If there was one thing you wish people knew about the therapy experience who might be hesitant to try it, what would that be?
Approaching therapy with a learners' mindset and the openness for change can produce incredible shifts in perception.
In what ways have your personal experiences influenced your work with your clients?
I am in recovery from alcohol abuse and have proudly accumulated close to 12 years of continuous sobriety, one day at a time.
In what ways does your personality influence your approach to therapy?
My approach to therapy is that of non-judgement and unconditional compassion for my client.
Specialties
Depression
Depression often causes people to feel sad, empty, or hopeless, and can cause a lack of interest in life. It can also affect a person's thinking patterns and physical health.
Anxiety
Anxiety can mean nervousness, worry, or self-doubt. Anxiety disorder is a mental health disorder that entails excessive, repeated bouts of worry, anxiety, and/or fear.
Addiction
Regular involvement with a substance or activity in a compulsive, hard to control way that often has harmful consequences. Often refers to substance use, but can include compulsive behaviors such as sex, gambling, or shopping.
General Expertise
Loss/Grief
Grief is a reaction to an emotionally significant loss and often comes with symptoms of depression or anxiety. These symptoms can remain intense and last for a long time after a loss, making it difficult to move forward with a healthy lifestyle.
Academic challenges
Concerns that impact school performance or academic life. Can include perfectionism, bullying, financial stress, academic transitions, test anxiety, balancing school with other responsibilities, discrimination, or harassment.
Abuse/Survivors of abuse
Abuse includes any significant mistreatment along the lines of psychical, emotional, sexual, verbal, and neglect. Survivors of abuse may experience negative thoughts and feelings, flashbacks, distrust of others, social withdrawal, self-harm, and increased likelihood of developing mental health and substance abuse issues.
Adolescent mental health
Adolescent mental health focuses on adolescent-specific experiences including physical and cognitive development, social and environmental factors, sex, sexual identification and orientation, emotional processing, and substance use. Given the influence that parents/guardians have on adolescents, home life is a particularly important consideration.
Attachment issues
Children that experience parents and/or guardians that are avoidant, ambivalent, or resistant from an early age, may develop attachment issues. This can manifest as difficulty forming or maintaining friendships, romantic relationships and empathetic bonds throughout life, as well as other issues.
Fees
$165
First Session
$135
Individual Therapy
Types of Therapy
Individual Session
Clientele
Parents
Young Adults (18-24)
Adults (25-65)
Seniors (65+)
Treatment Approaches / Modalities
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness Practices
Compassion-Focused Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Pastoral & Faith Based Counseling
Training / Certifications
Certified in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Licensure
GA, LPC, LPC011650
Education
Masters in Professional Counseling
Work History
Welcome and congratulations on taking the meaningful first step in your journey to achieving mental health well-being. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia and over the past 15 years, I have successfully treated people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, stress/burnout, grief, relationship changes/divorce and those seeking tools to achieve mindfulness, wellness and spiritual reconnection to their inner-knowingness. I work from an approach of developing Emotional Maturity and personal empowerment.
Location
PO Box 3309, Atlanta, 30316, GA