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Megan Kuder

Megan Kuder

Be Well Counseling Services

Marietta, GA

Megan Kuder is a licensed professional counselor and received her master's degree from Richmont University in Atlanta, GA, in 2013. After helping found the Atlanta chapter of a church-based soul care counseling ministry in 2014, she went on to start her own private practice in 2018 shortly before having her first child. Her practice is now located in North Atlanta near the Battery/Truist Park. She considers it a great privilege to help clients navigate through issues related to anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions so they can gain a greater sense of freedom, hope, and courage to thrive in their lives.  Megan specializes in working with adult women, as well as dating, engaged, and married couples. She provides a warm, directive environment, offering a safe, empathetic space for connection and healing. Her goal is for clients to leave each session with a sense of empowerment and peace with who they are and tools to help them with where they’re headed. Her counseling practice, Be Well, reflects Megan’s belief that true wellness comes from a holistic understanding of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and each of these areas is addressed in therapy.  Megan is a certified restoration therapist, EMDR trained (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and a PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator. She is also a certified professional counseling supervisor and enjoys helping train other therapists in their work as counselors. She has spoken at women’s conferences, churches, schools, and faith-based organizations around Atlanta on various topics related to mental health and Christian spirituality, healthy relationships, and self-care for the people helper. 

Anxiety Codependency Marital and Premarital Trauma Depression
Melissa Hall

Melissa Hall

Saged Feather Counseling & Wellness, LLC

Canton, GA

Melissa is a mental health therapist specializing in anxiety, depression, life transitions, and trauma. Before becoming a therapist, Melissa spent nearly 20 years as a holistic practitioner in the field of complementary and alternative medicine. She brings that experience into her therapy practice. She integrates the fundamental principles of traditional psychotherapy with holistic approaches to promote healing on all levels: emotional, physical, mental and spiritual. Melissa is a client-centered therapist who sees every single client as unique and she does not believe in a one-approach-fits-all model. Recognizing the link between physical disease and emotional dis-ease means that therapy is more than an opportunity to talk about your problems; it can restore your overall health and increase your life span. ​ Melissa's practice is "inclusive". She upholds and adheres to the code of ethics that govern her field. She promotes the values of social justice and is dedicated to working inclusively with people whose backgrounds, lifestyles, life stages, belief systems, identities and cultures might be different from her own. She provides services to people of all races, ethnicities, immigration statuses, religions, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, incomes, relationship statuses, sizes, and philosophies. ​ Melissa is an empath and people person! She is passionate about humans and their unique expression in this world.  Your peace and well-being is her priority. Currently, Melissa is seeing clients virtually only.

Anxiety Depression LGBTQ+ Trauma Grief
Laura Lee Baker MA, LPC, NCC, CPCS

Laura Lee Baker MA, LPC, NCC, CPCS

Exhale Counseling

Acworth, GA

Laura Baker is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a national certified counselor (NCC). She works extensively with all types of trauma-related disorders, dissociative disorders, self-harm, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and sports performance anxiety. Laura is passionate about empowering females of all ages to understand and embrace their unique selves and not to let their past define them. Her goal is to create a trusting counseling environment where open, honest communication is explored, so it can be transferred to personal relationships outside of the counseling setting. Laura enjoys equipping adults, adolescents, and families with tools as they navigate through unexpected life transitions such as divorce or sudden loss. Laura believes it is imperative that we aim to provide holistic emotional health for individuals and families so that the generations to come have the best chance for success. This holistic approach will have an eternal impact on families and the world in which we live.

Trauma Eating Disorders Self Harm Depression Women's Issues
Lynda Sarkisian

Lynda Sarkisian

Therapy with Lynda, LLC

Atlanta, GA

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.

Marital and Premarital Anxiety Depression Adjustment Codependency
Kim Lareau

Kim Lareau

Steady Hope

Decatur, GA

Kim considers it a privilege to walk beside her clients as they rediscover wholeness and identity. She values every unique relationship, collaborating with her clients as she hears their concerns and aiding them in achieving their goals. It is her aim to provide a safe space for her clients to understand their true identities and thrive in their current situations. She works on establishing a strong foundation so that their relationship is rooted in trust and her counsel can be effective. Since entering the counseling profession in 2011, she has cultivated both a passion for and commitment to professional excellence in the therapy room. Kim works with clients from many backgrounds and has specific training on integrating faith into her counseling process. She specializes in clinical issues related to trauma, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), sexual abuse, self-esteem, codependency, relationship difficulties, infertility, grief and loss, stress management, faith-based issues, boundaries, anxiety, college students, and athletes. Pairing her passions for fitness and justice, Kim also partners with Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Atlanta and anti-human trafficking organizations to provide specialized training, counseling, and support.

