Mary is a licensed professional counselor who has been working with teenagers, adults, and couples for more than 10 years. She loves her work because it allows her the opportunity to learn from all different types of people as they work to grow through their struggles and experiences. Outside the office, Mary enjoys time at home with her husband of more than 18 years, their two kids, and their assortment of furry family members who ruin their furniture.

Brittny has a heart for helping individuals discover more of their true selves, assisting couples in learning how to get to “know” each other as God intended by design, and building cohesion in families. Brittny's approach to counseling is holistic, person-centered, solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral, systemic, and structural (i.e., cycles, systems, and boundaries). She enjoys teaching clients about their symptoms, thought processes, emotional responses, and behavioral and social patterns. She also values learning from them about what they need most as indicated through the therapeutic relationship. The goal is to help clients discover new ways to express their needs, practice gratitude and self-care, and set healthy boundaries to cultivate and maintain wellness. When working with couples, for example, Brittny may utilize PREPARE/ENRICH, Gottman Method, and/or Woodfellow’s Love Cycles/Fear Cycles model. She joins with them as they learn how to highlight their strengths, communicate effectively, rebuild trust and intimacy, and share their deepest desires and dreams. And because she believes that mental health derives from one’s soul health, she integrates spirituality into the healing process, as guided by the client. Brittny navigates her life with a Christian compass, but she welcomes her clients’ beliefs and positions on spirituality and in no way tries to impose her beliefs on them. Brittny's style of therapy involves homework (i.e., journaling, reading, completing worksheets, practicing coping skills, and utilizing support) to keep clients engaged in the healing process, so be prepared to get to work! Homework teaches clients how to practice new skills and cope independently between sessions to become advocates for their own healing. With a combination of collaborating with Brittny, God’s wisdom and guidance, and your commitment to the process, nothing less than transformative possibilities await you. Are you ready to do this good work?

James Eubanks is a licensed marriage and family therapist and professional counselor specializing in couples therapy. James has served as the director of the FBC Woodstock Counseling Ministry since 1999.

The vision of loving one person for a lifetime seems easy when you are in the early stages of love. Most couples along the way, however, hit one or many bumps that may leave them questioning their decision to marry and doubting whether a lifetime commitment is truly possible. Dana is a therapist who believes in marriage. She works with her clients to establish a strong connection. It can be confusing to be successful in your career and education but still feel like you are not measuring up in your marriage. Many young couples today want better relationships than their parents had, but they need role models and skills in order to build lasting marriages. You are not alone! When it comes to adding to the family, couples may unexpectedly face trauma, feelings of depression, or anxiety around the time of a child's birth. Dana is available to walk with you through this, too. Whatever stage you are at in your relationship, Dana helps couples restore peace. Many minority and biracial couples as well as Christian clients find themselves at home with her, though all are welcome. Feel free to call Dana to talk through any questions you may have. She is seeing clients virtually. 

Debbie completed her undergraduate work at the University of Florida in 1992, and then moved to Chicago to earn a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Wheaton College, graduating in 1994. She is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia in counselor education and supervision. Debbie has experience in residential, college, and private practice settings. She has been licensed as an LPC in the state of Georgia since 1998, and is also a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CPCS) and a Trauma-Focused Equine-Assisted Psychotherapist (TF-EAP). She currently provides office counseling in Roswell and equine-assisted psychotherapy in Milton. Debbie works with clients with a wide range of emotional, relational, and spiritual issues. She has a special interest in teens, trauma recovery, codependency recovery, Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACoA) issues, boundaries, shame, anxiety, depression, and loss.

