Melanie is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who is passionate about helping teens and adults navigate anxiety, depression, grief and loss, codependency, burnout, and life transitions. She has extensive experience working with adolescents and young adults as they navigate identity development, family and peer relationships, and the pressures often associated with school and emerging adulthood. Melanie has a special interest in supporting individuals who work in ministry and healthcare professions. She understands the unique emotional demands these roles can bring. She partners with clients to develop healthy boundaries, build resilience, and prevent or manage compassion fatigue. Melanie is committed to creating a warm, supportive space where clients feel genuinely heard, valued, and understood. Meaningful change begins with a strong therapeutic collaboration. In each session, she combines practical coping skills to move toward their personal goals using a holistic approach focused on emotional, relational, physical, and spiritual well-being. She integrates evidence-based therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to meet each client's unique needs. Melanie earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and her master of arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Denver Seminary. Outside of the counseling office, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, exploring the outdoors, baking, and getting lost in a good book.

Olga considers her time with clients sacred; it’s essential to her that clients enter a space where they feel safe, understood, and supported. She strongly aligns with a person-centered approach to therapy. Olga collaborates with clients to set and work toward their goals. Her therapeutic perspective relies heavily on family systems, which considers one's family dynamic and how it has shaped them. As a first-generation American, she is especially sensitive to the complexities of a multicultural existence. Including the client’s faith perspective in therapy is welcome as much or as little as desired. Olga earned a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling with a specialization in marriage and family therapy from Richmont Graduate University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology with a certificate in Latin American studies and global studies certification from Georgia Gwinnett College.

You have gone round and round about the same topics but yet feel completely disconnected from your partner. Finding your way back seems out of reach. Reading books, listening to sermons, or even praying hasn’t worked. It feels like you are doing marriage wrong. You think  I am a Christian, so shouldn’t marriage be less challenging? You care about your partner and do everything you can to fight for your relationship. Yet the cycle you get stuck in is exhausting.  By recognizing patterns in your relationship, we can figure out what is happening and help you learn to communicate more effectively. The goal is that you will each be understood, better understand your partner, and learn to notice where you are stuck. Reconnecting in moments of disconnection can help you find a deeper level of love and begin to trust again. God designed marriage to be a beautiful representation of love and commitment, and experiencing that is possible. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, fully certified in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), counseling couples is my passion. Divorce breaks my heart, which fuels my drive to help couples find each other again. Though the name EFCT sounds scary, it is a proven method to help couples get unstuck from the cycle they get caught in. While there are no guarantees, I am passionate about giving you compassionate and excellent care to help you where you need it the most. Marriage is one of the most important relationships next to a relationship with God. Connection is possible!

Palmer is an associate professional counselor who provides counseling services to individuals at Midtown Psychotherapy Associates in Atlanta. He helps people with a wide range of issues, but many of his clients are adolescent and adult men who struggle with anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. As a clinician with an educational background in theology as well as mental health counseling, Palmer integrates faith and spirituality into counseling sessions when desired by clients. His approach is informed by Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and other theories of psychotherapy. Palmer ultimately seeks to cultivate a warm and safe therapeutic relationship with all of his clients. 

Dr. Vanessa Snyder is a Georgia licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed professional counselor, and American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT) approved supervisor. She holds credentials as a certified professional counselor supervisor (4422), certified sex therapist, certified master traumatologist, certified sex addiction therapist, and a Green Cross certified trainer.  Dr. Snyder is the founder of Resilience Source, LLC, a counseling collective in Roswell, Georgia. Her practice provides counseling, consulting, and training in acute and complex trauma, sexual issues, marriage and family crisis, addiction, trauma-informed care, compassion fatigue, and organizational trauma—with a special focus on Dr. Snyder’s Compassionate Recovery model of care. Her research and training include complex traumatic stress reactions, addiction, dissociative disorders, victims of commercial sex trafficking, organizational trauma, secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout, specifically those who serve traumatized populations both nationally and internationally.  In higher education, Dr. Snyder serves as an associate professor in the Ph.D. program for counselor education and supervision at Denver Seminary. She is also an adjunct professor at Richmont Graduate University in Atlanta, Concordia University in Irvine, California, and the Institute for Sexual Wholeness. Dr. Snyder earned her Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from Regent University and her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy (with a specialization in Christian sex therapy) from Richmont Graduate University.  Clinically trained across advanced modalities, her expertise includes eye movement and desensitization and reprocessing (Level 2+), trauma-informed hypnosis (Level 2), sex offender treatment (ITTI), internal family systems (Level 2), certified sex addiction therapy (Mod 1, 2, 3, and 4), trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, ARC framework (attachment, regulation and competency), Gottman couples therapy, and Prepare-Enrich. She is currently training in neurofeedback certification, functional nutrition and sleep recovery, the revised NICHD protocol for forensic interviewing, and sex offender treatment (SOTP). Dr. Snyder resides in Roswell, Georgia, with her husband Mark, four children, five grandchildren, and two pups.

