Beth Kincaid has an M.Ed.
in Guidance and Counseling and is both a National Certified
Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has served
as a case manager for the Guilford County Willie M. Program
and as a counselor at Guilford College. She has conducted workshops
for Cigna and other organizations on numerous topics, including
stress management, assertiveness, and smoking cessation. A member
of the The Center since 1986, Beth specializes in working with
children and adolescents. She also enjoys working with adults,
families, and couples. Her special interests include women’s
issues; eating disorders, conduct disorders, obsessive compulsive
disorders, parenting and relationship skills training, depression,
anxiety, grief/loss, dependency; sexual and physical abuse,
and ADHD.
She takes a humanistic approach to therapy—assuming that
all people can change and grow and take responsibility for their
present decisions and actions despite difficulties they have
faced in the past. In dealing with children, she uses play
therapy, providing children a safe outlet to discuss and/or
work out their feelings through play. In treating school-related
problems, she offers pragmatic strategies to help students focus—strategies
such as students’ predicting and recording how many times
a teacher will say a specific word, or students’ imagining
themselves living in the time period the class is studying.
Beth says that her goal is to help her clients—children
or adult—learn mindfulness, to help them figure out what
they are feeling, what they truly want, and how best to get
what they want. What therapy can ultimately offer, she says—if
the client is willing to work—is “peace with oneself
and faith in one's ability to cope with the stresses in life.”
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