Therapists in 30622

Having someone to walk alongside you in your journey to psychological/emotional health can move you from surviving into thriving. Navigating life can be stressful, overwhelming, and at times painful. Dealing with difficulties like life transitions, stress, managing depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, or making seemingly impossibly difficult decisions, all the while trying to maintaining positive self-esteem and finding helpful ways to cope with life demands, is a really hard thing to do. Feeling close to the people we love can feel hard when we struggle to find the ability to be vulnerable in a tough world.

Accepting new clients. As a therapist with over 20 years experience and a mom living with the joys and challenges of parenting, career, and a busy family, I am passionate about supporting people at all stages of life. I help new moms who may need help with adjustment or may even be dealing with postpartum depression or anxiety as well as all parents across the lifespan who are dealing with different stages of parenting from dealing with infants, toddlers to big kids, tweens, teens, young adults, adult children, and even those stressed as they feel sandwiched between caring for kids and caring for their own aging parents.

The quality of our relationships and connection to others is often the very core of our well-being. We all want to feel safe, loved, and understood. At times, we can feel alone and our challenges can feel overwhelming. I provide a safe and welcoming space to work through fears and make real and positive changes. I am here to help you find healing and offer guidance through struggles with life transitions, feeling anxious or depressed, or navigating relationships with the important people in your life; including yourself. My passion is working with adults and various types of relationships; such as friendships, familial, work, etc.

You want to feel better and get better. I help you do that by empowering you with helpful tools grounded in evidence-based treatments. Ultimately, the goal for you is long-term emotional health. My thirty years of counseling experience and eleven years of clinical mental health counselor and life coach training allows me to help individuals, couples, and professional athletes work through their emotions in a safe, confidential, and professional setting.

Accepting new clients now. Life can be challenging, from finishing college, to simply handling adulthood, and navigating big changes in life, to realizing you’re not where you thought you’d be by now. Maybe you are not loving work or your relationships are failing. I have worked with people who have turned to alcohol, drugs, food, or self-injury to cope with these kinds of things. Others have shut down in the form of depression or paralyzing anxiety. When these ways of handling life’s stressors are not effective, there is help. I am so proud of you for taking the first steps and prioritizing your mental health.

As a relational, psychodynamic psychotherapist, I work to help my clients discover their own guiding voice, to listen with intent, and to cultivate love and acceptance of their truest nature. I work with adult clients to help deconstruct narratives that no longer serve them and get closer to the truth of who they are. Issues like sexuality, spirituality, existentialism, unconscious belief systems, family and partnership, and many more of life's great challenges guide the work of self-exploration.

Accepting new clients. As a therapist, I work to develop a secure & trusting relationship with clients rooted in transparency and mutual vulnerability. We will work together to find your strengths, parts of you that have been lost to society’s grueling demands. How can you access a deep level of emotion when just trying to keep your head above water today? When you juggle a job, school, children, relationships, it can be challenging to experience moments of joy. My goal is to encourage you in your journey and help to make life more manageable & fulfilling-improving your interpersonal relationships, job/school performance & life

Porcha Simmons is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with years of mental health counseling experience. She is passionate about helping children, adolescents and young adults navigate life’s stresses including school and transitioning into young adulthood. Porcha specializes in child and adolescent therapy, adjustment struggles, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem-related problems, and relationship issues (romantic, peer, or familial). Porcha completed her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Piedmont College and earned his Master's degree in Social Work at the University of Georgia.

Is your son unhappy or troubled? Experiencing difficulty at school, at home, or somewhere else? Problems with peers? Parents, especially those of older children, sometimes feel powerless and frustrated regarding these situations. I would be honored to help your son and your family.