Therapy
It’s time to put you FIRST
Starting therapy is a courageous step towards healing and self-discovery. If you're feeling excited, nervous, or apprehensive (or all three!) about beginning your therapy journey, then know that this space is here to support you with warmth, skill, and care.
Whether you are seeking individual, couple, or family therapy, our approach is holistic, trauma-informed, and evidence-based, designed to support you in wholeness.
Together, we'll navigate your challenges and uncover the paths to a brighter tomorrow.
Kindred Counseling and Wellness is practicing at Midtown Psychotherapy Associates located in Midtown, Atlanta, GA.
We are currently accepting adult clients (18 years and older) for individual, couple, and family therapy.
Areas of Support
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Childhood relational trauma occurs when a child experiences repeated harm, neglect, inconsistency, or emotional disconnection within important caregiving relationships. These experiences can disrupt healthy emotional development and influence how individuals view themselves, relate to others, and experience safety and trust in relationships throughout their lives.
Therapy provides a safe space to process these experiences, understand their impact, and cultivate healthier patterns rooted in safety, self-trust, and emotional regulation.
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Anxiety is more than “just worrying” and it can show up as perfectionism, high-achieving, hypervigilance, a need for control, chronic irritability, boundary challenges, and avoidance.
Whether you are experiencing anxiety as general anxiety, social anxiety, phobias, or unwanted intrusive thoughts, our focus in therapy is learning how to tolerate uncertainty.
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Burnout and chronic stress happens when you’ve been carrying too much for too long. Whether that’s from caregiving, chasing career and life goals, balancing multiple roles, or from always being the “strong one”, burnout is an exhaustion like no other.
While slowing down, identifying what’s draining you, setting healthier boundaries, and creating sustainable ways to care for your mental and emotional well-being is important, true burnout recovery is about resolving underlying beliefs that fuel the pattern.
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Life transitions, such as relationship changes, career shifts, loss, identity changes, or new roles, can bring uncertainty, grief, or self-doubt even when the change is positive.
Therapy helps you navigate these transitions with clarity, process emotions, and reconnect with your sense of direction and inner stability.
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Women’s wellness focuses on the unique experiences women face related to hormones, womb health, and caregiving roles. This can look like navigating fibroids, menopause, motherhood, and so much more.
Therapy offers a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive lens to support women in reclaiming their body, voice, and sense of self.
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Relationship challenges can arise from communication breakdowns, unmet needs, recurring conflict, or life stressors. Couples and family therapy provides a supportive space to improve communication, strengthen understanding, and create more connected, respectful, and balanced relationships.
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Depression can feel like emotional heaviness, numbness, low motivation, or disconnection from yourself and others. It may impact energy, self-worth, and enjoyment of life. Therapy offers a supportive space to explore what’s beneath the sadness, restore hope, and gently reconnect with meaning, vitality, and self-compassion.
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Grief can follow the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a role, or a version of life you expected. It may come in waves and look different for everyone. Therapy offers space to honor your grief, process complex emotions, and gently find meaning and grounding as you move forward.
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Attachment patterns develop early in life and influence how we connect, relate, and feel secure in relationships. When attachment wounds are present, they can lead to people-pleasing, fear of abandonment, or emotional distance. Therapy supports you in healing these patterns, building secure attachment, and fostering relationships that feel safe, mutual, and fulfilling.
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Interpersonal relationship concerns can show up in friendships, family relationships, romantic partnerships, workplace dynamics, or everyday interactions. You may be navigating conflict, communication challenges, boundary issues, divorce or separation, or relational patterns that feel difficult to shift. Therapy offers support in understanding these dynamics and building healthier, more fulfilling connections.
Individual Therapy
Life can feel heavy when unhealed trauma, mood changes, or various stressors interfere with your well-being, relationships, goals, and overall life quality. Whether it’s the weight of childhood trauma, the pressure of balancing life responsibilities, the ache of relationship challenges, or the exhaustion depression and anxiety, you don’t have to navigate it all alone.
In therapy, we emphasize creating lasting change from the inside out by helping you understand your patterns, connect with your emotions and body, and develop the tools and awareness needed to create meaningful life changes.
Through a blend of emotional exploration, skill building, cognitive restructuring, and somatic practices, we support you in stepping into a more grounded, authentic version of you.
Couples Therapy
Whether you're experiencing conflicts, navigating life changes, or simply seeking to deepen your connection, couples therapy offers a collaborative and constructive environment where partners can express their needs and concerns while also learning the tools necessary for a more harmonious and fulfilling partnership.
We draw from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help you recognize and shift the conflict cycles that keep you stuck, guiding you toward creating a more securely attached, emotionally safe, and lasting bond. Alongside this, we integrate a Psychodynamic approach to explore how past experiences, unconscious motives, and family dynamics may be influencing the way you connect with one another today.
Together, we will uncover the patterns beneath the surface, work through moments of tension with compassion, and build new ways of relating that foster trust, intimacy, and resilience in your relationship.
Family Therapy
Family relationships can be a source of deep joy or deep pain. And when conflicts repeat or disconnection grows, it can feel difficult to know how to move towards joy rather than pain.
Family therapy is a collaborative process that explores the relational dynamics, communication patterns, and emotional histories shaping your family as a whole. Rather than focusing on one individual, it holds the entire system in view.
