Britt is a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor, a Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and a pastor. He has worked as an addiction and mental health counselor for the past nine years. He utilizes faith-based Positive Psychology coupled with Motivational Interviewing to promote health and change in clients. He is a passionate advocate for those with whom he works. As a person in recovery, he realizes many of the needs and challenges of people fighting for sobriety. He believes his empathetic and non-judgmental style of counseling is helpful for learning how to experience life happy and free. He earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Liberty University School of Divinity and Graduate School. While at Liberty, he served as a Theology and Biblical Studies instructor. Along with specializing in treating those with substance-use disorders, he serves as a Pastoral Counselor.

Karla has been working in mental health for more than 30 years. In the beginning years, she worked in hospital settings and had a part-time private practice. She launched a full-time practice in 2003 and loves working with all ages. Through conversation, experience, clinical training, and godly wisdom, she strives to understand each client and what specific technique is needed to reach their goals. Though she’s had the privilege to help with many pressing issues, many clients have come to therapy for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, OCD, and relational concerns. Karla has specific training in trauma and crisis intervention as well as expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Animal Assisted Therapy, and Ecotherapy. Her passion for animals and being in nature has allowed her to recognize the therapeutic benefits  of treating the whole person—emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically, and socially. Karla will meet with her clients at the office—or outdoors if this proves to be helpful for their healing and growth.  Most recently, Karla created Navigating Thru Nature, an outdoor opportunity where an individual, family, couple, or friend group can experience a deeper level of therapy if desired. This might include going on a day hike, overnight, or a several-day backpacking trip. Being in nature has a way of promoting healing and transformation.  Karla loves the Lord and seeks to help those who have like faith to grow closer in their relationship with him. When not seeing clients, she is either helping with a critical incident, backpacking a trail, traveling, going to church, or enjoying time with her friends or grown children and their families.

Andrea earned a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Truett McConnell University and a bachelor’s degree in physical activity and health from Auburn University. Andrea’s passion is to help reveal barriers that keep people from becoming who they were created to be. With a goal of wholeness rather than perfection, she offers insights and tools to overcome those barriers. Andrea believes that incorporating faith into the work in and outside of counseling is an important aspect of lasting change. Andrea has experience helping clients address areas such as anxiety, grief, bereavement, life transitions, spiritual formation, identity and worth, and relational issues. In her free time, Andrea refuels by hiking and camping with her husband, traveling, investing in friends, spending time outdoors, and delighting in good food and coffee.  

Kim had her first panic attack when she was in college, and she claims it’s the best thing that ever happened to her, even though she didn’t know it at the time. Fifteen years ago, Kim felt like her life was falling apart, but healing soon came. Through therapy, she had space to voice doubts and ask herself hard questions. She learned how to fight anxiety and see how her wiring affected the way she experienced the world. Kim grew in her identity as a deeply loved person—a person loved by a God who wants an intimate, rich relationship with her. Kim’s experiences and God's calling led her to work as a licensed professional counselor, specializing in anxiety and depression. For 10 years, she’s practiced from a depth-oriented approach in order to bring greater healing and understanding to her clients’ life stories. Her goal is to provide a warm, relational perspective that brings health to the way her clients live in community with others. Kim uses practical, tested tools to help her clients regain the life that has been stripped away by anxiety, depression, and burnout. She considers it an honor to help clients move from crisis mode to lasting growth. Kim is married to a man in full-time ministry, and they have three children and an overly relational collie.

Heather is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alpharetta, Georgia, and earned her master’s degree in community counseling from Georgia State University. She has a passion for helping clients bounce back from disappointment, anxiety, and depression. Licensed for more than 20 years, Heather has tremendous experience teaching teens and adults to better navigate the complexities of their lives that have prevented them from getting to where they want to be. Over the years, Heather has collaborated with several physicians, school counselors, and other specialists to foster a multi-disciplinary and collaborative network in order to provide comprehensive care to her clients. Utilizing a practical approach along with her ability to meaningfully connect with her clients, Heather builds on strengths and identifies the obstacles that halt growth and forward movement. Whether it’s an overwhelmed parent, an anxious teen worried about their future, or a high-achieving executive wanting more balance in life, everyone’s situation is unique. Heather's friendly and approachable style combined with her skill in meeting each person where they are creates a positive atmosphere of clarity, growth, and change.

