About Henry
Henry Palmer III (Chip) helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. He is Henry Palmer III and he brings practical, focused work to sessions. He keeps conversations straightforward and action-oriented so people can try new ways of coping between visits.
Chip draws on three decades of experience as a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - in North Carolina. He has long worked with people who have faced legal, medical, or interpersonal problems after risky decisions.
Background and approach
That experience shapes how he looks at patterns that repeat and cause harm. In sessions he uses solution-focused methods and motivational approaches. He mixes mindfulness and existential ideas to help people find meaning and make different choices.
He uses clear strategies, metaphors, and contingency planning to support change. He has extensive work with alcohol and drug problems and with co-occurring mental health concerns. His own long-term recovery informs how he talks about relapse, responsibility, and hope.
He also helps with anger, intimacy issues, eating concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. People can expect practical next steps, not only talk. Chip helps design small experiments and coping tools to try between sessions.
His style is direct, empathetic, and focused on helping people take manageable steps forward.
Online approaches that focus on practical change
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what is said, and supports self-directed goals. This works well for people who need a calm, respectful space to sort priorities and make decisions.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for coping with intense emotions and improving relationships. It teaches breathing and grounding techniques, emotion regulation, and ways to tolerate distress without acting on it. These skills are helpful for crises, impulsivity, and patterns that keep repeating.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations and visual connection, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging allow for quick check-ins and brief coaching between longer appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical for everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English