Dr. Juli Giorgianni brings a systems-based approach to working with individuals of all ages, couples, and families. She believes that understanding the impact of our connections with others—and how we impact them—is an important part of understanding and addressing our challenges. Juli incorporates a strengths-based mindset and proven CBT techniques to help people heal, improve relationships, or work toward reaching their potential. She sees her role primarily as helping you identify and cultivate the strengths you already possess, and she loves to be a part of the transformation this brings.  Juli utilizes trauma focused-cognitive behavioral therapy to facilitate the healing process for children and families who have faced abuse or other trauma. Play therapy techniques are incorporated into her work with children as young as three, and supportive strategies for their parents are provided throughout the therapeutic process.  Juli considers it an honor to be invited into a client's life and to help them make the changes they desire. Finding the right therapist is a very personal decision, and Juli would love the opportunity to see if she is the right person to help you in your emotional wellness journey!

Alyssa is a graduate student at Richmont Graduate University, where she is working toward her Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, set to graduate in May 2026. Prior to this, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Studio Art from the University of North Georgia. Alyssa specializes in Person-Centered Therapy, drawing from Cognitive Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Relational-Cultural theories, while also integrating art and play techniques into the therapeutic process. She is deeply committed to the belief that every client’s worldview is unique and valid, shaped by their individual experiences. Alyssa’s goal is to partner with clients in identifying and achieving their personal goals, while addressing any obstacles that arise on their path to healing and self-discovery. With a foundation of empathy and warmth, she creates a safe, non-judgmental space where clients can openly share their thoughts, emotions, and struggles. She aims to foster an environment where every client feels heard, respected, and supported on their journey toward wholeness. Alyssa’s areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, working with adolescents (ages 5+) and adults facing anxiety, stress, depression, suicidal ideation, life transitions, grief, Autism, disordered eating, and OCD. When she isn’t seeing clients, Alyssa is spending time taking photos, going to the gym, watching a good TV show, drinking coffee with friends, or spending time with her amazing husband, Caleb.  Under direct supervision: Michael Kanner, LPC

As a mental health counselor, Johanna strives to help you achieve your goals and the life you desire and deserve. Johanna creates a comfortable, safe environment where you can collaborate with her to identify the root of a difficult issue, whether it be anxiety, a stressed relationship, or a stressful work environment. Johanna teaches coping techniques and strategies critical to treating your concerns, helping you uncover practical, effective methods that appeal to your strengths and preferences so you can move toward healing.     She views therapy as a way for individuals to discover blind spots. Johanna has been where you might be now—feeling like all hope is lost and things could never get better. A therapist changed Johanna's mind when he helped change her life; Johanna has been dedicated to the mental health field ever since.    Johanna knows that counseling can point the way toward self-improvement, enhanced coping skills, and holistic well-being and happiness. Though they wouldn’t have imagined it possible, clients who suffered from severe anxiety disorders have overcome their fears working with Johanna. She’s also helped clients overcome severe depression, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders. Johanna's desire is to work with clients on their journey of self-improvement and life-changing  transformation. 

You may look like you have it all together, while inside you feel anxious, overwhelmed, stuck, or exhausted from overthinking. Relationships feel harder than they should, work or school may feel increasingly stressful, and past experiences may continue to affect you, even if you have never thought of them as trauma. Michele works with teens (ages 13+), adults, and couples who want to better understand what is happening, feel more in control, and make meaningful change. She has 21 years of counseling experience and a Ph.D. in counseling, and uses evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and brainspotting. Michele’s style is warm, practical, and collaborative. Therapy is not about simply thinking positively. It’s about understanding patterns, developing useful tools, and creating changes that actually fit your life. She helps clients with anxiety, depression, trauma, overthinking, perfectionism, stress, relationship concerns, difficult life transitions, self-confidence, chronic illness/pain, and postpartum concerns. Michele currently offers in-person counseling in Cumming and telehealth throughout Georgia. She is accepting new clients and offers a complimentary 15-minute consultation to help you determine whether you’re a good fit.

You work hard to hold everything together for everyone else, yet internally feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, or unsure of who you are outside of your roles and responsibilities. I work with women in their 20s–40s navigating anxiety, postpartum and perinatal challenges, relationship and betrayal trauma, family-of-origin wounds, life transitions, faith struggles, people-pleasing, low self-esteem, and identity loss. Many of my clients are high functioning and insightful but emotionally exhausted from constantly caring for others while neglecting their own needs. I use a trauma-informed, interpersonal, psychodynamic approach and am trained in EMDR. Together we build coping skills, self-trust, boundaries, and reconnect with identity beyond roles.  My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in helping you feel emotionally safe, understood, and empowered to create a life that feels more authentic and fulfilling.