Therapists in Ellijay, GA

Providing multicultural mental health and addiction treatment. Especializing in trauma, anxiety and depression. Bilingual (Spanish/English).

Let's give your relationship the attention it deserves. Managing one relationship is hard enough on its own. But as a thriving professional, you have to manage multiple. Now it feels like your relationships are playing tug-of-war, with you in the center, and these professional obligations are placing an unflinching strain on your personal relationship. Your partner wants more. Your professional obligations want more. You can feel your relationship slipping right out of your hands. You know this can’t last forever, but you still don’t know where to start. Let’s talk!

Viktor Frankl said "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." I find building healthy client/therapist relationships very satisfying. I enjoy working with clients who are open to growth. I am the mother of 3 young adult daughters. I am active in my profession by having served on the Board of Directors as President in 2018-19 as well as 3 prior terms as Western District Chair, for The Licensed Professional Counselors Association of GA (LPCA-GA). I am Certified as a Clinical Supervisor by LPCA-GA, a Clinical Trauma Professional & as a Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider.

A clinically trained therapist with a focus on the mind-body connection, I offer a unique approach that blends empirically supported techniques and research-based interventions to help my clients. We will work together to help you effectively release psychological barriers and emotional blocks that are in your way. These may be keeping you stuck, holding you back from reaching your potential, or preventing you from moving forward. They may be keeping you from having healthy relationships with family members or friends or romantic partners, or could be affecting your overall well-being and ability to feel happy living a life you love

I have been a Counselor and Psychotherapist, Inpatient and Outpatient, for almost 20 years. I work with people who are having difficulties with Anxiety, Depression, Mood Disorders, Trauma, and many other disruptions to their personal lives. I think that anyone can heal if they intend to, and I know many ways to help them do that.

I believe therapy helps us understand the power of the mind. This is especially useful when we feel disconnected, marginalized, or stigmatized. When we feel this way, learning how the mind channels this information through thoughts, feelings, emotions, and perceptions, can influence us to recognize our own cognitive processes and how they impact our life. If we attend to our cognitive processes in a healthy way, it may lead to regulation of mood, clarity, balance and feelings of peace. We start to evolve and accept certain things about ourselves. We begin to feel at peace from within. I help my clients through this process.

You have survived and achieved so much in your life. I have too. My work as a mental health therapist is to pass on the gifts of those kind helpers who were there for me. I believe in the healthy changes that result from interpersonal connection, the power of creative expression, honesty, and above all: hope. I would be honored to help turn your struggles into healthy coping strategies.