Trauma Sexual Abuse Anxiety Grief College and Student Affairs
Deborah Russo

Deborah Russo

Dr. Deborah Russo at Coupleslaunch.com

Sandy Springs, GA

Dr. Russo is invested in helping individuals and couples navigate the challenges and milestones that surface in serious dating, pre-engagement, engagement, newly married and remarriage couple relationships. She is certified facilitator for several evidence-based relationship-building inventory programs that help to reduce vulnerability of failed relationships by 31%. Research shows us that most people wait until they are six years into a relationship before they reach for the help, direction, and support that they need. Dr. Russo helps intentional couples build resilient bonds by understanding each other and practicing skills and tools early so they can communicate effectively, manage conflict, deal with daily challenges, and navigate uncertain and painful seasons of their relationships together. She also co-lead pre-marriage workshops and facilitates fun-filled experiential enrichment team-building workshops for couples in all stages of their relationships.

Marital and Premarital Eating Disorders Addiction Codependency Adjustment
Sunamita Tuple

Sunamita Tuple

Capstone Center for Counseling, DBT and Relational Trauma

2 locations

Sunamita is a licensed professional counselor and received a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Emory University, a Master of Science and a Specialist in Education in professional counseling from Georgia State University, and a Master of Science in Christian counseling, with a specialization in sex therapy from Richmont University. She is also a PREPARE/ENRICH premarital counselor.  Sunamita has experience working in hospital, outpatient, and private practice settings providing individual, group, couples, and family counseling to a variety of populations. Her areas of expertise include depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, addiction, dual diagnosis, co-dependence, relapse prevention and family issues in recovery, couples counseling, women’s issues, self-esteem, professional development, grief and loss, identity development, and life transitions. Her area of specialty includes sex therapy with a focus on issues of sexual addiction, pornography, low sexual desire, sexual arousal, orgasmic disorders, vaginismus and other sexual pain disorders, erectile dysfunction, sexual issues due to medications or medical conditions, chronic illness or aging, and issues of sexual identity.

Sex Therapy Addiction Depression Marital and Premarital Affair Recovery
Katie Newman

Katie Newman

Higher Grounds Counseling

Cumming, GA

Katie is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia and bachelor's degree in psychology from Hendrix College. Katie specializes in the management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms, communication issues, relationship struggles, life transitions and adjustments, boundary setting, grief and loss, stress management, and trauma recovery as well as anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders. She has years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families in both individual, group, and social work settings like schools, churches, residential, and in-home counseling. Katie works with each of her clients to achieve a sense of peace and self-awareness by gaining insight into their past and current family/relationship dynamics. She utilizes a variety of treatment styles including mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (M-CBT), family systems, strengths-based perspective, motivational interviewing, and client-centered therapy. She also utilizes progressive counting (PC), mindfulness, and dialectical behavioral techniques (DBT) to assist clients as they explore spiritual and emotional issues in a safe environment.

ADHD Anxiety Depression Grief Trauma
Denise Rountree

Denise Rountree

Exhale Counseling

Acworth, GA

Denise is a licensed professional counselor and a national certified counselor. She also pursues empirical-based training and research in her counseling approach. Denise has a special interest in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and learning differences. She understands how ADHD and learning differences not only impact the individual who is facing challenges but also the family unit as a whole. Using her strengths-based philosophy, Denise provides life coaching, study skills, and organizational training to promote self-efficacy. Additionally, she works with those facing anxiety, depression, college guidance, career development, adoption, infertility, marital discord, single parenting adjustment, blended families, co-dependency, emotional abuse, grief, and mood disorders. Her desire is to instill a legacy that encourages and empowers clients to face and overcome the challenges of life. Denise is trained in the DISC personality styles and assessment for strengths coaching as well as PREPARE/ENRICH (the leading relationship skill-building program for premarital and married couples)and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). ​

ADHD Anxiety Marital and Premarital Codependency Women's Issues
Robin Bradley

Robin Bradley

Atlanta Counseling Center

Atlanta, GA

Seeking therapy isn't easy, but Robin does her best to make the process as straight forward as possible. She enjoys working with individuals who are dealing with life transitions, relationship difficulties, and healing from past hurts, and she helps couples address issues involving communication, conflict resolution, and sexual intimacy. She is familiar with issues surrounding adoption and parenting and finds great joy working with individuals and families in this capacity. Robin does all she can to support, encourage, and challenge her clients in the direction they want to go. She does her best to understand the client’s unique relational, emotional, and spiritual context. She is happy to answer questions about this process or about therapy in general.

Relationship Issues Sex Therapy Adjustment Adoption Anxiety