Integrated Therapy Associates

About Integrated Therapy Associates
We are a group of licensed psychologists, counselors, and social workers, practicing independently under one roof.
We provide state of the art psychological counseling, trauma therapy, and EMDR, in a calming and supportive environment. Our approach is holistic in nature in that we consider the mental, physical, and emotional aspects of each individual’s experiences. Our intention is to facilitate healing, growth, and change as each individual moves forward on the path towards a calm mind, a well body, and a peaceful heart.
Dr. Gold is a licensed psychologist who has extensive training and experience in helping people deal with the broad range of concerns that present across the life span. Additionally, she has developed expertise in addressing eating disorders, compulsive eating, sexual, emotional and physical trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and women’s issues.

She believes that a crucial component of effective therapy involves helping people gain awareness of the ways that past experiences impact current feelings and beliefs. By providing a warm and caring therapeutic environment, her intention is to help individuals approach their issues with increased levels of compassion, thereby facilitating positive change and growth. This allows old patterns to be released making way for more positive and productive ways of relating to self and others. Dr. Gold provides individual, couples, and group therapy.


Dr. Gold views the body, mind, and spirit as being integrally connected. As such, her approach involves a consideration of the entire context of a person’s life. This perspective has led her to pursue post-graduate training in several innovative and cutting edge modalities that actually can help to “speed up” the healing process. These include : EMDR, HeartMath®, Energy Psychology®, and clinical hypnosis (see below)

Dr. Gold has worked in the field of psychotherapy for close to thirty years, and has been practicing in Wilmington since 1994. She initially provided services in university settings including the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. While employed at UNCW she assisted with the inception of two annual art exhibits, which featured works created by Survivors of sexual abuse. She subsequently coordinated two women’s conferences at the university, Many Women, Many Stories and Whole Woman, New Millennium. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Arizona , a M.A. in Marriage and Family counseling from the University of California , Santa Barbara , and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois , Urbana.

Margaret Mensch, MEd, LPC has 8 years of experience working in individual and family therapy. She strives to provide quality and compassionate care by helping clients to gain insight, grow, and heal, through the therapeutic process. Her passion is guiding, inspiring, and teaching skills to people, so that they feel empowered to overcome life’s challenges. Ms. Mensch approaches the therapeutic process through a humanistic lens, using modalities and theories that help fit her clients needs including cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness training, and solution focused work.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Excelsior College while completing 6 years in the US Army. Following her time with the military she earned her Masters of Education in Counseling from Tarleton State University in Texas. She worked in Texas, as well as in New Hanover County, as a special education teacher which has fostered her passion to work with children and teens with emotional, academic, social, and behavioral concerns as well as challenges related to divorce and blended families. Ms. Mensch has experience treating adults with adjustment disorders, anxiety, OCD, depression, grief/loss, personality issues, marital and work related problems.

Ms. Mensch also has experience working as an early childhood mental health consultant helping evaluate social and emotional development in students and then developing, accessing, and providing, resources for parents and teachers. She also works as an Executive Coach and Facilitator for a leadership workshop with a local Industrial/Organizational Leadership Company.
Ms. Menschís passion lies in helping others, regardless of age, reach their fullest potential despite perceived barriers and limitations. Her belief is that everyone has limitless potential when they gain the perspective that they have control over their responses to life situations.
Beth Westmoreland, MSW, LCSW, CPP is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has spent the last decade working in a variety of settings, helping families deal with unique challenges.