Rising Tide Counseling

Here, you don’t have to. Rising Tide Counseling is an affirming, trauma-informed practice where lived experience is woven into our clinical training, where you’re seen from the very beginning.

We work with LGBTQIA+ individuals, neurodivergent adults, military-connected adults, children and adolescents, and trauma survivors.

Based in Jacksonville, NC, serving clients throughout North Carolina via telehealth.

LGBTQIA+ Individuals
You’ve navigated a world that wasn’t built with you in mind. Whether you’re exploring identity, healing from rejection, or just looking for a space where you can let your guard down and process what is happening in the world. You belong here.

Neurodivergent Individuals
You’ve probably spent years masking, adapting, and wondering why everything feels harder than it should. We get it. Our clinicians work with you the way your brain actually works, not the way the world expects it to.

Children & Adolescents
Kids carry more than people realize. We work with young people in a way that respects their experience, meets them where they are, and helps them build language for what they’re feeling.

Trauma Survivors
You don’t have to have it all figured out before you reach out. You don’t have to know what to call it, explain it perfectly, or be in crisis to deserve support. We’ll meet you exactly where you are.

Military-Connected Adults & Families
Military life leaves a mark, and not always the one people talk about. We understand what that world actually looks like from the inside, whether you’re currently serving, transitioning out, finding your footing after, or a family member carrying your own share of it.

Therapy at Rising Tide Counseling isn’t one-size-fits-all. We draw from evidence-based approaches and adapt them to fit you, your history, your brain, your life. We believe the relationship between you and your clinician is the foundation of everything. You won’t be pushed, pathologized, or handed a worksheet and sent on your way. You’ll be met where you are, as you are, and we’ll figure out the rest together.

Mindfulness, Compassion, and Strengths-Based Approaches
Practical tools for staying present and regulating your nervous system, grounded in the belief that you already have more within you than you’ve been given credit for.

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Rather than teaching you to avoid or push away difficult thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you accept them as a natural part of being human and commit to taking action aligned with your values, moving toward the life and relationships you actually want.

Trauma-Informed Care
Everything we do is grounded in an understanding of how trauma lives in the body and shows up in daily life.

We affirm LGBTQIA+ identities fully. Black and Brown lives matter. Immigrants deserve dignity and access to care. Neurodiversity is not a deficit. Your body and autonomy matter.
This is the space for you if you share these values.

Rising Tide Counseling is led by Dr. Tiffany Cutrone, EdD, LCMHCS, LPC, LCAS, a clinician with over 15 years of experience in trauma, identity, and affirming care. Our team includes graduate-level clinical mental health counseling interns who bring their own lived experience, specialized training, and genuine investment in the clients they serve.

Every intern at Rising Tide works under Dr. Cutrone’s direct clinical supervision, meaning you get a dedicated clinician who is fully present with you and a seasoned supervisor invested in your care every step of the way.