About

We meet people where they are.

Primary Behavioral Health is a group therapy practice serving Greensboro and the Piedmont Triad. We work in the space between routine outpatient care and hospital-level treatment, where so many people fall through the cracks.

Our Story

Where This Began

Soft sunlight breaking through a forest path, evoking roots that build resilience

Primary Behavioral Health was created by women who understand what happens when people are expected to hold everything together without enough support. The organization was built from lived experience, healthcare leadership, direct care, family commitment, and the belief that people deserve to be reached before crisis becomes the only option.

Compassion rooted. Community-driven. Healing focused.

The women behind Primary Behavioral Health have spent their lives caring for families, communities, children, professionals, and people navigating emotional strain. Their work is grounded in prevention, emotional safety, structured support, and the belief that healing begins when people feel seen, heard, and supported early enough to build stability.

Meet the Team

The women behind Primary Behavioral Health

Kim McClure

Owner and Administrator

Kim McClure brings more than twenty years of healthcare leadership, direct care experience, and operational expertise to Primary Behavioral Health. Her background includes Director of Nursing leadership, oversight of large healthcare facilities, memory care, home health, administrative experience, and supervision of nurses, therapists, aides, and care teams across regional service settings.

Kim's commitment to care began long before her professional career. From a young age, she was known for showing up for people, supporting her family, helping her community, and caring for those who needed stability. That same loyalty has shaped her entire career. In a lifetime of work, she has held only three full-time jobs, a testament to her consistency, dedication, and deep commitment to the people and organizations she serves.

After decades in healthcare systems, Kim saw how often support arrived after families had already reached a crisis. She came to believe that emotional safety is not an add-on to good care. It is good care. Primary Behavioral Health was created from that belief to offer structured, compassionate, prevention-focused support for individuals and families before they reach their worst day.

Octavia Harris

Marketing Specialist and Behavioral Health Program Consultant

Octavia Harris brings experience in behavioral health, curriculum development, emotional wellness education, storytelling marketing, and community-based support to Primary Behavioral Health. Her work is rooted in helping people understand themselves, build emotional awareness, and access support before burnout, crisis, or disconnection takes over.

As a Qualified Professional, Octavia returned to direct care after becoming a mother and worked with children from kindergarten through twelfth grade who had been removed from traditional classroom settings due to emotional and behavioral needs. Her work included cognitive behavioral therapy-informed support, motivational interviewing, structured group facilitation, and the development of a full year of behavioral health curriculum now used in day treatment programs across North Carolina.

Through that work, Octavia saw a growing need not only among children and families, but also among the professionals, caregivers, clinicians, teachers, and high-functioning adults carrying responsibility for everyone else. She recognized that many people appear strong on the outside while privately running on empty.

Octavia joined Primary Behavioral Health to help build a prevention-focused organization that reaches people earlier, supports referral partners, strengthens community trust, and creates a clear path to care for individuals and families who need structure, emotional safety, and support before crisis occurs.

Miranda Johnson, MSW, LCSWA

Outpatient Therapist

Miranda Johnson believes healing begins in the spaces where people finally feel seen, heard, and valued. Inspired by the lotus, the flower that rises from the muddiest water and blooms anyway, she carries into every session the conviction that growth often emerges from adversity, not in spite of it. As an Outpatient Therapist, she works with individuals and families navigating trauma, grief, life transitions, anxiety, depression, and the tender questions of identity and relationships. Her clinical focus reaches into the places people most often have to walk alone, childhood trauma, intergenerational trauma, and complex PTSD, and she sits with clients moving through every kind of loss, the loss of a person, yes, and also the quieter losses of a relationship, a career, a season of health, or the version of life they once imagined.

Her approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and strength-based, integrating evidence-based practices with each client's lived experience and values. She holds a particular love for the work of supporting Black and Brown women, especially through pregnancy, postpartum, and the deeper inheritance of generational patterns families carry without ever choosing to. In her room, multiple things can be true at the same time. People do not have to agree. Discomfort is welcome. What Miranda wants for every client is the same thing she works to protect for herself: the right to trust themselves again and to remember that the hardest thing they are showing right now does not define who they are or who they are still becoming. Healing, in her view, is collaborative work, and the goal is never just for one person. It is families, generations, and communities learning, together, how to move forward without sweeping anything under the rug.

Our Mission

Our Shared Mission

Three women embracing in a warm, supportive group hug

Together, Primary Behavioral Health is building a community-centered behavioral health organization designed to help people find support earlier, strengthen emotional resilience, and feel safe enough to heal.

We serve individuals, families, caregivers, professionals, and referral partners through structured behavioral health services that support stability, emotional regulation, coping skills, and long-term wellness.

Helping families feel safe enough to heal.

You were never given the tools. That is not a character flaw. It is a gap. And gaps can be filled.

Our Approach

A 12-week program built on evidence and community

Group therapy as the primary modality

CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing

12-week structured Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

Daytime programming schedule

Coordination with referring and existing providers

Post-program transition planning back to outpatient care

Our Team

Clinicians who do this work because they believe in it

Dr. Natalie Yates

Miranda

Therapist

Coming soon. We are excited to introduce Miranda to our growing clinical team.

Octavia Harris

Marketing Specialist

Octavia is the voice behind Primary Behavioral Health's outreach and the first friendly face many people encounter. She is passionate about making sure that anyone who needs support can actually find it, and that the path to getting help feels welcoming from the very first step.

Join Our Growing Team

We are looking for passionate clinicians and support staff who believe in meeting people before crisis occurs.

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Accreditations & Compliance

HIPAA CompliantCommunity Behavioral Health (251S00000X)Serving Greensboro & the Piedmont Triad