First Responders Therapists in Lagrange, GA
Still Waters Counseling & Assessments has Licensed Professional Counselors and Licensed Psychologists on staff. We provide therapy and comprehensive psychological evaluations for adolescents and adults, including ADHD assessments, memory and cognitive testing, and diagnostic clarification. Evaluations use evidence-based measures and structured clinical interviews to ensure accuracy. Particular expertise includes assessment of attention, executive functioning, and related concerns. Our psychologists participate in PSYPACT and offer in-person and telehealth services in participating states.
Still Waters Counseling & Assessments has Licensed Professional Counselors and Licensed Psychologists on staff. We provide therapy and comprehensive psychological evaluations for adolescents and adults, including ADHD assessments, memory and cognitive testing, and diagnostic clarification. Evaluations use evidence-based measures and structured clinical interviews to ensure accuracy. Particular expertise includes assessment of attention, executive functioning, and related concerns. Our psychologists participate in PSYPACT and offer in-person and telehealth services in participating states.
My professional path has been shaped by extensive clinical experience and military service.
Prior to becoming a mental health therapist, I served as a Combat Medic in the United States Army and also worked as a psychiatric nurse, providing care to individuals in acute mental health crises across diverse treatment settings.
My professional path has been shaped by extensive clinical experience and military service.
Prior to becoming a mental health therapist, I served as a Combat Medic in the United States Army and also worked as a psychiatric nurse, providing care to individuals in acute mental health crises across diverse treatment settings.
Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or feeling disconnected? Many of my clients come to therapy carrying the impact of trauma, anxiety, grief, addiction, or painful relationship patterns. They want relief, clarity, and deeper connection, but feel unsure how to get there. I work with individuals, couples, and families to heal at the root, strengthen marriages, and break cycles that keep you stuck. Together, we process trauma, improve communication, rebuild trust, and create healthier ways of coping, connecting, and moving forward so healing and lasting change feel possible again with support and guidance.
Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or feeling disconnected? Many of my clients come to therapy carrying the impact of trauma, anxiety, grief, addiction, or painful relationship patterns. They want relief, clarity, and deeper connection, but feel unsure how to get there. I work with individuals, couples, and families to heal at the root, strengthen marriages, and break cycles that keep you stuck. Together, we process trauma, improve communication, rebuild trust, and create healthier ways of coping, connecting, and moving forward so healing and lasting change feel possible again with support and guidance.
Do you often feel weighed down by the recurring patterns in your relationships? Is it getting harder to get through the day-to-day? I am dedicated to helping individuals, couples & families navigate life's challenges and strengthen their relationships. I am committed to creating a safe, non-judgmental space to support your growth and healing. Education, experience, and practice have honed my therapeutic skills to work well with working with client's experiencing anxiety, mood disorders, and challenges with adjusting to life transitions and/or life after trauma.
Do you often feel weighed down by the recurring patterns in your relationships? Is it getting harder to get through the day-to-day? I am dedicated to helping individuals, couples & families navigate life's challenges and strengthen their relationships. I am committed to creating a safe, non-judgmental space to support your growth and healing. Education, experience, and practice have honed my therapeutic skills to work well with working with client's experiencing anxiety, mood disorders, and challenges with adjusting to life transitions and/or life after trauma.
I work with individuals, couples, and families who feel stuck in painful or repetitive patterns—whether in relationships, anxiety, or unresolved past experiences. Many of my clients are insightful and capable, yet feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. Together, we identify patterns shaped by relationships and past experiences, and create new ways of relating, coping, and responding. My goal is to help you feel more secure, connected, and in control of your life and relationships.
I work with individuals, couples, and families who feel stuck in painful or repetitive patterns—whether in relationships, anxiety, or unresolved past experiences. Many of my clients are insightful and capable, yet feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. Together, we identify patterns shaped by relationships and past experiences, and create new ways of relating, coping, and responding. My goal is to help you feel more secure, connected, and in control of your life and relationships.
