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Full-service testing facility offering all forms of psychological, educational, and forensic evaluations for all ages. |
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Lepage Associates Solution-Based
Psychological & Psychiatric Services
919-572-0000
MAIN OFFICE
5842 Fayetteville Road #106, Durham
SATELLITE PSYCHIATRY CLINIC
1340 Environ Way, Chapel Hill |
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Our main office provides an ideal location with excellent accessibility for all of our Triangle clients. Serving Durham, Chapel Hill, RTP, Morrisville, Cary, and Raleigh.
The perfect mid-point between Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Cary, Morrisville, and Durham, near RTP and only 1/2 mile off I-40:
• Durham - S. Durham near Southpoint Mall
• 5 minutes from RTP offices
• Chapel Hill - only 8 miles from CH center
• Morrisville - only 10 miles
• Cary - only 15 miles
• Raleigh - only 10 miles from W. Raleigh and a bit further from downtown
Our Satellite Psychiatry Clinic is also conveniently located just two miles off I-40 at exit 273 and just six miles from our main office. |
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Looking for a psychologist, therapist, counselor, or psychiatrist in the Triangle, NC (Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Cary, Research Triangle Park/RTP, and the surrounding areas)?
Our psychologists and psychiatrists can meet all of your mental health needs. In addition to our psychological and psychiatric services for adults, our team includes child psychologists, child therapists, child counselors, and child psychiatrists experienced in play therapy and child/teen therapy with children and adolescents.
Therapy/Counseling; Testing/Evaluation; Psychiatric Medication/Psychiatry; Medication Evaluation/Medication Management; Consultation; Mediation; and Coaching – by a highly experienced team of caring and competent doctors. Adult psychologists / child psychologists and adult psychiatrists /child psychiatrists.
Providing high-quality therapy and counseling, medication evaluation and management, psychological evaluation, educational evaluation, and forensic evaluation to Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Cary, Research Triangle Park/RTP and the surrounding areas of the Triangle, NC.
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The
collaborative process for divorce builds on mediation as an alternative
to traditional adversarial divorce in that attorneys try to help
clients amicably reach agreement, but it is notably different from
mediation in that the conversations to try to reach agreement are held in
four way meetings between attorneys and parties vs 3-way meetings with a
mediator and the parties. When impasses arise, outside experts (typically financial or child
specialists) may be used; some collaborative attorneys encouarge
clients to use experts early in the process to avoid impasses (see our Divorce Expert-Team Approach for an integrated collaborative model
that involves all relevant specialists from the start).
The most unique feature of the collaborative process is the signing of
the collaborative pledge, in which divorcing spouses and their
attorneys all agree that the attorneys are disqualified from going to
court. This disqualification removes the process from the adversarial
court system, the theory being that removing the threat of contentious
litigation will take the fear, hostility, and negativity out of the
negotiations and instead allow parties to utilize non-adversarial
conflict resolution and interest-based negotiation to come to a fair
settlement agreement.
Many traditional/adversarial attorneys will say, when asked if they do
“collaborative divorce,” that they do
“collaborative,” but they may simply mean that they
are willing to avoid adversary and try to work amicably; however, it is
not truly collaborative divorce unless parties and attorneys sign the
collaborative pledge, so a better question would be at ask an attorney
if they sign the collabortiave pledge barring themselves from
representing you in litigation. Another good question to ask is what
specific training the attorney has had in collaborative divorce
and alternative dispute resolution. Collaborative divorce minimizes or
eliminates the negative consequences of adversarial litigation in the
family arena by:
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avoiding
litigation and lawsuits |
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coordinating problem solving |
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minimizing conflict between
separating/divorcing individuals |
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providing legal representation to each
individual |
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assisting couples in making sound and
thoughtful decisions about the future for themselves and their children |
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minimizing the expense of divorce |
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addressing short-term and long-term financial
concerns |
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jointly
retaining experts as needed (for example, financial specialists and
child specialists) |
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protects families from unnecessary resource
depletion |
Studies show that a collaborative settlement is reached faster than
settlement in traditional divorce negotiation and greatly reduces the
emotional trauma families experience in divorce, especially children.
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