressing the underlying root cause of your negative cycle and fostering a long-term, positive, healthy, and connected relationship cycle. She values the deeper work attachment theory and EFT lends to her couples to be more emotionally connected and intimate.
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 the Gottman Method (Levels I & II), a powerful evidence-based therapy to help couples struggling in their relationships. Additionally, Amy is a certified Collaborative Divorce therapist.
Amy works with individuals and is particularly passionate about women’s mental health, specializing in supporting single women in navigating life with meaning and purpose. Amy supports women and individuals to overcome depression, anxiety, career challenges, burnout, and grief. Amy is an LGBTQ affirming therapist. She works from a Relational System Lens and combines evidence-based treatments, including Solution-Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), to promote not just symptom relief, but lasting change.
Dr. Sydney Stevens, Ph.D.
Phone: (919) 817-8052
Email: sstevens@carolinatherapysolutions.com
Dr. Stevens received her Doctorate in Counseling Psychology and is experienced working with emerging adults, older adolescents, and older adults. She is passionate about working with individuals struggling with developmental and childhood trauma, interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Stevens values insight-oriented work and utilizes a Psychodynamic lens to help individuals explore how their upbringing and early developmental experiences have shaped their current functioning. She also incorporates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Mindfulness to help individuals better manage symptoms of anxiety and depression so that they can reach their goals and make lasting change. Dr. Stevens mindfully tailors her therapeutic approach to best meet the needs of each unique client.