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Dr. Rob Hamilton, Dmin
Pastoral Counselor
Rob Hamilton is a North Carolina Certified Pastoral Counseling Associate, an IBCC Board Certified Pastoral Counselor, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America with seventeen years of experience in full-time pastoral ministry. He earned a B.A. in Music from UNCW and Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Hayley, have enjoyed twenty-three years of marriage. Together they have five children.
Rob is a Certified PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator for premarital and marriage counseling and a HeartMath Certified Practitioner for stress, anxiety, and self-regulation.
Rob practices spiritually-integrated, faith-based counseling. He seeks to integrate the best of psychology with the theology of the Bible. His aim is to give hope to hurting people by getting to the heart of life's problems. He utilizes psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and solution-focused counseling approaches. His areas of specialty include anxiety, stress, depression, grief, marriage, perfectionism, pornography and sexual addictions, spiritual crises, and identity issues. He practices under the supervision of Dr. George Gates, DMin, LCMHC-S.