Positive change is achievable when you have a supportive and understanding guide. Life can bring uncertainty, stress, and obstacles that feel overwhelming, and seeking help is often the first step toward clarity and growth. With 25 years of counseling experience, including several years as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), I have helped adolescents and adults navigate challenges, build resilience, and create more fulfilling, balanced lives. In therapy, I work collaboratively with clients to address issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, stress, and relationship difficulties.
Positive change is achievable when you have a supportive and understanding guide. Life can bring uncertainty, stress, and obstacles that feel overwhelming, and seeking help is often the first step toward clarity and growth. With 25 years of counseling experience, including several years as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), I have helped adolescents and adults navigate challenges, build resilience, and create more fulfilling, balanced lives. In therapy, I work collaboratively with clients to address issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, stress, and relationship difficulties.
Rachel Cardona
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW
2 Endorsed
Lagrange, GA 30240
Waitlist for new clients
I bring a unique perspective and a deep passion for helping people process, cope with, and recover from trauma and attachment disorders. I use evidence-based practices in individual sessions, with a trauma-informed approach that includes client-centered CBT, TF-CBT, EMDR, MI, DBT, and mindfulness. My specialties include trauma, PTSD, bereavement, parental issues, anxiety, and depression. I provide empathic and holistic care, believing that an empowering and collaborative process is essential for healing and change.
I bring a unique perspective and a deep passion for helping people process, cope with, and recover from trauma and attachment disorders. I use evidence-based practices in individual sessions, with a trauma-informed approach that includes client-centered CBT, TF-CBT, EMDR, MI, DBT, and mindfulness. My specialties include trauma, PTSD, bereavement, parental issues, anxiety, and depression. I provide empathic and holistic care, believing that an empowering and collaborative process is essential for healing and change.
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I work with veterans, first responders, and adults navigating trauma, life transitions, anxiety, loss, relationship challenges, and questions of meaning and purpose.
My specialty is helping people transform adversity into growth. I integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, posttraumatic growth principles, existential and humanistic psychology, mindfulness, and nature-based practices. My approach helps clients develop resilience, deepen self-understanding, and take meaningful action toward the life they want to live.
I work with veterans, first responders, and adults navigating trauma, life transitions, anxiety, loss, relationship challenges, and questions of meaning and purpose.
My specialty is helping people transform adversity into growth. I integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, posttraumatic growth principles, existential and humanistic psychology, mindfulness, and nature-based practices. My approach helps clients develop resilience, deepen self-understanding, and take meaningful action toward the life they want to live.
The world in which we live presents us with multiple stressors and intense pressure. Life can get complicated and messy. When it does, it helps to have someone who has been there, done that, but also has the ability to lead you to proven, evidence-based solutions. With my diverse experiences, I integrate various perspectives and disciplines in therapy to help people develop motivation, experience change, and find purpose and meaning in life. My approach is relational, as well as, professional. I hope you trust me to lead you to develop new perspectives and skills that will give you direction and fulfillment.
The world in which we live presents us with multiple stressors and intense pressure. Life can get complicated and messy. When it does, it helps to have someone who has been there, done that, but also has the ability to lead you to proven, evidence-based solutions. With my diverse experiences, I integrate various perspectives and disciplines in therapy to help people develop motivation, experience change, and find purpose and meaning in life. My approach is relational, as well as, professional. I hope you trust me to lead you to develop new perspectives and skills that will give you direction and fulfillment.
I’m Avril Phillips, LCSW — a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia, Maine, and Utah. I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside individuals as they navigate some of their most challenging moments. My work has allowed me to support people facing depression, anxiety, major life transitions, grief support and other emotional or mental health concerns, and it’s something I am truly passionate about.
I’m Avril Phillips, LCSW — a licensed clinical social worker in Georgia, Maine, and Utah. I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside individuals as they navigate some of their most challenging moments. My work has allowed me to support people facing depression, anxiety, major life transitions, grief support and other emotional or mental health concerns, and it’s something I am truly passionate about.
Hi there! I'm glad you're here. Looking for a therapist can feel overwhelming and I know how important it is to find someone you feel comfortable with. I offer genuine support grounded in compassion and creativity in a cozy space where you can fully be yourself. Together, we'll explore the challenges you're facing, reconnect with the strengths you already carry, and work toward a life that feels more aligned, fulfilling, and authentic.
