Natalie has a passion for calling out the gold in people. While working toward a bachelor’s degree in dance, Natalie discovered she enjoyed uplifting her fellow dancers even more than teaching classes or performing. She realized the artists she met needed encouragement just as much as technical training, and she sought to fill the gap by becoming a therapist. Before completing a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Liberty University, Natalie gained experience at a children’s home, where she worked with adolescents with behavioral concerns and parents who needed support. She also worked with adolescents and adults with eating disorders at an inpatient program and in a private practice setting. Natalie’s goal is to create a supportive relationship where her clients can find wholeness and healing. She now works with adolescents and adults experiencing anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem issues, disordered eating, and trauma. She is under the supervision of Lindsey Mart, LPC, CPCS.

Emmy strives to create a therapy environment where her clients feel heard and understood and are supported in the development of authenticity. She works with individual teens and adults struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, and life transitions. Emmy uses person-centered therapy as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in her work with clients. Together, Emmy and her clients work on reframing thought processes and building self-compassion.  Emmy earned her master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from Penfield College at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, and her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia. Emmy is working under the supervision of Joel Baker, LMFT, and the clinical direction of Meg McLeroy, LMFT. Please don’t hesitate to give me a call or connect via email!

Stacey believes our souls long for harmony through a healthy balance of mind, body, and spirit. She takes a holistic approach in her clinical work. Believing we all have a story that matters, she focuses on helping each client find what they need by understanding and owning their life story. She utilizes somatic work to connect the body and the mind, along with attachment work and Emotionally Focused Therapy to explore how and why we move in our relationships—and to create a path of learning how to do something different. Through the power of self-awareness, healing relationships, and the truth of one’s identity in Christ, Stacey believes restoration can be found.

Anxiety, worry, and stress can cripple anyone’s life to the point of fatigue, social isolation, depression, and the avoidance of valued activities and goals. People are often left feeling lonely, inadequate, socially anxious—even panicky. Ignoring anxiety or self-medicating with alcohol or drugs makes matters worse. Hector helps people grow and expand into a state of freedom, self-confidence, and empowerment so they can embrace life. Hector himself has recovered from crippling symptoms of anxiety disorders; he truly understands anxiety from the inside out! Traumatic experiences such as childhood abuse and neglect can haunt people for a lifetime. Reliving distressing memories or having nightmares or negative thoughts can make the past seem real when, in reality, it is not. Despite the best self-help efforts, after a short time some people return to the "same old, same old" without getting the results and symptom relief they long for. That's discouraging, isn't it? But long-lasting, personal change is possible. Relief is real; don't lose hope. You’re too important! As a psychotherapist, Hector has been helping people for over 12 years. Using scientifically proven, effective approaches such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based therapy, Hector assists people in developing coping skills they can implement naturally. Through quicker yet still effective methods like EMDR interlaced with hypnosis, Hector helps rewrite negative stories and memories stored in the subconscious mind, where distressing memories, irrational fears, and anxiety reside. In using these methods, people achieve a more thorough and long-lasting renovation of mind, body, spirit, and soul. Hector has also spent several years helping people overcome addictions. Late afternoon and Saturday appointments are available. Visit Hector’s website and call today for a free, confidential 15-minute phone consultation! Hector is only offering virtual services to his clients at this time, which can have the same treatment effect as in-person services.

Melissa Coats is a psychotherapist and sex therapist that specializes in helping individuals and couples resolve and manage issues regarding stress, sex, and self-esteem.

I bring over 15 years of experience to my work. I completed my Master’s in Professional Counseling at Richmont Graduate University in 2004 after obtaining a Bachelor in Science in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion at Furman University in 2002. I am trained in DBT and EMDR. If your faith is important to you, we can certainly incorporate that into our therapy. My approach integrates more concrete aspects of cognitive behavior therapy and more abstract and integrative components of faith and mindfulness. Being a person-centered therapist, I know that each of us has the desire and capacity for growth and change and I bring that knowledge to each session.

Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has worked in the mental health field since 2004 and wants to see her clients live holistic, full, integrated lives and thus in collaboration with the client attempts to address all concerns in a way that is customized to each individual person's needs and wants. For some individuals this will mean homework outside of sessions (CBT), for others it may mean the use of a specialized technique (like EMDR), and for some individuals this may mean traditional talk therapy (perhaps in conjunction with walking during therapy). Amanda sees adults for individual and group therapy for varying concerns including but not limited to grief, trauma, sexual addictions, depression, and anxiety.

Burke is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the state of Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Arts in business marketing at Auburn University and his Master of Science in professional counseling from Richmont Graduate University. His therapy focuses include but are not limited to life transitions, couples (dating, married, and engaged), depression, adolescent males, grief, and anxiety. He does not work with clients struggling with autism. Burke is trained in the PREPARE/ENRICH method and also completed an emotionally focused therapy (EFT) externship. In addition to his work in restoration therapy, he has also attended the Healing the Wounded Heart conference at the Allender Center. Burke served as a therapist at the Atlanta Mission: Shepherds Inn and the Hope Counseling Center from 2014 to 2015. He also served as the access center clinician at the Ridgeview Institute from 2015 to 2017. Since 2015, Burke has served as a therapist and Marriage Intensive Co-Facilitator at Lifegate Group.

Connie is the Founder and Director of New Hope Counseling Center. She has been practicing as a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia since 2004. Connie and her husband, Danny, have been married for 38 years. She has a passion for helping couples, individuals, and families renew their strength and commitment to each other and live life more abundantly. She has treated survivors of trauma (childhood trauma, adult emotional and physical abuse, and PTSD). Connie believes that men and women are created in the image of God, that there is a need for an intimate connection with Him, and oftentimes deep emotional pain causes a disconnect from Him and others. Connie's desire is to help people find hope and healing through the therapy process. She believes therapy is a way to facilitate change, but ultimately the change comes from within—from the client. Her commitment is to meet clients where they are and to motivate them and help them achieve their ultimate life goals.

Maureen S. Bixler, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Social Work from the University of Georgia. She has years of experience working with children, adolescents and families in both individual and group settings. She has worked in different social work settings such as schools, in-home counseling and child welfare. Maureen created Live Life Counseling, LLC in 2014, with the main goal to help others live life to its fullest potential. Maureen offers a holistic, healing approach to therapy. She utilizes many different treatment modalities; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), Existential Therapy, Family Systems, Attachment and Bonding Based Parenting, Strength Perspective and Client-Center Therapy. She offers individual, couple and family therapy. Often clients come to her with complex trauma which surfaces through addiction, anxiety and or depression. She utilizes Dialectical Behavioral Techniques (DBT) and Progressive Counting (PC) which allow a client to work through their issue and underlying trauma. In every session with Maureen she hopes to be a place for one to feel heard, validated and encouraged. Maureen loves spending time with her husband and being a mom to their four young children.