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Welcome to Great Place to Start!
Your  Well-Being is in Good Hands

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A Bit About Therapy

At GPSBHS, we use thoughtful and proven therapy techniques to help our clients better understand themselves and navigate life's challenges with greater confidence and resilience. Therapy isn’t a quick fix or a magic solution—it’s a journey of healing that thrives on active participation and commitment. For children, the involvement of their caregivers is a vital part of this process. With time and effort, even small steps toward changing unhelpful habits and managing difficult emotions like sadness, fear, or pain can lead to truly transformative results.

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Mission

To provide trauma-informed, evidence-based, and quality services to individuals, families, groups, couples, and agencies. Understanding that they possess the need and inner strength to ultimately make life-altering changes for themselves as they are guided through the process. 

We know that wherever they are on their journey is a Great Place to Start. 

Services Offered

Your well-being is our top priority. We offer individual, couple, and group therapy tailored to meet your unique needs. In couple and family sessions, we create a supportive space that fosters meaningful connection, encourages positive changes, and helps you build practical emotional coping skills. Whether you’re seeking support as an individual, a couple, or a family, GPSBHS is here to help you grow, heal, and feel more confident in facing life’s challenges.

Couples Therapy
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No More Closed Doors to foster children

Check out our latest public service!

Our new Trauma Wellness Center supports Foster Care in all its aspects. We are dedicated to serving our community's foster children and their caretakers, and we saw the need to increase our capacity to do so. Thus, TWC was born!

Contact Us

1425 S Glenburnie Rd Suite 2
New Bern, Craven County 28562
USA

Call 252-336-3646

Fax 252-421-9200

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The following resources are available:

Integrated Family Services Mobile Crisis Team 1-866-437-1821

For Emergencies

For life-threatening emergencies, please call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. 

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Suicide and Crisis Lifeline:

Call or text 988 or Chat online at https://chat.988lifeline.org/

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RHA Mobile Crisis Management Services:

844-709-4097

 

North Carolina Crisis Peer Support:

1-855-733-7762

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Call 252.336.3646

Fax 252.421.9200

1425 S Glenburnie Rd Suite 2
New Bern, Craven County 28562
USA

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