Professional Background

Crystal believes we have the power to own our story. After spending 10 years working as a journalist and then victims advocate helping people elevate their voice and raise community awareness, she decided to pursue a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy to help people own their story by healing their relationships, trauma, and mental health.

Crystal O’Gorman graduated with honors from National University (formerly known as Northcentral University) with a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy in 2022. During the height of COVID, she completed clinical work in private practice and volunteered with Crisis Text Line to support folks experiencing mental health crises. She has been seeing clients for over four years and is fully licensed to practice as a Marriage and Family Therapist in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Clients & Treatment Methods

Crystal sees individual clients ages 16 and up, couples, and families. She supports clients experiencing relationship distress, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, difficult life transitions, trauma, and personality/identity concerns.

Crystal is certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy for relationship distress and disconnection.
She is also certified in Prepare-Enrich premarital counseling. Crystal is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional who’s trained in Narrative Therapy and EMDR.

Crystal applies an integrative, collaborative, feedback-informed approach using evidence-based, systemic, and constructivist approaches such as Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Collaborative Therapy, EMDR, and Solution-Focused Therapy.

Personal Interests

When not in the counseling room, Crystal enjoys spending time with family, being captivated by a great book, show, or album; traveling around the world; and exploring nature. Crystal loves escaping to the NC mountains, which she calls her happy place.

She has been married for over 17 years to her South African husband. They have two kids and two rescue pups.

She has an insatiable curiosity and deep compassion for humanity, spending her free time volunteering as a girl scouts troop leader and further learning how to help others enjoy this, as Mary Oliver would say, “one wild and precious life.”