Hi there! I'm glad you're here. Looking for a therapist can feel overwhelming and I know how important it is to find someone you feel comfortable with. I offer genuine support grounded in compassion and creativity in a cozy space where you can fully be yourself. Together, we'll explore the challenges you're facing, reconnect with the strengths you already carry, and work toward a life that feels more aligned, fulfilling, and authentic.
Lisa King Smith
Licensed Professional Counselor, EdS, LPC, CPCS, CCTP, NBC-HWC
1 Endorsed
Serves Area
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. I am Certified as a Clinical Supervisor by LPCA-GA, a Clinical Trauma Professional & as a Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider.
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. I am Certified as a Clinical Supervisor by LPCA-GA, a Clinical Trauma Professional & as a Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider.
I am a veteran and a Licensed Professional Counselor, currently licensed in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Ohio, with diverse experience across military, clinical, and school-based settings.
I have received training and certifications in a range of evidence-based therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based interventions, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
I am a veteran and a Licensed Professional Counselor, currently licensed in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Ohio, with diverse experience across military, clinical, and school-based settings.
I have received training and certifications in a range of evidence-based therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), mindfulness-based interventions, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT).
As a therapist, our purpose is to reflect back what people bring to us in a way that allows them to unlock their own doors. Emotional development in people of all ages is an ongoing cycle throughout the lifespan. Dr. Fish began her career as a Music Therapist, and later returned to obtain her doctorate in clinical psychology which she completed in 2002. Treatment can include individual, family or group therapy based on specific needs. Clinical supervision for practitioners working towards licensure is also available.
As a therapist, our purpose is to reflect back what people bring to us in a way that allows them to unlock their own doors. Emotional development in people of all ages is an ongoing cycle throughout the lifespan. Dr. Fish began her career as a Music Therapist, and later returned to obtain her doctorate in clinical psychology which she completed in 2002. Treatment can include individual, family or group therapy based on specific needs. Clinical supervision for practitioners working towards licensure is also available.
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I believe we all possess an innate capacity for resilience and change that becomes accessible in safe relationships. I also believe that emotional health is not the absence of discomfort, but the willingness to engage honestly with the full range of our experience while moving toward what matters most. These convictions guide my work.
I believe we all possess an innate capacity for resilience and change that becomes accessible in safe relationships. I also believe that emotional health is not the absence of discomfort, but the willingness to engage honestly with the full range of our experience while moving toward what matters most. These convictions guide my work.
Stephanie Brookins
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, NCC, LPC, EMDR-C
1 Endorsed
Columbus, GA 31904
Waitlist for new clients
I'm grateful to have been working with clients toward healing, growth and connection since 2003. It's exciting to be a part of that journey and I admire the courage and commitment that it takes to make change happen. My approach to therapy is to help people identify their goals and the path they'd like to take towards meeting them. I see the therapist role as an active one, providing an honest and direct perspective while honoring each person as their own best expert on themselves and their lives. I see therapists and clients as partners in recovery.
I'm grateful to have been working with clients toward healing, growth and connection since 2003. It's exciting to be a part of that journey and I admire the courage and commitment that it takes to make change happen. My approach to therapy is to help people identify their goals and the path they'd like to take towards meeting them. I see the therapist role as an active one, providing an honest and direct perspective while honoring each person as their own best expert on themselves and their lives. I see therapists and clients as partners in recovery.
You’ve spent years being the strong one for everyone else, you might feel lost, overwhelmed, or unsure who you are underneath it all. I help queer and transgender people healing from trauma, especially those leaving controlling environments or exploring identity later in life. You don’t have to have the right words or clear goals—just a sense that something isn’t right is enough. Therapy can be a place to finally exhale and begin to feel like yourself.
You’ve spent years being the strong one for everyone else, you might feel lost, overwhelmed, or unsure who you are underneath it all. I help queer and transgender people healing from trauma, especially those leaving controlling environments or exploring identity later in life. You don’t have to have the right words or clear goals—just a sense that something isn’t right is enough. Therapy can be a place to finally exhale and begin to feel like yourself.
