Lawanna D. Brown,
MS, LCMHCS
Founder of Progressing through Therapy, therapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and advocate for meaningful emotional growth.
In-person therapy in Greensboro, NC for adults navigating anxiety, grief, burnout, identity shifts, and life transitions.
Appointment InquiryA Little about Lawanna
Lawanna D. Brown, MS, LCMHCS is the Founder of Progressing through Therapy, a Black woman-owned mental health practice providing in-person therapy in Greensboro, North Carolina.
She created Progressing through Therapy to build the kind of therapeutic environment she once needed during her own personal hell — a space rooted in honesty, boundaries, cultural understanding, accountability, and real emotional growth.
Since beginning clinical practice in 2014, Lawanna has worked with clients navigating anxiety, grief, identity shifts, complex trauma, burnout, and the emotional weight of being the strong one for everyone else.
Who Lawanna Works With
Her clinical work often centers minority women, high-achieving women, minority men, professionals experiencing burnout, and adults over 30 who find themselves questioning identity, values, boundaries, and emotional patterns.
Many of the people she works with are functioning well on the outside while privately feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or unsure of who they are outside of responsibility.
In therapy, we attempt to answer:
Who are you if you are not the roles that you play?
Clinical Approach
Lawanna’s counseling style is direct but compassionate, honest, reflective, and accountability-focused. She believes therapy should offer more than comfort — it should create clarity, ownership, emotional regulation, and practical movement toward change.
Her work is trauma-informed, solution-focused, and insight-oriented. Sessions often include strengthening boundaries, identifying values and beliefs, improving self-trust, emotional regulation, self-validation, and helping clients answer the deeper question of who they are beyond titles, roles, and expectations.
Therapy is not simply about feeling better for the week — it is about building a life that no longer requires constant survival mode.
Beyond the Therapy Room
In addition to private practice, Lawanna teaches at Anson County Correctional Facility through Guilford College's Wise Justice Program, provides clinical supervision for LCMHCA clinicians across North Carolina, and offers speaking engagements and presentations on mental health, emotional regulation, trauma, grief, and professional growth.
She also creates intentional healing spaces through A Journal & A Cup of Tea, women’s wellness events, Fika gatherings, tea experiences, and reflective community-centered events designed to encourage emotional restoration and connection.
Outside of therapy, she values silence, tea, crochet, knitting, gardening, primitive camping, meaningful experiences, creativity, and time with Mr. C.
Clinical Supervision
Lawanna is currently accepting new LCMHCA supervisees in North Carolina. Supervision is structured, reflective, supportive, and designed to help emerging clinicians strengthen confidence, clinical judgment, ethical decision-making, and professional identity.
Individual supervision is $75,
Triadic supervision is $65, Group supervision is $45. Learn About Clinical SupervisionAppointments & Payment
Progressing through Therapy offers IN-PERSON ONLY appointments in Greensboro, North Carolina. Office hours are Sunday through Tuesday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
Accepted insurance plans include Aetna, Aetna State Health Plan, BCBS, Cigna/Evernorth, Healthgram, Meritain, Optum, and United Healthcare.
Private pay sessions are $150.Who Are You If You Are Not the Roles That You Play?
Healing begins when people are willing to ask honest questions, challenge old patterns, and choose themselves with clarity and ownership.
Make good choices. As long as it is your choice, it is the right choice.
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