Similar to our approach to couples therapy, we utilize Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and integrate a Psychodynamic approach to support you in cultivating an emotionally safe environment, strengthen connection, and fostering deeper understanding and resilience.
Family therapy is open to all dynamics within the family unit for persons 18 years and older.
Therapy for Childhood Relational Trauma
Childhood relational trauma refers to the emotional and psychological wounds that result from harmful, neglectful, inconsistent, or unsafe relationships with parents, caregivers, or other significant adult relationships during childhood (0 to 18 years old).
Unlike trauma caused by a single event, childhood relational trauma develops within ongoing relationship experiences such as emotional neglect, abandonment, chronic criticism, rejection, betrayal, inconsistent caregiving, exposure to domestic violence, or physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual abuse.
Because these experiences occur during critical stages of development, they can have a lasting impact on a child's sense of safety, self-worth, emotional regulation, and ability to trust and connect with others throughout life. As an adult, you may struggle to form and maintain secure relationships, fear abandonment or rejection, experience chronic self-doubt, avoid intimacy while deeply craving connection, have difficulty regulating emotions, alternate between emotional numbness and hypervigilance, experience mood instability, and have nightmares along with several other trauma-related symptoms and patterns that can affect the quality of your life.
Healing from childhood relational trauma is a deliberate, highly personal, and multifaced process. In our work together, we use trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches that help you heal emotional wounds, understand and break unhealthy patterns, and cultivate a more regulated, confident sense of self.
Because childhood relational trauma affects every person differently, treatment is highly individualized. Our work together may incorporate a variety of evidence-based approaches designed to address trauma at the level of the mind, body, and relationships, including:
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Childhood relational trauma is not only stored in the mind — it lives in the body. Somatic therapy focuses on the connection between the mind and body, recognizing that trauma is also a physiological experience.
Through increased body awareness, grounding techniques, and nervous system regulation skills, somatic therapy helps you to recognize and release unprocessed trauma, learn to identify and regulate stress responses, and develop a greater sense of safety and presence in your own body.
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The stories we tell about ourselves are often shaped by our earliest experiences — and childhood relational trauma can leave us with a narrative centered on shame, unworthiness, or blame.
Narrative therapy helps you examine and reauthor that story, separating who you are from what happened to you. By externalizing the problem, challenging harmful beliefs, and creating a more empowering and compassionate personal narratives, you begin to see yourself — and your history — with greater clarity and self-compassion.
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Childhood relational trauma often disrupts our ability to manage intense emotions and navigate relationships without conflict or withdrawal.
DBT provides practical, evidence-based skills in four key areas — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness — giving you concrete tools to respond to difficult emotions and relationships with greater intention and stability.
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Our earliest relationships teach us what to expect from relationships with others — whether it feels safe, reliable, or threatening.
Attachment-based therapy explores how those early bonds shaped your relational patterns and helps you understand how they continue to show up in your adult relationships. By understanding attachment wounds and developing corrective emotional experiences within the therapeutic relationship, you can build greater trust, improve emotional security, and develop healthier, more secure fulfilling relationships with others and yourself.
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Much of what drives our thoughts, behaviors, and relational patterns operates beneath the surface — shaped by experiences we may not fully remember or have never had language for.
Psychodynamic therapy explores the unconscious roots of your emotional struggles, helping you uncover how unresolved childhood experiences continue to influence who you are and how you relate to others today. By bringing what is hidden into awareness, you gain deeper self-understanding and the freedom to make more conscious, intentional choices in your relationships and your life.
FAQs
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I’m glad you’re taking this step, and I value your consideration to move forward together! Here’s what you can expect.
Step 1: Free Consultation — 15 Minutes
The first step is to schedule your consultation. This is a brief virtual meeting to learn what is important to you in therapy right now, answer any questions you may have, and see if we’re a good fit to work together.
Step 2: Intake Session — 90 Minutes
If we decide to move forward, we will schedule your first appointment which is an intake session. This is where we’ll explore your history, current concerns and needs, establish your therapeutic goals, and begin creating a plan for your care.
Step 3: Therapy Sessions - 50 minutes per session
After our intake appointment, we’ll move forward with weekly or bi-weekly appointments to meet your therapeutic goals and needs.
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Individual Counseling:
$150 - 50 min session
$270 - 90 min one time intake session
Couple/Family Counseling:
$200 - 50 min session
$360 - 90 min one time intake session
*If this rate is not affordable to you at the moment, please reach out anyway as I may be able to offer a reduced rate upon availability.
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Although I do not accept insurance, I can provide a superbill which you can submit to your insurance provider to see if you qualify for reimbursement.
I also offer a co—pay match, sliding scale (fee based on income) and a few reduced rate slots upon availability.
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Yes, I offer both telehealth and in-person sessions.
For in-person, I am located at 199 Armour Drive, Atlanta, GA 30324. Feel free to arrive 10 minutes early for your appointment to enjoy our coffee and tea station.
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There is no exact answer as every client is different from their needs, history, severity of concern, and symptoms.
At minimal, expect at least 8-10 sessions.
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My approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that you are the expert of your own world, and our work together is a collaboration. I bring clinical training, skilled experience, and attuned therapeutic care, while you bring your lived experiences, openness to the process, and inner wisdom.
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No, I only offer therapy to adult clients 18 years and older.
If you need a referral for a child/teen therapist, then please feel free to contact me on the contact page and I’ll be happy to help.
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