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title: "Who We Help | Shepherd's Heart Counseling, Siler City NC"
url: https://shepherds-he.art/who-we-help
description: "Counseling for parents of teens, parents of young children, and North Carolina educators and state employees. Direct, grounded support based in Siler City, NC."
lang: en
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Who we help

# The people who show up here.

You might be worn out from carrying something for someone else — a teen who has gone quiet, a young child whose behavior is running the house, a classroom or a caseload of kids who aren't yours but land at your feet every morning.

The pages below are written for those three groups specifically. If none of them sound like you, that's fine — the specialties (https://shepherds-he.art/specialties) page is organized around what's going wrong at home rather than who you are.

Care is provided by John C. Murphy, MA, LCMHC (https://shepherds-he.art/about), licensed in North Carolina. Therapy is available only to clients physically located in NC.

Who we help

## Choose the group that sounds most like you.

## Parents of Teens

For parents of 13–17 year olds — when they've stopped talking, stopped listening, and you can feel the door closing.

Learn more →
https://shepherds-he.art/who-we-help/parents-of-teens

## Parents of Young Children

For parents of roughly 2–9 year olds — the years everyone calls precious and nobody calls hard.

Learn more →
https://shepherds-he.art/who-we-help/parents-of-young-children

## NC Educators & State Employees

For teachers, school staff, juvenile-justice and youth workers — the people who hold everyone else's kids together.

Learn more →
https://shepherds-he.art/who-we-help/nc-educators-and-state-employees

Also on this site

## More people this work is for.

### Foster and Adoptive Parents

For foster and adoptive parents carrying a child's hard history alongside their own exhaustion, who need a place to think clearly about what the child needs.

Learn more →
https://shepherds-he.art/who-we-help/foster-and-adoptive-parents

### Young Adults

For young adults sorting out anxiety, mood, a hard transition, or a complicated relationship with family, in person or by video.

Learn more →
https://shepherds-he.art/who-we-help/young-adults

Next step

## Ready to try something that works?

A free 15-minute consultation. Send a request and John will get back to you with times that actually work — no pressure, no forms up front.

Request a Free Consultation: https://shepherds-he.art/contact

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