Good therapy can move you from the discomfort you’re experiencing toward the feeling of centeredness or healing you’re seeking. I would like to work myself out of a job! I don’t like Band-Aids and shallow solutions; these amount to lazy counseling.    I believe good counseling combines process and content—your current situation needs something new introduced, something change making. Holding space for, processing, and honoring the pain you are experiencing is mission critical, just as stepping outside your life and working on it is essential. Integrating new understanding and language with change-making tools and skills helps bring different outcomes. I am here as a companion to coach and guide with psychological, spiritual, and relational resources as you journey toward your personal healing and goals. Mandi is a psychotherapist, writer, soul-caretaker, yoga teacher, and momma of teens. She is grateful for the constant love and presence of the Lord.

Lynda has been described as warm, nurturing, empathetic, and encouraging. She places a strong value on the client-therapist relationship and believes that a partnership is a vital component in the facilitation of healing, growth, and change. Through creating a safe and nurturing therapeutic relationship, patients who are working with Lynda are able to experience a sense of personal value and worth. While maintaining a strength-based and hope-filled perspective, Lynda offers clients a secure environment to process hurts and examine dysfunctional behaviors and relationship patterns that have led to current feelings of pain and distress. As she offers tools and support to her clients throughout the therapeutic process, they become better equipped and empowered to develop into healthier people. Lynda maintains a Judeo-Christian worldview and holds onto the firm belief that God is the source of strength and healing for all individuals whom she is privileged to serve.

Brittany is passionate about creating a safe place for people to find connection, hope, and holistic wellness. She believes that all people have the ability to grow and thrive. Using primarily non-directive humanistic approaches, Brittany works alongside people to help them discover their inner strengths. Her areas of interest include grief, relationship health, spirituality, anxiety, trauma, transitions, LGBTQ, and depression.

Madeline is committed to fostering healing and personal growth with her clients and in life. She believes each individual has the strength to navigate life’s challenges and integrates a variety of therapeutic modalities to meet clients where they are emotionally and mentally. Her work is grounded in a humanistic approach, which establishes genuine connection, self-actualization, and allows the client to guide their own growth. She primarily draws from person-centered therapy, CBT, TF-CBT, acceptance and commitment therapy, and existential therapy. In working with Madeline, you can expect to explore and reframe unhelpful patterns, deepen your self-understanding, explore life’s questions, and feel empowered to live authentically. Madeline enjoys spending her time outside of work with family and friends. You can find her playing with her French Bulldog, exploring the outdoors, and finding laughter and enjoyment in life. She also loves to rotate hobbies like baking, yard work, and decorating.

Stephen believes that everyone can make a difference in this world, but sometimes life and personal struggles can prevent people from doing it. Stephen wants to work with clients who are struggling to bring change to the world because something in their life is holding them back: trauma, anxiety, depression, spiritual issues, or future concerns. In addition, he works with couples before and during marriage to help make relationships strong. In his work with adolescents, adults, and couples, Stephen specializes in trauma counseling, anxiety disorders, depression, spiritual integration, future and career discernment, premarital concerns, and marriage counseling. He also has experience in adoption-based concerns. Stephen utilizes a variety of interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) with an interpersonal style. In addition to his clinical work, Stephen is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church with local church experience since 2000.

Aleisha provides individual therapy for children and adolescents who struggle with interpersonal skills, self-esteem, anxiety, ADHD, behavior, anger management, bullying, depression, and major life transitions. She has worked with children of many different cultures and a wide range of presenting issues. Aleisha recognizes the importance of teaching children how to cope with big emotions, unwanted thoughts, and feelings while they’re young in order to have a solid foundation for dealing with life’s inevitable challenges of the future. She believes maintaining a strong, therapeutic relationship that is transparent, collaborative, and unconditional is crucial for building trust and will also facilitate the healing process. Therapy is about providing a safe space where people can be themselves and not be judged for it. Aleisha utilizes an integrative approach to counseling including a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and play therapy. This approach allows children to learn problem-solving skills, fosters growth, and empowers them to know they are capable of thriving and accomplishing their goals. Aleisha has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Hispanic Studies from East Carolina University. She has studied abroad in Granada, Spain, and enjoys immersing herself in other cultures.  Upon graduation from ECU, Aleisha went to the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!) to complete her master's degree in Community Counseling. She has since worked with children in the school setting as well as adults in outpatient services. Aleisha has also spent some time conducting crisis assessments and providing counseling services to individuals who struggled with suicidal thoughts, psychosis, and substance use. Aleisha has a three-year-old daughter and loves being a mom. She also enjoys binge watching shows, dance, yoga, listening to music/podcasts, shopping and reading books in her spare time.

Will is drawn toward working with families, couples, and individuals. He views his work with clients through a mixture of therapeutic lenses, including family systems, cognitive behavioral, and existential. He typically works with clients 12 years old and older. Will’s main areas of interest are anxiety, depression, life transitions, men’s issues, family dynamics, and relationship challenges such as couples/marriage counseling and pre-marital counseling. Will’s aim is to help people to better understand their experience and to identify and develop tools and skills that would empower them to navigate their experience in healthier and more fulfilling ways. He seeks to accomplish this by collaboratively working with clients to create a safe and open space where clients can heal and grow. Will earned his Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Richmont Graduate University. Prior to attending Richmont, Will served on staff at the UGA Wesley Foundation helping college students to explore and develop their faith and navigate the challenges of college life. He also attended and graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Will enjoys spending his free time traveling, cycling, rock climbing, and hanging out with friends and loved ones. He loves to learn and be challenged. He is continually looking for ways to grow and develop a healthier understanding of himself, others, and the world.

Rebecca is a licensed psychologist with a specialization in neuropsychology. She provides psychoeducational and neuropsychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and young adults. Most of her clients are children and adolescents who are experiencing learning or attention problems in school. In addition to her expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disorders and ADHD, she also has a strong clinical and research background in the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive problems associated with neurological and other medical disorders. Rebecca provides comprehensive assessments as well, which include measurements of intellectual ability, academic achievement, learning, memory, attention, behavioral and emotional well-being, language skills, executive function and reasoning skills, visual-spatial processing skills, and fine motor and sensory processing skills. She offers brief ADHD and learning disability screenings to determine whether a comprehensive psychoeducational evaluation is warranted. These screenings provide a valuable service to parents who are unsure of whether or not to pursue a comprehensive evaluation for their child. Tailored psychological evaluations are also offered to adults.

The majority of David’s clients are personally referred by satisfied and appreciative former clients who experienced him as approachable and comfortable, yet professional and competent. He sees people individually or as a couple for a wide range of issues. As both an ordained minister and a licensed therapist, David’s goal is to guide people toward wholeness in mind, body, spirit, and relationships. His specialties include relationship therapy (for an individual or a couple) and recovery from grief or trauma using specialized forms of therapy such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), if requested. In addition to his clinical work, he provides administrative leadership as the executive director of The Summit Counseling Center. David also provides clinical supervision for therapists seeking licensure as either an LPC or LMFT and supervises pastoral counselors.