Karen desires to create a safe, compassionate environment where clients can explore difficulties knowing they will be cared for and heard. She considers it an honor to walk alongside individuals and couples to help them navigate life's challenges and restore a sense of hope. With specialized training in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and sex therapy, her passion is to help clients work through anxiety, depression, trauma, intimacy, sexual concerns, and sexual traumas. Karen is PREPARE/ENRICH certified and enjoys working with couples considering marriage. Karen is a licensed associate professional counselor (LAPC), a licensed associate marriage and family therapist (LAMFT), and an associate member of the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists. Her undergraduate degree is from Wheaton College, and her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy with a certificate in Christian sex counseling is from Richmont Graduate University. Karen works under the direction and supervision of Linda Merrion and Vickie George.

Since 2009, Sean has been sharing hope, humor, and authenticity with his clients. He specializes in serving teenagers and adults to help deal with depression, anxiety, anger, and addiction issues. Additionally, he has extensive experience in counseling with Veterans and first responders with unique trauma experiences. Sean is highly effective in helping people heal hurts they have carried and often have kept secret or hidden from others. Sean’s passion is seeing people develop new chapters in life-to the point that those closest to them take notice-as they broaden their understanding of themselves and others. Sean treats those who are struggling with: depression, social and performance anxiety, anger, relationship issues, trauma, post-traumatic stress, addiction recovery, substance abuse, grief and loss. Sean’s inclusive counseling approach draws from a variety of psychological, behavioral, and spiritual approaches to address the unique needs of each client. He is client-centered and develops a series of interventions that balance challenging thought processes without feeling shame. Beyond doing talk therapy, Sean has advanced training in EMDR, which specializes in treating issues related to trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and loss, often more quickly than traditional talk-therapies. EMDR allows for healing from “triggers” that lead to trauma symptoms and emotional distress, by resetting them to bring about neurological and emotional healing. People experiencing intense emotions, losing energy or “oomph,” or feeling overwhelmed and pulled a million different ways, find that EMDR provides lasting changes to handle the stressors of everyday life without the same difficulty as before. ADDITIONALLY Prior to private practice, Sean worked as a clinical director for Veteran’s Affairs in the PTSD clinic. Sean has also worked as a clinician and director for individuals working toward addiction recovery in South Florida, as well as in community mental health working with teenagers, young adults, and their families. ​Sean and his wife, Stevie, have been married since 2014 and enjoy traveling (especially anywhere with a beach), searching for the best local food and coffee spots, going for excessive amounts of walks as well as learning to cook new meals together.

Having a passion to work with people to bring healing and resolution, Mike strives to encourage and equip others to reach their greatest potential and empower them with the necessary tools to guide them in this process. His approach to counseling is both collaborative and integrative, drawing from Cognitive Behavioral, Interpersonal, Psychodynamic, and Family Systemic Theories. He has discovered that each person has a fascinating life story to share. Through one’s story, we discover how each person was influenced by past experiences, both positive and negative; interactions with family members and peers; and beliefs constructed around thoughts and feelings experienced during significant life events. Utilizing the above mentioned theories greatly assists him in better understanding each person, his/her story, and root causes that fuel patterns of behavior. In addition to addressing the issues that brings the client to seek relief, we will together acknowledge and augment the person’s strengths.

Carleen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who enjoys working with adult and adolescent individuals, families, and couples. She is the former Director of Clinical Services for the Summit Counseling Center, a Certified Professional Counseling Supervisor (CPCS), and a nationally Accredited Counseling Supervisor (ACS). Carleen finds it an honor to help her clients define their goals, find their inner compass, and create the life they have always imagined. She believes that we are all looking for love and belonging and that we are innately driven toward positive growth. Her goal is to walk beside her clients as they move toward increased hope, enhanced life satisfaction, greater spirituality, and sustainable peace. She specializes in helping clients manage life transitions, as well as in the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and loss. Carleen is a Certified Daring Way Facilitator specializing in the work of Brene Brown. She is also a trained DBT therapist who works extensively with dysregulated emotions, self-harming behaviors, and suicidal ideation. She sees couples for premarital counseling, marriage counseling, and discernment counseling. The InnerCompass Counseling Center is in Alpharetta. 

Here at Towler Counseling LLC, we strive to put our clients first. We believe in mindfulness in the counseling setting, we works with children to adults utilizing Cognitive Behavior therapy, EMDR, person centered therapy and play therapy to assist the client in exploring the root cause of the behavior problems, low self-esteem, and peer relationships. We are here to help is the first step towards a healthier, more balanced life. Towler Counseling LLC, in addition to individual therapy we offer we work with women who have experienced pregnancy loss, life after a baby, and termination of pregnancy. We work with you to builds a personalized treatment plan and takes you through the process at your own pace.

In Mark’s clinical practice, he prefers to work from a cognitive behavioral approach, helping individuals, couples, and families identify and change the causes of dysfunctional thinking and behavior in order to make more balanced and realistic appraisals of themselves, their world, and their future. He wants to help them enjoy more satisfying relationships and improve their communication and problem-solving skills. He works well with people of all faiths, and is able to integrate spirituality and clinical practice, while respecting the individual wishes of each client. Mark provides effective psychotherapy and counseling to individuals struggling with issues such as acute stress, bothersome levels of anxiety, persistent depression (which may be due to difficult family situations), challenging career choices, stalled personal growth and development, and the need to balance family/work concerns. He is a trained clinician in the application of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychological consequences of adult or childhood trauma, accident, loss, or abuse.

Licensed Professioal Counselor in practice for 37 years. Schooling from Georgia State and Richmont (a Christian graduate training program in counseling). I have worked in several inpatient and outpatient settings and am a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

Like everything else, over time relationships can take a lot of wear and tear. What was once a close, fulfilling relationship can end up being very painful. Whether the relationship is a marriage, a romance, with a friend, with a relative, or with a coworker, there is help available. Linda is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT). She has a Master of Science and, during her 30 years of practice, has been helping individuals, couples, and families navigate challenges and recover the joy and contentment they once enjoyed. Linda has been trained in emotionally focused therapy (EFT)––a counseling technique pioneered by Susan Johnson, Ph.D. The focus of EFT is to help clients identify their negative cycles that keep them stuck. Once they begin to see these patterns, Linda is able to help them access the core emotions that need to be expressed and cared for by their partner. This is done in a caring, nonjudgmental environment, which allows new, safe emotional connections to develop and healing to take place. Linda specializes in affair recovery, parent/child relationships, teenagers, PREPARE/ENRICH premarital assessments, and career assessments using the Highlands Ability Battery (HAB).

Dr. Cheryl Gibson is a Licensed Professional Counselor with Care and Counseling Center of Georgia. Working primarily with young adults ages 17-25, although her practice also includes adult individual and couples counseling. Her clinical focus is based on a holistic model of mind, body and spirit using CBT, DBT and psychoanalysis. With an earned doctorate in Counseling in 2012 and a Masters in Social Work in 2003 she delivers compassionate and professional services to a diverse a population.

Rick is a licensed psychologist with 20 years of experience. He provides individual counseling services for commonly presented issues such as relationship issues, family issues, and career concerns. In addition, he offers support and counsel for clinical symptoms such as anxiety and stress, depression, self-esteem, anger, poor sleep, etc. Rick has a background in performance and sport psychology.