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Ryan Snider

Ryan Snider

Therapeutic Recovery Network

Cumming, GA

Ryan Snider works with teens, young adults, and adults experiencing grief, anxiety, trauma, depression, life transitions, identity struggles, and relationship challenges, including religious and spiritual deconstruction or trauma. He has a particular passion for supporting clients who feel stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed, or uncertain following significant loss, major life changes, or shifts in identity, purpose, or belief systems. ​Ryan’s work often centers on helping clients make sense of difficult experiences, untangle inherited narratives, and reconnect with a deeper sense of meaning, authenticity, and direction. He is especially attuned to individuals navigating questions of faith, spirituality, identity, and belonging, whether they are deconstructing long-held beliefs, grieving spiritual loss, or seeking a more integrated and self-directed path forward. Ryan’s approach is grounded in existential therapy and integrates acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help clients develop greater self-awareness, emotional insight, and more empowering narratives. Ryan collaborates best with clients ready to engage in value-oriented work, question the status quo, and honestly assess their freedoms and limitations.  Alongside this reflective and insight-oriented work, Ryan also incorporates DBT-informed interventions to provide practical tools for managing anxiety, regulating emotions, improving coping skills, and navigating everyday stressors. His approach balances emotional depth with structure and practical support. At the core of Ryan’s work is the belief that therapy should be a collaborative, authentic, and relational experience grounded in trust, acceptance, and compassion. He strives to create a warm, nonjudgmental environment where clients feel safe exploring grief, uncertainty, doubt, healing, and growth at their own pace.

Men's Issues Addiction Spirituality Depression Grief
Antonio Cordero

Antonio Cordero

Therapeutic Recovery Network

Cumming, GA

Antonio Cordero is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who works with adolescents, adults, couples, athletes, and professionals seeking meaningful growth, healing, and greater overall well-being. He earned his master’s degree in counseling psychology with a specialization in sport psychology from Boston University and also serves as a team therapist for the Philadelphia Phillies. Antonio understands that outward success does not always reflect what someone may be experiencing internally. Many of his clients come to counseling while navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship challenges, life transitions, or the pressures of performance and achievement. He provides a supportive space where clients can better understand how past experiences impact their present lives while developing practical tools to move forward with greater confidence and purpose. With extensive training in EMDR, brainspotting, CBT, DBT, and polyvagal theory, Antonio uses an integrated, evidence-based approach tailored to each client’s individual needs. His counseling style balances support with appropriate challenge, helping clients build an authentic therapeutic relationship and a clear, intentional path toward their goals. Born in Mishawaka, Indiana, Antonio grew up in Costa Rica before returning to the United States for college. A former four-year NCAA soccer player, his personal and professional experiences give him a unique understanding of identity, relationships, life transitions, and the pressures that can accompany high achievement.

Trauma Anxiety Mood Disorders PTSD Sports Performance
Audrey Hughes

Audrey Hughes

Marietta, GA

Are you tired of trying to heal on your own?  Relying solely on your own efforts? Sometimes our friends and family members are unable to help. I am an experienced clinician who is passionate about helping people heal from trauma. Trauma can be caused by one experience such as a car accident, divorce or assault. It can also be the result of a series of events that took place over time. Trauma can lead to feeling alone, having difficulty trusting, feeling trapped, guilty, angry or like we don't fit in. There is hope regardless of what you are experiencing. Maybe a family member that was supposed to protect, nurture and love you as a child did not. Maybe a spouse has betrayed your trust. Has your parenting experience led to painful feelings about your own upbringing that you cannot seem to resolve? I can help you process emotions related to trauma and learn how to take care of your heart, mind and body. With warmth, integrity and direction, I provide a safe place to receive help. I offer a fresh perspective and counseling based on years of research and experience.

PTSD Trauma Codependency Grief Women's Issues
Kirsten Banks, LPC, CPCS, CAI, CIP

Kirsten Banks, LPC, CPCS, CAI, CIP

Therapeutic Recovery Network

Cumming, GA

Kirsten Banks is a licensed professional counselor (LPC), certified professional counselor supervisor (CPCS), and nationally certified interventionist with more than 25 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families find hope, healing, and a path forward. As founder and clinical director of Therapeutic Recovery Network, Kirsten’s work is rooted in compassionate, whole-family care, and addressing the deeper issues that can keep individuals and families feeling stuck. Kirsten specializes in trauma, relationships, family challenges, substance use and addiction, recovery, and complex life circumstances. She provides individual, couples, family, and trauma therapy and can incorporate Christian faith and biblical principles into counseling for clients who desire a faith-based approach. With extensive training in EMDR, emotionally focused therapy (EFT), progressive counting, the flash technique, and polyvagal-informed trauma therapy, Kirsten uses evidence-based approaches tailored to each client’s unique needs. Her style combines warmth and compassion with practical guidance, helping clients understand underlying patterns, heal from painful experiences, strengthen relationships, and create meaningful, lasting change. Kirsten is also a certified ARISE® interventionist (CAI) and certified intervention professional (CIP), helping families navigate substance use, mental health concerns, treatment placement, and recovery. She has worked across nearly every level of behavioral healthcare, from outpatient counseling to inpatient treatment. Kirsten has volunteered in the recovery community for more than 20 years and has served in youth ministry at her local church, reflecting her longstanding commitment to faith, families, and her community.

