Gambling Therapists in Smyrna, GA

My name is Ivy Dey-Johnson, and I am a License Clinical Social Worker who utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to assist Clients with concerns, issues, or problems. As a Marine Corps Veteran, I am comfortable treating Veterans, active duty Military, and Reserves and their Significant Others. I specialize in substance use and gambling addiction, along with the comorbidity of mental health symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD. I believe how we perceive a situation elicits an emotion/feeling that is expressed in our behavior.

Coming to therapy can be hard. Our goal is to make therapy and coaching a positive experience. We work mainly with all addictions including sex, porn and gambling as well as relationship issues, couples work and anxiety. We also work with couples having relationship concerns and those seeking premarital counseling. We offer life coaching for those looking to break negative life patterns and those that are having a hard time managing life transitions. We also specialize in teen issues as well as transgender and identity issues and are certified to do phone and video sessions.

Coming to therapy can be hard. My goal is to make therapy and coaching a positive experience. I work mainly with all addictions including sex, porn and gambling as well as relationship issues, couples work and anxiety. I also work with couples having relationship concerns and those seeking premarital counseling. I offer life coaching for those looking to break negative life patterns and those that are having a hard time managing life transitions. I also specialize in teen issues as well as transgender and identity issues and are certified to do phone and video sessions.

I typically work with individuals with various diagnoses, couples struggling with marital issues and families navigating divorce, blended families, co-parenting, grief, insomnia, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, and OCD. I am well-suited, competent, and clinically trained in a variety of treatment approaches including but not limited to CBT, Trauma, attachment injury, internal family systems, DBT, and childhood trauma. I have an interest in working with substance misuse, and all types of addiction, including gambling and increasingly common tech porn.

If you are dealing with the challenges of alcohol or other substance problems (including gambling)—your own or those of a loved one—you know all-to-well the painful impacts these can bring. I can help. As a licensed psychologist, CEO, and thought leader in the addictions field for more than twenty years, I know the treatment system thoroughly. I provide expert care, clear diagnosis, and collaborate with other treatment entities to ensure the ready availability of any care level needed, including residential. Long-term sobriety and recovery are reasonable expectations, even if you have tried treatment before without success.

Dominique Driessen Espana is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Addiction Counselor. She earned her Master’s in Mental Health Counseling from South University. She began her career in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling and has continued to provide counseling services to those struggling with Addiction, Depression and Anxiety. Dominique has worked in a variety of settings that includes the Department of Corrections, College Counseling Centers, Managed Care Companies and Behavioral Health Hospitals. Dominique has over 20 years of experience in the field and looks forward to working with you on your journey.

The Populations I have had Experience working with include but are not limited to: Adolescents and Teens: ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, ODD, Anger Challenges, Challenges with Compliance to Rules, Probation/Legal Involvement, Trauma 2. Athletes: Performance Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Depression, Adjustment Disorder, Communication Challenges, mood swings, Trauma 3. Adults: Anxiety, Depression, Psychosis, Trauma, Grief, Addiction, Impulse Control, Couples, Families, LGBTQ+

My goal is to help individual, couples, and families process through their emotions in order to make sense of their world and to lead more productive and fulfilling lives. I have convenient evening and weekend hours available.

The road to a better life begins here. I listen. I believe that being a good listener is key to understanding my patients. My priority is to be psychologically and emotionally present with my patients. I listen effectively and I listen to learn. I offer solution- based therapy techniques in the first session that will begin your journey to a better life immediately. You want you to feel heard, seen, and respected. I see crying as an essential part of mental hygiene. If you apply the therapeutic tools that I will teach you, truly a better life begins here. Honoring my client's human dignity is key.

If you need to be heard and validated for your emotions and your dreams about life, I will listen and respond to you. I have provided pastoral care to troubled church members and to troubled youth in group homes and in jail cell blocks for more that ten years. I work with families and children who's lives revolve around the issues of one or more family members struggles with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I have provided group experiences for traumatized and delinquent youth. If I can help, I will help.

I want to say thank you for viewing my profile. I do not know what it is that you may be struggling with, but I know that I have a genuine and heartfelt passion to help you become a better version of yourself. I am here to help and I am here to listen! I have spent the past 12 years of my life in tireless dedication and service of others and I am here to help you through your struggles whether with depression, anxiety, addiction, marital/couple struggles, grief, PTSD, trauma, incarceration/military/sexual trauma, life coaching, career guidance, life satisfaction, or any other mental/emotional health challenges. I am here to help!

I have been a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor for 25 years. Understanding the loss that comes with addiction, my goal is to help people gain tools for recovery and stability, to create accountability and support, to help restore relationships, to give hope and encouragement. My experience has been within the judicial system/Board of Pardons and Paroles, psychiatric hospitals, wilderness treatment programs, therapeutic boarding schools, treatment facilities and private practice. I work with adolescents, young adults, adults and couples...and their families.

I see clients in Virginia, Georgia and Florida via HIPPA compliant Telehealth platform. I help clients overcome obstacles and become better versions of themselves. I specialize in the treatment of women's issues, anxiety disorders, relationship issues, family conflict and life transitions. I have worked in a wide variety of treatment settings which include private practice, community mental health agencies, residential treatment centers and psychiatric hospitals. My unique experiences help me to provide each client with the specific tools needed to overcome whatever obstacles they may be facing.