Heather has served as a Christian counselor for 20 years. During that time, she has been priviliged to serve in school, church, and private practice settings. She enjoys working with a diverse clientele, including adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She has specific training in trauma resolution including trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), narrative therapy, progressive counting and EMDR. In addition, she has an expertise in anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), depression, boundary setting, adolescent issues, and issues of faith.Heather has a passion for working with women struggling in their relationships with men who have sexual addictions and/or mental health issues. In addition to having four children of her own and previously fostering two children, she enjoys helping parents through the challenges they face. She frequently works with church staff and their spouses, as both she and her husband have held church positions and understand those challenges well.Heather is passionate about her relationship with Jesus and is humbled to watch as his grace and truth bring healing and transformation. In her free time, she loves to spend time outdoors with her husband, Lance, and with as many of their children they can round up. 7/14/20 additional issues she treats: ADHD, adoption, anger management, Asperger's syndrome, behavioral issues, Bipolar disorder, Child/adolescent chronic illness, coping skills, divorce, domestic abuse, domestic violence, emotional disturbance, video game addiction, spirituality, stress, substance abuse, suicidal ideation, family conflict, gender identity/transgender, internet addiction, life transition, marital/premarital, oppositional defiance, peer relationships, pregnancy, school issues, self-esteem, self harm, sleep/insomnia, sex therapy, sexual abuse, sexual addition

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.

In my work with couples, adults, and teens, Sonia’s hope is that clients will leave therapy confident in their strengths, equipped to make wise choices, and empowered to maintain healthier lives and relationships. She works to alleviate negative symptoms within the context of current circumstances, help identify the root of challenges, and modify unhealthy cognitive and emotional processes. Sonia’s interventions help clients break through an impasse and equip them with practical solutions for future problem solving. She offers targeted, short-term counseling or in-depth therapy that identifies and replaces negative patterns. In couples counseling, Sonia helps partners break negative cycles, learn effective communication skills, build deeper connection, co-parent effectively after divorce, or heal after an affair. She uses Dr. Gottman's research and other approaches, customizing treatment with questionnaires that speed up the process and give a clear picture of strengths and deficits. She also conducts premarital counseling assessments. Sonia offers eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a physiologically-based therapy for the treatment of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders, complicated grief, and adult or childhood trauma.

Katie's guiding principle is that we are designed for relationship. When we are disconnected within our body, mind, or spirit, cut off from meaningful relationships with significant others, separated from purpose in our larger community, or spiritually isolated, we miss the wholeness of life that we were intended to enjoy. Therapy can provide a supportive space where people are free to explore areas of disconnection, experience healing and reconnection, and move forward with confidence that while their past has shaped them, it no longer defines them. Katie works with children, adolescents, and adult women. She is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who obtained her Master of Social Work from University of Georgia in 2001 and her clinical license in 2003. Katie uses frameworks of interpersonal neurobiology and attachment theory and evidence-based/informed therapies with her clients. She uses these frameworks to treat anxiety, depression, and emotional and behavioral challenges rooted in various forms of trauma; help people involved in adoption to navigate issues related to attachment, grief and loss, trauma, and identity; counsel women who are navigating life transitions and developing renewed purpose; and provide parents with neurobiologically informed strategies.

Barbara believes that each person's spiritual, emotional, and physical qualities connect in such a way that a problem in one area affects the others. She spends the time to find the strengths the client already possesses, and then helps the client begin to facilitate their own change. Barbara has a strong desire to help couples in the hard times of their relationship and is a trained PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator. She also desires to help individuals with the challenges of life, including those facing grief, anxiety, or depression. Barbara has experience in the frustration and seeming hopelessness of a family dealing with a loved one in addiction. She knows the importance of getting help, not only for the addicted person, but for the family members as well. Barbara also has experience counseling wives, husbands, or couples walking through the challenges and pain of sex or porn addiction. Barbara has a master's degree in marriage and family therapy with a specialization in addiction from Richmont Graduate University. She works in the counseling ministry at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church during the day and sees private clients at her Woodstock office three evenings a week.