Abby is a Licensed Professional Counselor originally from South Africa, now serving clients in the United States. Abby has a Masters of Science degree in Mental Health Psychology from the University of Liverpool, coupled with a BPSYCH Equivalent Honors degree obtained in South Africa.  Abby’s approach is rooted in the principles of person-centered care, blending traditional talk therapy with evidence-based neuro-experiential modalities. She is passionate about guiding individuals towards recognizing and addressing maladaptive relational patterns, while empowering them to rewire their brains to heal deeply entrenched traumas and attachment issues. Abby enjoys working with all populations and ages and has recently discovered great fulfillment in supporting Deeply Feeling Kids (DFK), recognizing them as a distinct and newly acknowledged segment within childhood psychology. With their families, she advocates for a specialized approach to caregiving and parenting, tailored to the unique needs of these empathetic young people. Within her work, she also assists deeply feeling teens and adults, many of whom have never been fully recognized or supported, find healing and growth through self-discovery. Another great interest for Abby is woman in their late 30’s and 40’s navigating motherhood, purpose, hormonal transitions and life transitions that happens during these years. When Abby is not working, you can usually find her enjoying a grand coffee, with a book that smells of new pages, lifting children to and from school and sporting events, all the while with an unequivocal desire to discover life’s convergence of chaos and beauty in being a mom, a wife, and a person of this earthly world.  “GROWTH IS CHANGE. When everything is easy, we have no reason to change. The most painful moments in life expand us. And when the pain leaves, space remains. Space we can fill with life itself!”    

Jim understands the thoughts and feelings that occur when stress, depression, anxiety, and relationship challenges are inhibiting your decision-making and ability to take charge of your day. He will provide you with effective strategies from a Christian perspective to manage your concerns. He can assist you with understanding your relationship conflicts and provide techniques for you to create better communication and connection with those important to you. Jim can help you by listening to your story and evaluating which strategies and techniques may most benefit you. He uses recent, research-based methods to quickly move you on your path to meaning, purpose, and success at home, work, and play. Jim is an experienced licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Georgia and a nationally board-certified counselor with the National Board of Certified Counselors. He founded and currently directs Advent Counseling and Training Services, Inc., established in the metro Atlanta, Georgia area. At the beginning of his career, Jim worked as patient care coordinator, program therapist, and partial hospital director in area hospitals treating adolescents and their families.

Erin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC); a National Certified Counselor (NCC); and a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CPCS). She earned a master’s degree in community counseling from the University of North Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in early childhood and special education from the University of North Georgia.  Erin has dedicated her career to helping children and adolescents overcome hardships, regardless of the severity of the issue. While working in the school system, she helped elementary-aged children meet their academic goals. Later she helped adolescents and their families achieve stability while working as the Assistant Director of Cottage A/Youth Services for both the inpatient and partial programs at Ridgeview Institute. Erin enjoys working with individuals, groups, and families. She has experience working with clients in crisis and with mood disorders including anxiety, depression, and anger. She also enjoys working with families in conflict, clients with behavioral difficulties, and resistant clients.  She uses Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques to help children and adolescents learn healthy coping skills. Erin has extensive training in DBT, which can be greatly beneficial for adolescents. The technique can help with issues, including but not limited to suicidal thoughts, self-harming behaviors, anger or explosive emotional outbursts, isolation, anxiety, panic attacks, and disordered eating. DBT can also help adolescents more effectively communicate with their parents, handle difficult situations, and understand and navigate their emotions.  ​ ​Erin believes that behaviors are meaningful rather than random. Often when children act out, they are trying to get a need met or communicate with someone. Understanding the cause of behavior can help bring positive and lasting change. Erin believes that the use of art therapy allows children and adolescents to communicate in a natural manner so that the cause of behavior can be understood. She also feels that using creative expressive therapies can help bring positive change into children’s lives. 

Tracy has been a counselor in the Woodstock area for 16 years and greatly enjoys her work. In her practice, she sees adults, teenagers, and couples. Tracy helps clients who have varying issues and specializes in relationship issues but will work with most things outside of addiction and eating disorders.

My passion is helping couples and individuals understand their current story of shutdown or strife so healing can begin.  I started where you are. I was smart and competent in many ways, but I didn’t understand how my early relationships and experiences affected the choices I was making. I struggled the first few years of marriage and felt defeated. Almost three decades later, I find joy helping couples and individuals find a new way.  In sessions with couples, I use Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to track the steps in the relationship's negative cycle, a cycle of disconnect that you’ve unconsciously fallen into over time. We step away from blame and discover that the vulnerable feelings of rejection and abandonment are fueling the cyclical fights. We see that under surface tensions are attachment cries: Are you there? Do I matter?  In individual sessions, I use Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to help you explore how your default responses might be getting in the way of the love and the life you want. These default responses are related to your attachment style. Instead of feeling defeated by your repeated "failings" or “mistakes,” you’ll see that you make sense in the context of your life’s experience.  Read more about my approach and schedule a free consultation with me here: https://newstorycounselingatl.com/services