About Olive Tree

Helping individuals, couples, and families find peace since 2021
The outside of the Olive Tree Family Counseling Office in New Bern, NC
A group shot of the entire Olive Tree Family Counseling Team standing outside of their offices in New Bern, NC

The Heart Behind the Practice

We believe God ordained this practice and has provided the right staff at the right time to deliver professional care to our community. Our purpose is helping individuals, couples, and families find peace as they define it.

To accomplish that, our providers draw from a wide range of disciplines: licensed clinical mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed clinical addiction specialists, a psychiatrist, certified physician associates, and a certified health and wellness coach. This multidisciplinary approach allows us to address challenges from a systemic, biological, psychological, and spiritual perspective all at once.

A word about what faith-integrated care actually means: it does not involve proselytizing or any attempt to persuade individuals to embrace a particular religion. It is the recognition that a person's belief system — whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, or anything else — shapes how they understand the world and what healing looks like for them. The staff of Olive Tree accepts individuals as they are and works to help each person find peace and hope in ways that are congruent with their own worldview.

Rooted in These Values

We believe every person deserves to be treated with dignity, respect, and kindness. Our faith empowers our care for people, and we honor the beliefs of every individual who walks through our doors.

Compassion & Respect
Genuine care means meeting people where they are, treating each person as a whole human being worthy of kindness and respect, regardless of what they are walking through when they arrive.
Integrity & Professional Excellence
The people who come to us are trusting us with some of the hardest moments of their lives. We hold ourselves to the highest standard of clinical and ethical practice because that trust is something we take seriously.
Faith & Inclusivity
Our faith is what drives our care for people, and it also shapes how we receive them. Whatever a person believes, we honor it. Our job is to help each individual find peace within their own worldview, not ours.
Growth & Partnership
We are not just invested in helping people through a difficult season. We are committed to walking alongside our clients and our community in a way that builds something lasting.
Generosity & Service
We believe care is something to be given freely and fully. We look for every opportunity to serve the people and the community around us, because that is what we were built to do.

The Story of Olive Tree

Olive Tree has grown entirely in response to the need around us. What started as one room has grown into something we never could have planned.

2021

It Started With One Room

Opening day for Olive Tree was July 1, 2021. Our Founder, Dr. David Morrow, rented one room in an office building that housed ten other businesses such as a floor cleaning business, and an appliance repair shop. One by one, those other businesses vacated the building, and David was able to rent ten of the total eleven offices. Each time an office became available, Olive Tree needed to add additional staff to keep up with the demand of people seeking our therapeutic care.

Dr. David Morrow sitting in his office at the first Olive Tree Family Counseling location

2024

The Practice Starts to Spread

In 2024, we opened an additional location in Bayboro, and a third location in the James City area of New Bern. We also hired Mark Smith, who is a Duke Certified Health and Wellness Coach to start our Health and Wellness Division.

The Olive Tree Family Counseling team celebrating the opening of a new location with a ribbon cutting.

Early 2025

The Space Got Bigger, and So Did the Vision

With a staff of eighteen providers, and two administrative professionals, We were completely out of space in all three locations. We began to look for a larger office in January of 2025. We found an office on Trent Road that was just a shell of a building. The property manager said that we could design the offices. However, it was not large enough. He mentioned the building next to the Trent Road office was about to be vacant, and we agreed to move into that building in February 2025. During that same time period, one of our perspective therapist listed Dr. Jeremy Landvater as a reference on her application. When David called him, he said, “I must admit I am kinda jealous. That sounds like a great place to work.” This began a conversation that eventually started our psychiatry division.

A group of people standing outside of the new opening of an Olive Tree Family Counseling location in New Bern, NC

November 2025

More Space, More States, Same Mission

While we were waiting for the Trent Road property to be structurally completed, the property manager asked if we had people hired for those offices. We acknowledged that we had more than would fit. So, he mentioned two additional spaces on Commerce Drive, which is 0.2 miles from the McCarthy and Trent locations. In November of 2025, we moved into the Trent location, both Commerce locations, and we also opened our new location in Crawfordville Florida.

The team of Olive Tree Family Counseling celebrating the opening of a new location in New Bern, NC with a ribbon cutting.