Stephen Messer
Psychologist
Why pick this one
Dr. Stephen Messer offers individual, couples, and family therapy in Chapel Hill, backed by over three decades of clinical experience.
Best for
- Anxiety, panic, social anxiety, OCD, trauma, depression, grief, ADHD, and emotional dysregulation
- Individual therapy for older adolescents and adults
- Couples experiencing communication problems, conflict, commitment issues, or relationship distress
- Families addressing parenting challenges, conflict, estrangement, or ineffective communication
- Clients seeking diagnostic evaluations or second opinions
- Clients seeking research-informed therapy using ACT, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic-existential, or psychodynamic-relational approaches
Look elsewhere if
- Clients requiring an in-network insurance provider, since the practice is private-pay and out-of-network
- Clients needing emergency or crisis treatment, since current emergency availability is not stated
- Clients needing appointments outside Tuesday–Friday, 1:00 pm–8:00 pm
Specialties
- Diagnostic evaluations and treatment planning
- Individual psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, OCD, ADHD, grief, and emotional dysregulation
- Couples therapy for communication problems, conflict, commitment issues, boundaries, and relationship distress
- Family therapy for conflict, parenting challenges, ineffective communication, and estrangement
- Parenting skills support
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
Certifications
- Licensed clinical psychologist
- American Psychological Association member
- American Psychopathological Association Fellow
- International Society of Traumatic Stress member
- National Register of Health Service Psychologists member
What makes them different
- Over three decades of clinical experience
- Clinical experience in university clinics, military medical centers, public schools, state psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric emergency departments, group practices, and private practices
- More than 150 scientific articles, chapters, and presentations authored or published
- Serves older children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families
- Publishes fees of $225 per hour for individual therapy and $250 per hour for couples and family therapy
- Response time
- Typically replies within 24–48 hours
- Serves
- Chapel Hill
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 102 Market St Ste 200, Chapel Hill, NC 27516
- Phone
- +19199601034
- Website
- https://drstevemesser.com/
- info@drstevemesser.com
Services
- Assessment and diagnosis
- Individual psychotherapy
- Couples therapy
- Family therapy
- Parenting skills support
- Psychological consultation
- Second opinions
- Professional trainings, seminars, and courses