Does life have you feeling overwhelmed or stuck? Perhaps you are feeling weighed down by stress and demands or haunted by intrusive thoughts? Know there is hope and freedom. In a world full of noise, I hold a quiet, safe space for you to speak, to explore, and to transform. My focus is on you and helping you grow and thrive. Addiction, anxiety, depression, grief, and OCD are just a few issues I have helped clients address.
Does life have you feeling overwhelmed or stuck? Perhaps you are feeling weighed down by stress and demands or haunted by intrusive thoughts? Know there is hope and freedom. In a world full of noise, I hold a quiet, safe space for you to speak, to explore, and to transform. My focus is on you and helping you grow and thrive. Addiction, anxiety, depression, grief, and OCD are just a few issues I have helped clients address.
Feeling stuck even after past therapy? I specialize in online therapy for adults with anxiety, trauma, depression, and overthinking who want deeper change. I use EMDR, CBT, and mindfulness-based therapy to help high-functioning individuals move beyond insight and create real, lasting shifts. If you’re tired of patterns that won’t fully resolve—despite understanding them—our work will focus on practical tools and deeper processing so you can feel more grounded, in control, and free to move forward. Therapy with me is non-judgemental, supportive, and evidence-based. If you're ready to take your next step, reach out for a free consult.
Feeling stuck even after past therapy? I specialize in online therapy for adults with anxiety, trauma, depression, and overthinking who want deeper change. I use EMDR, CBT, and mindfulness-based therapy to help high-functioning individuals move beyond insight and create real, lasting shifts. If you’re tired of patterns that won’t fully resolve—despite understanding them—our work will focus on practical tools and deeper processing so you can feel more grounded, in control, and free to move forward. Therapy with me is non-judgemental, supportive, and evidence-based. If you're ready to take your next step, reach out for a free consult.
I work collaboratively with clients and strive to give concrete tools that can help clients today and in the future with their concerns. I know therapy can be difficult but I will be a partner in your process! Thank you for reaching out for assistance. I look forward to meeting you and working with you to achieve your goals.
I work collaboratively with clients and strive to give concrete tools that can help clients today and in the future with their concerns. I know therapy can be difficult but I will be a partner in your process! Thank you for reaching out for assistance. I look forward to meeting you and working with you to achieve your goals.
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Why is mental health important for first responders?
As part of their work, first responders are often exposed to high levels of stress, trauma, and physical injury that can put them at a greater risk for serious mental health conditions than the general population. Conditions like PTSD, anxiety, substance use, and depression are more common in first responders, which can greatly reduce quality of life and lead to burnout, sleep disruption, and even suicidal thoughts. Therapy can offer an opportunity for first responders to process difficult on-the-job experiences and develop coping skills to better manage any mental health symptoms they may experience.
How can first responders get access to mental health support?
Many first responders can access therapy for free or at a very low cost through their employer, such as through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Workplaces may also offer or have referral recommendations for support groups, where first responders can meet with others in their profession to receive support. Individuals who would like to access mental health services outside of their employer may use their insurance benefits to see a therapist, which they can find by searching for therapists online or asking for recommendations from their primary care physician.
What type of therapy is best for first responders?
The best therapy approach depends on the mental health concerns of the client. Since many first responders struggle with trauma or PTSD, they may benefit from trauma-specific therapeutic approaches, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Exposure Therapy, or Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). Individuals with symptoms of anxiety, depression, or stress may alternatively benefit from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or mindfulness-based therapeutic approaches, which can help clients develop coping skills to manage distressing thoughts.
Can therapy for first responders help with trauma and PTSD?
Therapy can be highly effective in both treating and preventing trauma and PTSD in first responders. Typically, therapy for trauma and PTSD focuses on developing stress management skills and managing intrusive or unwanted thoughts. Therapists working with first responders often help clients strengthen their relationships and reduce harmful coping mechanisms, such as excessive substance use. Additionally, therapists assist first responders in establishing daily habits that support overall mental and physical health and enhance resilience to future stress, such as regular physical exercise, mindfulness practices, and improved eating habits.