Randy Scott joins The Wing Center with over 28 years of experience in assisting individuals, couples, and families through various life challenges. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Randy is well-versed in assisting couples, families, and individuals through a wide range of challenges. His experience spans from working with individuals who have relationship concerns, depression, addiction, anxiety, questions about spiritual formation, or want to focus on job clarification to couples and families who are healing after an affair, grieving after a loss, or negotiating various challenges in parenting. Randy considers it a privilege to work with people in the private matters of their lives.

As a newly licensed associate professional counselor, Jill is full of anticipation. She imagines that clients coming to counseling for the first time might feel the same way—a little nervous, but hoping for positive experiences. Jill has learned there is something powerful that happens when you find a listening ear belonging to someone who’s totally for you. Though no one wants to experience disappointment, depression, anxiety, the loss of a loved one, or moments of defeat, the hardships of life are inevitable. Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation where we need someone to walk along beside us, offering us hope and a helping hand. Just as this has been done for her, Jill desires to walk with someone else and help them find hope amid their trials. Jill believes God has given each person intrinsic worth, purpose, and identity. Her faith inspires her to counsel with excellence, using evidence-based theories and techniques. Most importantly, Jill believes God has a powerful, life-giving, life-changing love that has the ability to transform and restore broken hearts and relationships. She wants to hear your story and help you move beyond the struggles you’re facing.

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.