Katie is a licensed professional counselor in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her master’s in counseling psychology from Northwestern University in 2005. After a brief stint as a family therapist at an inner-city ministry in Chicago, she and her husband relocated to Atlanta. Katie currently has a private practice in Buckhead, where she sees a variety of clients including individuals struggling with depression and anxiety, as well as those who simply feel a lack of purpose and direction in their lives. She specializes in perinatal mood disorders and enjoys helping new moms and couples in their transition to parenthood. She is also passionate about her work with marriages in crisis. She and her husband have been married for 15 years and have two children.

Sandy believes life is difficult and the decision to come to counseling is a courageous one. Her passion is to walk alongside and help clients who are dealing with challenges or isolating from others because of a distressing experience. Over the years, she has treated individuals with painful, intrusive thinking; rumination; nightmares; and flashbacks. Sandy believes her integrated counseling approach can heal these painful memories, leading to a life of renewed hope. Trained and certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) under the EMDR Institute, she has seen people’s “negative, stuck thinking” healed with EMDR and watched them overcome discouragement and fears and improve their relationships. Sandy works with adult men and women who faced childhood abuse or neglect and are now motivated to experience change. Sandy is also passionate about working with individuals, couples, and families affected by drug or alcohol dependence. 

Jillian is an associate licensed professional under the training and supervision of Jenny Reynolds. Her education includes a bachelor’s degree from Georgia College & State University and a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Mercer University. She works primarily with teenagers, college students, and adults with a variety of mental health concerns, including depression, anxiety, trauma, childhood wounds, stage of life issues, relationship and communication issues, self-worth, grief/loss, and spirituality from a Christian perspective. Jillian grew up in Gwinnett County and loves being at the beach or anywhere warm. When she’s not in the office, you can find her spending quality time with her husband, family, and friends.

Suzannah is a licensed professional counselor at LiveWell Cherokee. She has been married for over 30 years and has eight grown children, four biological and four adopted. Suzannah enjoys working with individuals 16 and up as well as couples. She desires to help those going through difficult seasons in life. Every person is unique and valuable, and she believes that change is always possible. Whether it’s working through anxiety, depression, or a relationship problem, she joins with each person to help them reach their personal goals and to find peace and joy in their journey.

Marcel helps adults heal, learn, and grow from the challenges of life such as broken relationships, loss, burnout, workaholism, transitions, anger, disappointment, and lack of fulfillment. Her business experience and psychotherapy training position her to help clients address both personal and professional issues. She brings a combination of warmth, pragmatism, humor, and truth-telling to help her clients improve their well-being and performance.   Being brought up in the church, Marcel felt the principles of Christianity to be true but wasn't always certain on how to apply them in everyday life. After two decades of research and personal development, Marcel helps clients align their behaviors with their faith practice. She does this by merging faith-based principles with neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness to help clients break out of limiting behaviors to make lasting change. Marcel is trained on several sophisticated personality instruments such as the Enneagram, the Hogan, MBTI, DiSC, and others.

Dustin Ellis earned a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, Tennessee. In his work with couples and adults, Dustin uses Emotionally Focused Therapy and Internal Family Systems to reveal and address patterns of communication and behaviors that perpetuate relational conflicts. Using this approach, Dustin’s work includes: Couples Counseling: Understanding negative communication patterns, conflict resolution, codependency, affair recovery, premarital counseling, parenting skills/strategies, and parenting a child on the autism spectrum or with ADHD Men: Work-life balance, relationship skills, stress management, career/leadership development, motivation, perfectionism, boundaries, assertiveness, pornography, retirement, trauma, anger issues, and grief Adult ADHD and Autism: Navigating workplace and personal relationships, stage-of-life changes, and anxiety Life Transitions and Athletic Performance: Develop coping skills in response to emerging needs and stress management, specifically performance pressure and external expectations

Liz Fava has a passion for seeing clients establish and restore healthy relationships—and for helping them live their lives to the fullest. Many habits, issues, and wounds from the past—along with a lack of skills or training—can keep individuals and couples from having the strong relationships they’ve always wanted. But things don’t have to stay that way; change can happen! Liz collaborates with clients to get to the bottom of their unique challenges. She provides them with tools for improving their relationships, not just with intimate partners, but also with friends, family, and colleagues. Liz views her work with clients as collaborative. She believes clients bring a lot to the table, and she walks with them through their growth process. Her clients appreciate that she provides support and makes them feel safe in therapy. They also appreciate that Liz doesn’t shy away from offering ideas or direct feedback—or challenging a thought or belief that might be getting in the way of progress. Liz uses a variety of approaches. She is holistic, looking at all aspects of life: mind, body, and spirit. For couples, she is trained in the Gottman Method, an approach that is research-driven and science-based. She uses Prepare/Enrich for working with premarital couples. Liz uses Brainspotting to help clients trying to heal from past traumas.

Hannah Clark is a counselor offering therapeutic help to people from all walks of life. Her philosophy is that counseling is for everyone. Just like we go to the doctor for check-ups and take our cars to get the oil changed, mental health works the same way. She enjoys helping individuals of all ages notice when their “check engine” lights are coming on. Then, they can take a look under the hood before any costly maintenance needs to be done. Hannah has experience counseling individuals with issues such as trauma, PTSD, grief, depression, anxiety, career transitions, other life transitions, and shame.  With her Masters of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Richmont Graduate University, she feels confident integrating faith and spirituality into counseling. She is also EMDR trained and would be honored to collaborate with you on trauma-informed therapy around the parts of life that are the most difficult to talk about. Hannah finds it beneficial to integrate theories having to do with early childhood experiences and caregiver attachment bonds, along with emotion-focused theories. Hannah sees clients in-person at Restoration's Woodstock location. She also sees clients virtually.

Juan is a licensed professional counselor who works with couples and individuals. He specializes in a variety of areas, including depression, anxiety, trauma, faith issues, life transitions, and sexual brokenness. He also does premarital and couples counseling. Juan is a bilingual therapist, fluent in English and Spanish.  He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and history, a master’s degree in mental health counseling, and a Master of Divinity degree. Before working as a professional counselor, Juan served as a pastor for six years.    Juan seeks to counsel from a biblical perspective and utilizes a gospel-centered approach. In addition, he draws from a variety of therapeutic approaches according to the client’s specific needs. He mainly uses interventions and insights from Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and the Gottman Method.    Juan is committed to being attuned to his clients and walking alongside them through their challenges and suffering. His goal is to create a safe environment where they can be vulnerable and he can extend kindness, grace, and the hope of Jesus to them.    Juan loves spending time with his wife and baby boy. He enjoys reading, traveling, drinking coffee, and playing and watching soccer.

Jessica is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with a private practice in Canton, Georgia. She sees adult women and men for a variety of issues such as anxiety, depression, spiritual issues, addiction, trauma, and domestic violence. Jessica earned her undergraduate degree from Kennesaw State University and her master’s degree from Richmont Graduate University, a Christian counseling program in Atlanta. In her graduate studies, she specialized in spirituality and offers counseling from a Christian perspective. In addition to her work as a therapist, Jessica has been actively involved in the mental well-being of Cherokee Country for over a decade. She began her career helping families through the Department of Family and Children Services before she opened her private practice nine years ago. She has participated on the Cherokee County Domestic Violence Task Force and the Drug Free Cherokee Organization. Jessica helps women from the Cherokee Family Violence Center heal from trauma and serves as a board member with Cherokee FOCUS. On a personal level, she is passionate about women’s issues and serves as coordinator of her local MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group.