The Body Keeps the Score

Registration is now open for a special program with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, renowned trauma expert and author of The Body Keeps the Score, on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at NC State University in Raleigh.

Presented by the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas in celebration of 60 years of psychoanalytic education, the day includes a morning public lecture on the impact of trauma across the lifespan and an afternoon session for clinicians on psychotherapy for developmental trauma.

Welcome New Faculty

Greg Helton, MD is originally from Chattanooga, TN, where he lived until attending medical school at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. From there, he went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his residency training in psychiatry.  Since graduating from residency 10 years ago, he has been practicing at MindPath Health (formerly Carolina Partners in Mental Healthcare), which is a group practice with several locations in the Triangle. He is currently working at the Chapel Hill office seeing adults. Being a psychoanalyst is unique in this clinic setting, and he finds value in bridging the gap between working psychoanalytically and being a psychopharmacologist.

Felecia Powell-Williams, EdD is a child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in

private practice in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of the Center of Psychoanalytic Studies –Texas (CFPS) where she held the position of President of the Board of Directors from 2019 to 2025. Dr. Powell-Williams currently holds CFPS positions of Co-chair of the Child and Adolescent Training Program and Chair of the Faculty Committee. She is an active board member of the Houston Psychoanalytic Society and the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAn), and holds several committee appointments with the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA). 

Dr. Powell-Williams is a Child and Adult Training and Supervising Analyst. She provides clinical supervision for the State of Texas licensing board, as well as supervision as a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Powell-Williams teaches on a collegiate level, and provides clinical consultation and professional training with many local, state, and national organizations on recognizing the need of mental health services for children, adolescents, adults, and families.