Macie Stewart (she/her)

Macie trained and worked in an agency assisting individuals in the LGBTQIA+ community. The agency focuses on HIV care and prevention with multiple services including therapy. Loving her time there along with personal experiences has given Macie a compassionate insight into the challenges facing this community that are escalating with today's political discourse. Macie also developed a speciality of working in the space of religious trauma in this community as well.

The most common wedge between individuals is the past and experiences that get in the way. These experiences can bring negative patterns of behavior and communication into relationships creating a spiral that is difficult to change by ourselves. Through collaborative, narrative, emotionally focused, multigenerational and integrative therapies, Macie works to uncover and heal those wounds that challenge healthy, supportive relationships while building new and positive patterns. Macie has ex

Women have unique sets of challenges with society's expectations, regulations re: body autonomy, reproduction, menopause, body changes and life transitions among others. As a woman who has lived through many of these challenges and consciously works to understands the landscape of today, she shows compassion and empathy with women as they find their way through the difficulties of life.

Macie worked for many years within the Charlotte, NC non-profit sector. Much of this work was with folks from different cultures, socio-economic backgrounds, viewpoints and origins. This important work helped Macie learn more deeply about the inequity in the world's system and how that flowed down to individuals and their treatment within those systems. This coupled with her deep belief that humans are created equally and deserve to be treated with compassion and equity.

IFS is a psychotherapy model working from the premise that we all have parts within us that interacts with the world. Some parts are confident, compassionate and whole while others are wounded or protective. Understanding that changes in the internal system can create positive change in the external system.

Macie works with clients to understand their inner dialogue and the story they tell about themselves and their world and how this may or may not be helpful to bring forward. The work begins in understanding origins of self talk and rewriting those narratives that no longer serve the client.