With more than a decade of counseling experience, Lauren has a passion for helping clients experience healing and hope. She enjoys empowering individuals, couples, and families to overcome challenges and believes that being healthy and being happy are often one and the same. Having received counseling herself, she understands the importance of finding a counselor the client feels comfortable with. Lauren values the connection with her clients, and they have said that she genuinely cares and takes the time to know them well. Lauren’s specialties include: physical and emotional intimacy, trauma recovery, grief and loss, depression, anxiety, affair recovery, communication, conflict resolution, and premarital counseling. She uses empirically validated techniques such as the Gottman Method, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)to help clients reach their goals. Lauren has been married to her best friend, Josh, since 2008 and has two sons, Caleb and Mason. She's also mom to labradoodle Felix, who can join counseling sessions at the client’s request. In her free time, she enjoys talking with others, reading, writing, and spending time outside.

A proud HBCU alum, Dr. Fortuchang earned her BA (with honors) from Hampton University, and earned her medical doctorate from Meharry Medical College School of Medicine in 2006. She completed General Psychiatry residency training at The University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 2009. Dr. Fortuchang completed sub-specialty fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine in 2011, where she also had the privilege of serving as Chief Fellow. In 2012, Dr. Fortuchang completed sub-specialty fellowship training in Forensic Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a Diplomate of and is triple-board certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Fortuchang is a teacher at heart and harbors a deep passion for education, both professionally and within the community. She has been a guest speaker on several talk radio shows; a keynote speaker for mental health seminars at several churches including Dogwood Church in Tyrone, GA, Beulah Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta and Mount Welcome Missionary Baptist Church in Decatur, GA; has lectured for The Reynolds Ministries United Methodist Foundation and Richmont Graduate University, and she has been a repeat speaker at various national conferences for Christian counselors. Throughout her career, she has participated in workshops to enlighten the community about mental disorders to help diminish the paralyzing stigma and shame. Dr. Fortuchang is an active member of various professional organizations, she is a Fellow of The American Psychiatric Association, she is an Adjunct Professor at Richmont Graduate University, she is the Medical Director of The Fort Christian Psychiatric Center, which she and her husband co-founded and co-own, and she has been blessed with the privilege of helping to raise two step-children. She and her husband, Dr. Joseph Fortuchang, are covenant members of Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral in Austell, GA, under the leadership of Bishop Dale C. Bronner. Dr. Fortuchang received Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior at 9 years of age. To God be all the glory, honor and praise!

Patrice is passionate about helping moms see that they aren't alone in the challenges of motherhood. She specializes in postpartum depression, managing stress and anxiety, and work life balance. She received her counseling degree from Georgia State University in 2006.  Patrice has experience working in managed care, intensive family intervention, and at Ridgeview Institute. Her approach to counseling is using a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and client-centered therapy. Patrice offers individual therapy sessions as well as parent coaching. 

As a therapist, Madison is passionate about providing clients a space to feel heard, supported, and understood. She believes everyone has the ability to change as they also celebrate the life they were given. She practices therapy from a client-centered approach, as the client is the expert on their own life. Her role is to guide clients to change and gain new understanding. She enjoys working with people ages 13+ that are struggling with depression, anxiety, women's issues, divorce, blended families, transitions, self-esteem, and trauma. When working with couples, she uses interventions and techniques from Gottman Therapy by John Gottman. Her goal is to provide her clients a space where they feel comfortable sharing their stories while gaining hope, self-acceptance, awareness, and confidence.

Are you seeking to make long-lasting improvements in your life? Do you struggle with anxiety that gets in the way of life sometimes? Are you looking to improve a relationship with a significant other, spouse, or family member? Do you feel powerless, stuck, or ill-equipped to make these necessary changes? Despite your best efforts, you may be stuck in old patterns that may be keeping you from living your best life. Dr. Williams specializes in treating individuals who experience depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, unresolved trauma, and relationship challenges. She has advanced training in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), a treatment for reducing anxiety and distress associated with traumatic events. Dr. Williams is a board-certified counselor with over 15 years of experience providing counseling services for adolescents, young adults, adults, couples, and families. She is also a speaker, workshop facilitator, and frequently featured contributor for several publications and podcasts related to mental and emotional wellness. Dr. Williams is passionate about helping people get to a place of peace where they can find acceptance of the past!

Katie works with adolescents and young adults. She specializes in issues common to these developmental stages including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, grief, and loss. She is passionate about helping people through these often difficult and transitional stages of life.  Katie knows that the relationship she establishes with her clients is fundamentally important to the success that her client’s experience within therapy. Katie graduated with both her Bachelors and her Masters Degree from UGA (Go Dawgs!). Katie and her husband live in Alpharetta and love spending their free time at the beach.

Kellie considers it an honor to walk with her clients through the difficulties they face. In her work with adults, couples, and families, she strives to provide a warm, safe, non-judgmental environment for her clients as they move toward healing and wholeness. Her practice focuses on relationship issues, sexual dysfunctions, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, family of origin issues, and life transitions. She specializes in Christian sex therapy and enjoys working with individuals and couples to enhance healthy sexuality and diminish relational distress. Kellie’s specialization focuses on topics including low sexual desire, painful sex, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, sexual trauma and abuse, and sex after childbirth and menopause. She has completed Level 2 training in Gottman method couples therapy and can provide couples/marital assessments based on the research and work of Dr. John Gottman. Kellie also enjoys working with engaged couples and is a certified PREPARE/ENRICH counselor.

A licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the state of Georgia, Hannah received a Master of Arts in professional counseling from Richmont Graduate University. She is passionate about helping people who desire change and healing for their life and their relationships. Hannah enjoys working with women, adolescents, and families who wish to confront life's challenges with courage, confidence, and simplicity. She loves coming alongside individuals to address issues such as anxiety, depression, stress management, family conflict, women's issues, trauma, spirituality, and abuse.

The majority of David’s clients are personally referred by satisfied and appreciative former clients who experienced him as approachable and comfortable, yet professional and competent. He sees people individually or as a couple for a wide range of issues. As both an ordained minister and a licensed therapist, David’s goal is to guide people toward wholeness in mind, body, spirit, and relationships. His specialties include relationship therapy (for an individual or a couple) and recovery from grief or trauma using specialized forms of therapy such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), if requested. In addition to his clinical work, he provides administrative leadership as the executive director of The Summit Counseling Center. David also provides clinical supervision for therapists seeking licensure as either an LPC or LMFT and supervises pastoral counselors.

Harmony offers a faith-based approach in her work with couples and individuals. Relationships can be difficult, and she helps people learn communication skills that facilitate a deeper understanding of themselves and each other. For 20 years, Harmony has been counseling people through difficulties and life transitions and has been in a private practice for the last 10 years. Her office is in Roswell, GA, and is situated close to East Cobb as well as Alpharetta and Sandy Springs. Call for a free 20-minute phone consultation and schedule an appointment.