Addiction Substance Abuse Trauma Codependency Alcohol Abuse
Julane Fisher

Julane Fisher

Therapeutic Recovery Network

Cumming, GA

Julane Fisher is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and national certified counselor (NCC) who provides Christian counseling for teens, young adults, and adults navigating grief, anxiety, trauma, depression, caregiver stress, burnout, and difficult life transitions. She earned her master’s degree in professional counseling from Georgia State University and completed a certificate in Christian counseling through Psychological Studies Institute. Julane is passionate about creating a warm, supportive space where clients feel truly seen, heard, and understood. For clients who desire it, she thoughtfully integrates Christian faith and biblical principles into the counseling process, helping them find hope, healing, and renewed purpose through life’s most challenging seasons. Julane is a certified child and adolescent grief counseling specialist, certified grief informed professional, and certified clinical anxiety treatment professional. Her approach incorporates evidence-based modalities including EMDR, narrative therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused therapy, and trauma-informed care to help clients process difficult experiences, build resilience, and develop practical tools for lasting change. In addition to her clinical work, Julane is an award-winning published author, speaker, and advocate for children and families. She has written three children’s and young adult novels and has spoken to thousands of students across Georgia, encouraging resilience, healthy relationships, and positive family values. Julane also volunteers with Jesse’s House, supporting adolescent girls in need of a safe and nurturing environment.

Grief Anxiety Trauma PTSD Life Transitions
Hailey Whitley

Hailey Whitley

Inner You Counseling

Alpharetta, GA

Hailey Whitley holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. Following graduation, she spent eight years working at Building Intimate Marriages, a group practice specializing in Christian sex therapy, before moving across town to open her own practice. She recently completed supervisor training to prepare for hiring an associate counselor and mentoring the next generation of therapists. Hailey also regularly meets with her own counselor because everyone can benefit from a safe space for continued growth. Her passion for supporting others stems from her own personal journey. Born in Atlanta and raised in Duluth, Georgia, Hailey grew up in a comfortable middle-class household. While her childhood was fairly typical, her family was not fully equipped to guide her through her emotions, leading her to suppress her feelings and navigate them alone. She later struggled with an eating disorder throughout much of high school, a struggle that was further exacerbated by sexual abuse from a trusted adult. At age 21, Hailey was led to Christ by her fiancé at the time, who was struggling with addiction. Although that relationship ended, her faith in Jesus continued to grow, ultimately allowing her to find true healing from her past pains and inspiring her decision to enter the field of therapy. Shortly before starting graduate school, Hailey met her now-husband, Reece. They have been happily married for nearly 11 years and live with their three children, a bearded dragon, and a therapy dog in training. Surrounded by a strong support system of friends and family, Hailey enjoys baking with home-milled flour in her free time.

Anxiety Depression Trauma Relationship Issues Life Transitions
Logan Kafer

Logan Kafer

Bedrock & Branch

Decatur, GA

Logan Kafer specializes in helping men overcome sex and porn addiction. As a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT), he uses his training and experience to walk alongside men as they navigate the recovery process.   Logan believes recovery, while difficult, is achievable with the right level of structure and support. Recovery can work as long as there is a willingness to live honestly and without secrets. He works with each person to determine the correct level of structure and support needed for recovery.   If you are experiencing the impact and consequences of sexually acting out behaviors and are ready to begin the recovery process, Logan would be honored to walk alongside you. 

Sexual Addiction Sexual Concerns Men's Issues Marital and Premarital Addiction
Lindsey Pulvino

Lindsey Pulvino

FBC Woodstock Counseling Center

Woodstock, GA

Lindsey is an Associate Professional Counselor (APC) in Georgia who works with adults and teens. She holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Richmont Graduate University and has additional clinical experience and training in trauma-informed care. Through an integration of Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and somatic approaches, Lindsey works with clients navigating anxiety, life transitions, grief and loss, relationship challenges, family dynamics, and spirituality. Her hope is to partner with you, or with you and your child, as you work toward your goals and cultivate a deeper sense of peace, connection, and wholeness.

Spirituality Grief Anxiety Life Transitions Relationship Issues
Taylar Loveless

Taylar Loveless

Path for Peace

Woodstock, GA

Taylar is a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology as well as her master's degree in professional counseling from the University of West Georgia. Her clinical experience includes working with children, teens and young adults in individual, group and family settings. She has focused her work on helping clients with anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, grief, social skills, stress, self-harm and healthy boundary setting. Taylar works to educate clients on their presenting concerns while also helping them to recognize they have the strengths required to overcome them. 

Anxiety Social Anxiety Depression Adjustment Stress
Melanie Ross

Melanie Ross

GROW Counseling

Suwanee, GA

Melanie is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who is passionate about working with individuals on issues of anxiety/depression, grief and loss, codependency, and burnout. She has years of experience working with teens and young adults on issues such as identity development, family and peer relationships, and anxiety related to school. She also enjoys helping premarital couples create a strong foundation for their relationship to flourish, and she is Prepare/Enrich certified.  Melanie understands the unique stressors that individuals working in the helping, ministry, and medical professions face. She enjoys supporting these individuals to develop mindsets and strategies to prevent and manage compassion fatigue.  Melanie seeks to create a warm, supportive environment where her clients feel heard and valued as they process emotions and develop skills to face life’s challenges. She helps her clients pursue their goals through a holistic approach, using a variety of treatment methods that take into consideration a client’s physical, relational, emotional, and spiritual well-being.  Melanie is a graduate of the University of Georgia and received her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Denver Seminary. 

Anxiety Depression Grief Pastor's Family Codependency