About me

For many years I have enjoyed offering individual, couple, and family therapy in both Columbia and Camden, SC with the goal of resolution of relationship, behavioral, and emotional distress. My focus continues to be on counseling in depth to improve personal adjustment in the external world as well as to resolve intrapsychic conflict in the internal world.
 

• Relationship counseling includes relationship to self as well as to others.
• Couples counseling includes coupling at all life stages and with all types of couples.

For those of you who have known me through the years, what is new is my expanded focus on offering “Brief and In-Depth” counseling (see section on Services ). For quite some time I have maintained a particular interest in studying dreams through embodied dream work. This work is based in principles of Jungian psychology and the pioneering concepts of Robert Bosnak, PsyA and Jill Fischer, PsyA, APRN, IAAP, both Jungian analysts with whom I have studied extensively both in the United States and abroad. Brief and In-Depth counseling per Bosnak and Fischer provides a time limited structure in which to conduct dream work. The intention is to implement life changes growing out of insights gained through interacting with the wisdom of the dream. See my listing under Embodiment Therapists with the International Society for Embodied Imagination at www.embodiedimagination.com.

Also new is my location between Ridgeway and Camden SC at my home office on Lake Wateree (west/Lugoff side). Accessing me in my new space requires a journey out of the city through sparsely developed countryside. Exercising some imagination, one might think of it like the journey of the ancients to reach the special, unique destination that contains the possibility for personal healing and growth. Intentional effort is required.

Licenses:

Donna W. Upchurch, PhD

APRN SC #4010; Utah #13567681-4405

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist SC #187

Clinical Specialist in Adult Psychiatry, Board Certified #0098089

Education:

Ph.D. in Counseling from the University of South Carolina

M.Ed. in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of South Carolina

B.S. in Nursing from Duke University