Is your marriage strained? Has your spouse had an affair and you need help picking up the pieces? Are you feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or depressed? Are you getting a divorce and want to make sure your kids are okay? Are you having trouble relating to your older kids or teenagers? Have you lost someone dear to you? As a marriage and family therapist, Christie helps people find strength while supporting them through the pain. She has worked with clients dealing with recovery from a divorce, an affair, or an abortion. Christie also has experience in marriage and family conflict, parenting, peer relationships, and premarital counseling. In addition to her work regarding life transition issues, coping with illness and menopause, and spiritual abuse, she also works with clients who are struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, loss, miscarriage, self-esteem, and self-worth. Christie has her degree in marriage and family therapy and is trained in emotionally focused therapy (EFT), the number one treatment for marriages and relationships. If you are hurting, please call to find a resolution that brings relief and peace.

Helen-Grace has experience working with clients regarding issues of codependency, family members or partners with substance abuse issues, boundary and relationship issues, as well as anxiety, stress, grief, and loss. She longs to provide a space to work collaboratively with clients and explore what works best for them as they strive for healing and growth. Helen-Grace enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families. She has experience working with family members and partners of individuals with substance abuse issues. Living life with someone in active addiction can be overwhelming and frightening. Helen-Grace hopes to provide a space to process the hardships that come along with that. She also works with teenagers struggling with anxiety, depression, and phase-of-life issues. 

You’re smart, creative, and capable, but life still feels harder than it should. Maybe your mind is always going, rest feels impossible, or you’re constantly juggling too many tabs open (in your head and your life). You might find yourself procrastinating, overcommitting, or cycling through bursts of energy and burnout. You’ve done your best to keep it all together, but it’s exhausting. I work with teens and adults who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or like they’re always “on” but never quite catching up.  Many of my clients are creatives or deep thinkers who’ve always taken the unconventional path. Others have spent years masking their struggles, wondering why things that seem easy for others feel so draining. Whether you’ve named it or not, you might be carrying invisible weight that’s getting harder to bear alone. Therapy with me is a space to let your guard down. I approach our work with curiosity, compassion, and a belief that growth happens when we feel seen and supported as our full selves. Together, we’ll make sense of the patterns holding you back, reconnect you with your strengths, and build practical tools for more ease and alignment in your daily life. 

Rachel brings a unique perspective and a deep passion for helping individuals process, cope with, and recover from trauma and attachment disorders. They utilize evidence-based practices in individual, group, and family sessions, integrating a trauma-informed approach that includes client-centered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness techniques. Their specialties include working with people experiencing trauma, PTSD, bereavement, parental challenges, anxiety, and depression. Committed to providing empathic and holistic care, Rachel believes in the power of an empowering and collaborative process as essential for fostering healing and transformation. They work closely with clients to improve their quality of life, helping them gain new insights, heal old wounds and patterns, and uncover their hidden resources and strengths. Rachel offers a safe and affirming space that welcomes LGBTQ+ individuals, embraces gender diversity, and is conscious of the needs of neurodivergent and disabled clients. Their practice is also respectful of each person’s cultural background and the unique relationship they have with it.

Mary Hathaway is a licensed master social worker and counselor. Through her work with families involved in foster care and single parents facing poverty, she knows that our lives are full of unexpected changes, difficult transitions, and devastating loss. However, she believes that amid transitions, we have an opportunity to heal, become more ourselves, and make decisions about our values and identities that can guide us into the future. She is passionate about offering support and evidence-based strategies to treat symptoms of anxiety and depression as individuals experience drastic life transitions, whether beginning college, navigating post-grad life, losing or gaining a job, grieving a difficult loss, or adjusting to the incredible changes of pregnancy and postpartum. If you’re feeling overwhelmed and anxious with all that is coming at you, Mary would love to be a part of your support team as you navigate changes, deal with past wounds, and figure out what you value for the future.

