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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

  • Childhood trauma refers to experiences, or witnessing experiences, in early life that overwhelms a child’s ability to cope with distress or danger, and disrupts their sense of self, safety, and emotional security.

    Relational trauma refers to the psychological harm and emotional wounds caused by the chronic disruption of one’s emotional, physical, and/or sexual safety in close relationships that erodes one’s sense of self.

    Therapy provides a safe space to process these experiences, understand their impact, and cultivate healthier patterns rooted in safety, self-trust, and emotional regulation.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Women exist within systems that have long policed and criticized their bodies, appearance, roles, and womb. The pressures of motherhood, marriage, and career ask women to suppress their needs, emotions, and natural rhythms — leading to burnout, emotional suppression, over-functioning, and a slow disconnection from self. This includes navigating womb-related concerns such as fibroids, reproductive health challenges, and hormonal shifts that often go unprocessed and ungrieved.

    Therapy offers a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive lens to support women in reclaiming their body, voice, and sense of self.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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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

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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

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Family relationships can be a source of deep joy or deep pain. And when conflicts repeat or disconnection grows, it can feel overwhelming to know how to move forward and towards joy rather than pain.

Cultivate a healthier family dynamic and weather life’s challenges together by learning how to healthily resolve conflict, improve communication, and promote understanding and acceptance within your family.

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 and developing skills to foster trust, resilience, and connection.

Family therapy is open to all dynamics within the family unit for persons 18 years and older.

Specializing in Childhood and Relational Trauma

We specialize in Childhood and Relational Trauma — the deep psychological and emotional wounds that form when the people and relationships we depended on most were not safe, consistent, or responsive to our needs.

Childhood trauma encompasses the adverse and often overwhelming experiences that occur during formative years — before we have the language, context, or capacity to make sense of what is happening to us. This includes physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual abuse, exposure to violence, neglect, and other experiences that interrupt healthy development and leave lasting imprints on how we see ourselves and the world around us.

Relational trauma speaks to the harm caused by the chronic disruption of emotional, physical, and/or sexual safety within close relationships. For many people, this looks like belonging to a family where patterns of triangulation, enmeshment, control, emotional volatility and unpredictability, or other toxic and dysfunctional behaviors where normalized.

You may find yourself struggling with trust, emotional closeness, or setting limits in relationships. You might notice patterns you can't seem to break — choosing partners or friendships that feel familiar but painful, dimming yourself to keep the peace, or feeling emotionally disconnected even when surrounded by people who love you. You may carry shame or self-doubt that has felt like simply "who you are" for so long that you've stopped questioning where it came from.

It came from somewhere. And it can be worked through.

Our work together is grounded in a deep understanding of how early relational experiences shape the nervous system, attachment patterns, and sense of self. We provide a space that is consistent, attuned, and genuinely safe — often the very things that were missing.

FAQs

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 sliding scale (fee based on income) and a few reduced rate slots upon availability.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    My style is authentic, warm, and practical.

  • 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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