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Barbara Carlin

Barbara Carlin

Horizon Counseling & Consulting, LLC

Marietta, GA

Barbara works with adults on a number of issues such as anxiety, depression, grief/loss, trauma, divorce recovery, chronic illness, work situations, relational challenges, and family struggles. Everyone experiences stress in life, and professional, competent counseling can help. She is relational and collaborative and finds great satisfaction in helping clients experience effective change for personal and spiritual growth. Barbara specializes in spiritual integration and is a nationally board certified counselor and a licensed professional counselor (LPC) of Georgia. She has been in private practice supporting the metro-Atlanta community for 15 years. Barbara has been married for 40 years and has two adult children and two grandchildren. She enjoys reading, writing, painting, travel, and the great outdoors. She is passionate about serving and loving the body of Christ.

Anxiety Codependency Depression Grief Trauma
Lindsey Dasher

Lindsey Dasher

Refuel Counseling

Cumming, GA

Lindsey has a passion for helping people build happy, healthy lives and relationships. She believes in taking a holistic approach to counseling, incorporating spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being. She works with couples experiencing marriage difficulties, including navigating finances, parenting, communication, and betrayal. She also has a passion for helping women who are experiencing postpartum depression and anxiety. Having experienced it herself, she understands the darkness that can come in a time that is supposed to be so joyful. She has experience working with adults facing many difficulties, including anxiety, depression, grief, loss of identity, and divorce. Lindsey can provide a faith-based approach to those who seek it.     Lindsey has completed Level 2 of Gottman Method Couples Therapy and continues to learn best practices in the field of couples counseling. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Georgia and a master's in clinical mental health counseling from the University of North Georgia. She uses a cognitive behavioral approach and incorporates mindfulness and DBT skills in therapy. She is a licensed associate professional counselor and works under the supervision of Rachel Menzoian at Refuel Counseling in Cumming, GA.     In her free time, Lindsey enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, playing pickleball with her neighbors, and visiting family. She loves baking and watching her favorite shows on repeat. 

Marital and Premarital Postpartum Depression/Anxiety Anxiety Women's Issues Stress
Kelli Center

Kelli Center

Centered Living Counseling & Coaching Services, LLC

Atlanta, GA

Kelli has more than 19 years of experience in the behavioral health field working with people from various backgrounds. During 13 of those years, she has worked as a counselor. Kelli enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families. Kelli believes that the client is ultimately the agent of change, and she is simply the guide on their journey to wholeness. Together you will identify your goals, and, through your work together, Kelli will help you reach them. She works with a wide range of concerns, including marital and family conflict, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, trauma, faith and spirituality issues, and more.

Relationship Issues Marriage Trauma Depression Anxiety

Simone Cox

Release Counseling & Consulting

Atlanta, GA

Simone Cox is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia. She is a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor (CPCS), Approved American Association for Marriage and Therapy Supervisor, and Board Certified Telemental Health provider. She is passionate about serving others. Simone seeks to journey with you as you discover increased self-awareness, personal growth and self-acceptance. Simone views counseling as an investment that can yield long-term rewards to influence healing, intimacy and wholeness.

Palmer McCluskey

Palmer McCluskey

Midtown Psychotherapy Associates

Atlanta, GA

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. 

Depression Anxiety Substance Abuse Stress Men's Issues
Denise McKinney

Denise McKinney

Fresh Start for the Mind

Suwanee, GA

Dr. McKinney is a licensed psychologist working in the Atlanta area. She believes that psychological assessment can be the cornerstone of the therapeutic process. She conducts assessments on children, adolescents, and adults to help determine functioning and to drive treatment planning. Dr. McKinney is experienced in assessing disorders of attention-deficit/hyperactivity, behavioral and emotional functioning, cognitive or academic abilities (including learning disabilities), autism-spectrum, trauma impacts, and personality. Her experience in these areas offers her clients a comprehensive evaluation with extensive recommendations for how to manage any diagnoses discovered throughout the evaluation process.

Ellen Marmon

Ellen Marmon

Relate Counseling

Atlanta, GA

Relationships can be a great source of joy and connection. They can also be really tough. When we get stuck, feelings of hurt, frustration, and loneliness can overwhelm us so much that it seems impossible to get back the sense of closeness and safety we long for. Ellen specializes in helping people work through these tough relationship issues and stresses related to change. As a certified emotionally focused therapist, she is committed to listening to her clients’ concerns and helping them heal and rebuild; cope with the stress and depression that often accompany relationship problems; and become more aware of how they may undermine what they want for their life and those they share it with. Ellen is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and founder of Relate Counseling. With over 13 years of counseling experience, she is an EFT Supervisor Candidate ; a Certified PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator; and has additional training in the Enneagram, the Gottman Method, human attachment, human sexuality, and trauma recovery. Ellen favors emotionally focused therapy, the Gottman Method, and the Enneagram, which are all research-based and/or spiritual approaches that have been proven to help couples and individuals.

Infidelity Marital and Premarital Grief Divorce Recovery Adjustment
Dara Stockton

Dara Stockton

Stockton & Stockton Counseling, LLC located within New Hope Counseling Center and Foundation Counseling

Woodstock, GA

Dara delights in assisting couples and individuals in challenging situations. She enjoys working with couples as they prepare for marriage as well as couples confronting crises who require more than mere skill building for an enduring solution. Problems such as recovering from an affair or betrayal or overcoming the effects of pornography and compulsive sexual behaviors can destroy a marriage without guided intervention, but Dara is available to join a couple in the fight to preserve their marriage and establish a more intimate and satisfying partnership. To facilitate her goals with couples, she has received advanced training in emotionally focused therapy (EFT), earned a specialization in Christian sex therapy, and received training to become a certified sex addiction therapist (CSAT). Her plans are to complete the final module of CSAT training in August 2019. In individual therapy, Dara assists those who have experienced loss, abuse, trauma, or relational problems. She has received training in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and internal family systems (IFS). She particularly enjoys working with those suffering from betrayal trauma.

Infidelity Marital and Premarital Trauma Sex Therapy Adjustment
Mary Ellis

Mary Ellis

Beyond Today Counseling Center

Cumming, GA

After graduating from Liberty University with a Master of Arts in Counseling, Mary went into community mental health for two years, working with the chronically and severely mentally ill. Since then, she has been in private practice. She really enjoys working with couples and also counsels individuals dealing with depression, anxiety, OCD, grief, life transitions, family of origin pain, and parenting issues, among other things. She mainly counsels adults but will also work with older adolescents. She was an Air Force wife for many years, and she enjoys working with military couples and individuals. She has been married for over 45 years and has raised four children. There are not many issues in marriage and parenting she has not encountered either personally or professionally. Her undergraduate degree is in Education and she taught middle school for a couple of years before returning to school to study counseling. Before that, she did considerable volunteer counseling at a pro-life counseling center. She has been a follower of Jesus for most of her life and tries to live and counsel with His grace and love. She considers it a sacred privilege to be a part of each client’s journey to healing.

Anxiety Bipolar Disorder Depression Grief Adjustment
Stephen Walters

Stephen Walters

The Summit Counseling Center

Johns Creek, GA

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.

Trauma Anxiety College and Student Affairs Adoption Anger Management