Do you feel stuck in areas of your life, unable to move forward? Are you seeking guidance as you try to balance meeting the needs of others with your own? Have you tried counseling in the past and didn't get the results you wanted? As a licensed professional counselor and psychotherapist in practice for over 30 years, Cheryl utilizes evidence-based therapeutic interventions to help her clients with the inevitable disappointments, losses, and ruptured relationships of life.  Her specialties include anxiety and panic disorders, depression, PTSD/trauma, relationship issues, and grief. Often, the issues people seek therapy for are rooted in unresolved childhood complex trauma, and as a certified EMDR practitioner and board certified clinical hypnotherapist, Cheryl understands the importance of changing the brain in order to heal trauma. She utilizes EMDR and hypnotherapy to create change rather than simply helping clients cope. With experience in several counseling approaches, Cheryl teaches her adult male and female clients therapy tools she has refined over the years and experienced in her own healing journey. She integrates mindfulness and breathing techniques into all of her therapeutic work to help clients manage distress and ease tension in the body. She believes the supportive connection created in a therapy relationship should be a collaborative one where clients can change negative beliefs and let go of unhealthy patterns/habits in order to experience more peace and joy in their lives.  Cheryl has a special interest in working with women newly diagnosed with breast cancer as well as young adults in their 20s setting out on their life's journey. In addition, Cheryl offers women's groups for those who wish to deepen their connections with other women. As a mother of an adopted adult child, she brings a unique perspective to parenting. In her spare time, Cheryl enjoys hiking, mountain biking, reading, and spending time with her golden doodle, Loki. 

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.

After all your hard work, do you still feel frustrated, overwhelmed and like you are not enough? It's exhausting! Do you want to stop feeling guilt about past mistakes? You deserve peace. I've been there and I can help you break free too. I primarily work with people struggling with perfectionism, anxiety, helping them embrace their imperfections and authentically be themselves. I help clients work through concerns of self-worth, unhealthy relationships, identity, creating healthy boundaries and feeling overwhelmed. In addition, I am an EMDR Therapist. EMDR Therapy is an extensively researched psychotherapy approach that helps people recover from trauma and other life distressing experiences including, anxiety, PTSD, depression, and unhealed memories. My clients welcome my direct but open approach to therapy. I will meet you where you are, providing you the freedom to change when you're ready. If your faith is an important part of your life that you want to integrate into counseling, I will incorporate it into our sessions. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia. I practice in person in Dunwoody and provide online telemental health sessions.

Abby is a Licensed Professional Counselor originally from South Africa, now serving clients in the United States. Abby has a Masters of Science degree in Mental Health Psychology from the University of Liverpool, coupled with a BPSYCH Equivalent Honors degree obtained in South Africa.  Abby’s approach is rooted in the principles of person-centered care, blending traditional talk therapy with evidence-based neuro-experiential modalities. She is passionate about guiding individuals towards recognizing and addressing maladaptive relational patterns, while empowering them to rewire their brains to heal deeply entrenched traumas and attachment issues. Abby enjoys working with all populations and ages and has recently discovered great fulfillment in supporting Deeply Feeling Kids (DFK), recognizing them as a distinct and newly acknowledged segment within childhood psychology. With their families, she advocates for a specialized approach to caregiving and parenting, tailored to the unique needs of these empathetic young people. Within her work, she also assists deeply feeling teens and adults, many of whom have never been fully recognized or supported, find healing and growth through self-discovery. Another great interest for Abby is woman in their late 30’s and 40’s navigating motherhood, purpose, hormonal transitions and life transitions that happens during these years. When Abby is not working, you can usually find her enjoying a grand coffee, with a book that smells of new pages, lifting children to and from school and sporting events, all the while with an unequivocal desire to discover life’s convergence of chaos and beauty in being a mom, a wife, and a person of this earthly world.  “GROWTH IS CHANGE. When everything is easy, we have no reason to change. The most painful moments in life expand us. And when the pain leaves, space remains. Space we can fill with life itself!”    

Do you find yourself feeling down, more overwhelmed than usual, or perhaps worried about every little thing? Are you going through a significant life transition or experiencing some form of loss? At some point, we will all face an unexpected change, some form of trauma, or will need a listening ear.  Leola D’Aversa is the founder of Healing at the Source, LLC where her passion is to help young adults heal and navigate life's challenges. Leola is a licensed professional counselor and grief-informed professional in GA. The Colorado native holds a master’s degree from Argosy University and a BA from Spelman College. Her specialties include anxiety, depression, and grief. Leola believes that therapy is collaborative. She will work with you to process your feelings, change unproductive thoughts and behaviors, and build upon your strengths so that you can live a happier, more fulfilling life.