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Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, MS, LPC

Drew Cleary is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Roswell who works with preteens, teens and adults. He helps clients with anxiety, depression, ADHD, questions of identity, low self-esteem and the stress that comes with big life transitions, and he welcomes LGBTQ+ clients. For younger clients he also works with parents, giving them practical ways to support their child at home. His approach is evidence-based and tailored to each person, drawing on CBT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness and family systems ideas, with Christian counseling available for those who want it. He is taking new clients, offers flexible scheduling for busy families, and sees people in person in Roswell and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LMSW

Wendy Yajna Brown is a licensed master social worker in Marietta with six years in practice. She works with adults, including older adults, who are dealing with depression, grief, anxiety, trauma and exhaustion, often after long stretches of stress, loss, displacement or illness. Many of her clients live with chronic pain or chronic illness, and some are carrying the weight of cultural upheaval. Her therapy is practical and gentle, with close attention to the mind and body, and may include behavioral coaching, mindfulness, nervous-system regulation and body awareness practices. She draws on ACT, CBT, DBT, compassion-focused work, IFS and somatic methods, and offers sessions in person in Marietta and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Valarie Smith is a licensed clinical social worker in Decatur with 14 years in practice. She works with adults and older adults who want to understand themselves and their relationships more deeply, notice the patterns that keep repeating in their lives, and handle change with more ease. She helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions, self-esteem, stress, substance use and LGBTQ+ concerns. Her work explores how past experiences and unconscious thoughts shape the present, using psychodynamic, relational, attachment-based, CBT and DBT approaches tailored to each person. She describes herself as kind, genuine and a little offbeat. She sees clients in person in Decatur and online.

Counselor, MA, APC, NCC

Katherine Yates is an Associate Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor in Roswell. She works with children, teens, adults, couples and families on anxiety, stress, perfectionism, OCD, low mood, body image and eating concerns, trauma, life transitions, faith questions and relationship problems. Her approach is holistic, attending to body, mind and spirit, and blends skills-based tools with space to process one's story. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, a trauma-focused method for reprocessing painful memories, and also uses CBT, DBT, attachment-based and Christian counseling. She offers in-person sessions in Roswell and telehealth across Georgia.

Family Therapist, MEd, MA, LMFT

Michelle Tirella Ventura is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Newton with eight years in practice. She works with adults, older adults and couples, including clients on the autism spectrum, on anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, ADHD, life transitions and relationship concerns. With couples she uses Emotion Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method to help partners communicate better and work through conflict, infidelity, parenting stress and change. Her style is warm and transparent, and depending on the client she may add mindfulness and expressive arts to more traditional methods. She welcomes people of all cultures and identities, and co-hosts a podcast called Licensed to Listen. She sees clients in person in Newton and online.

Counselor, LMHC

Allison Reese is a licensed mental health counselor in Wellesley who works with young children, teens, adults and families. A former early intervention clinician, she has particular experience with young children and their parents, and she also helps with anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief, life transitions, postpartum concerns and feeling stuck as a parent, partner or individual. She offers an affirming space for LGBTQIA+ clients, informed by her own lived experience. Her approach is warm and collaborative, blending CBT, trauma-informed care, Internal Family Systems, expressive arts and play therapy, with room for humor and creativity. She sees clients in person in Wellesley and online.

Counselor, MA, LMHC

Mary Kriger is a licensed mental health counselor based in Quincy with 16 years in practice. She works with adults who are already self-aware and want to go deeper, including people making sense of a spiritual awakening or a plant medicine journey, or exploring practices like tarot that they fear other therapists might dismiss. She also supports healers and helpers who feel burned out, along with clients facing anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, low self-esteem and LGBTQ+ issues. Her integrative, compassionate approach draws on Internal Family Systems, relational, humanistic and transpersonal therapy, with attention to how larger systems affect each person, and she offers ketamine-assisted work. She sees clients online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MFA, LICSW

Sarah Stone is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Boston. She often works with adults who look capable from the outside yet feel anxious, unsure of themselves or worn down by perfectionism and the habit of keeping others happy. Her focus areas include anxiety, trauma, low self-esteem, people-pleasing, OCD and substance use, and she also works with women's issues, family conflict and writers and other creative artists. Her style is integrative and experiential, drawing on Internal Family Systems, somatic work, Deep Brain Reorienting and attachment-based, psychodynamic methods, with attention to feelings and body responses in the moment. She sees adults and older adults in person in Boston and online.

Counselor, MEd, LCPC, LPC, C-IAYT

Tessa Mandala is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Phoenix with 11 years in practice. She is also licensed as an LCPC in Illinois, holds a Florida telehealth license, and is a certified yoga therapist. She has worked in substance use treatment from inpatient to outpatient care, and she helps adults with addiction and recovery, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, life transitions and stress, with a welcoming approach for LGBTQIA+ clients. Seeing mind, body and spirit as connected, she blends talk therapy with mindfulness, somatic practice and bodywork, along with CBT, attachment-based work and motivational interviewing. She sees clients in person in Phoenix and online, and offers a free 15-minute consultation.