Kalpana Murthy is a former corporate marketing professional turned Licensed Counselor, Certified EMDR psychotherapist, and workshop presenter. When working with individual clients or conducting workshops for companies or professional groups, she combines her business skills as a problem-solver and change agent with her training and experience in psychology and counseling. She helps business professionals identify and resolve how their past is unconsciously coming into play in their present and causing them to feel stuck or repeat situations in their career or personal life. Ultimately, she helps her clients find meaning in these experiences and have deeper connections with themselves, so they can have more genuine connections with others at work and in their personal life.

Prior to becoming a counselor, her career included almost 20 years in the fields of marketing and management. She has expertise in the areas of marketing communications, client relationships, team leadership, and improving the operating efficiency of professional service firms. She has held VP and Director level marketing positions, while leading and managing the strategic marketing programs for many national consumer brands working on both the client side and the consulting firm side. Her brand experience includes: Anheuser-Busch theme parks, BellSouth wireless and consumer services, Coca-Cola new products, Energizer batteries, General Mills food products, Kraft new products, Household Finance Corporation loan products, and Simmons bedding. In addition, she has provided strategic business writing services for many entrepreneurs offering professional services in a range of industries. Her marketing agency experience includes DDB Needham/Chicago, Tucker Wayne/Atlanta, and West Wayne/Atlanta.

As a therapist, she specializes in helping business professionals quickly overcome the lasting negative effects that stressful life experiences have on how they think, feel and behave. She has experience helping clients with anxiety, self-doubt, procrastination, fear of public speaking, career issues, relationship issues, childhood abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. Kalpana has worked as a counselor at The Anxiety & Stress Management Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology Counseling Center, Duke University MBA Career Management Center, Emory University MBA Career Management Center and now in her own practice in Atlanta.

She currently serves as a career coach for Duke University Executive MBA students and Duke University MBA Alumni. In addition, she works as a Senior Career Management Consultant at Right Management where she helps experienced managers and executives navigate all aspects of career transition and job search. Her career coaching services include: gaining clarity on career interests, self-marketing message strategy, resume writing, interviewing skills, networking skills, offer negotiation, and interpretation of career assessments. She is certified to administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the Strong Interest Inventory, and the Birkman First Look.

Kalpana earned an MBA from Duke University, a Masters of Science in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University, and a BA from Vanderbilt University. She has specialized training in trauma therapy and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Brainspotting, and Imaginal Nurturing. EMDR and Brainspotting are approaches to psychotherapy and performance enhancement based on the science of how the brain stores and processes information related to upsetting life experiences including criticism, rejection, humiliation, job loss, relationship endings, emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse and major traumatic events. Imaginal Nurturing is a psychotherapy approach that helps clients connect to and heal younger ego states as a route to developing a more secure sense of self as an adult.

Kalpana is a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor, a National Certified Counselor, and a Certified EMDR Therapist trained through The EMDR Institute and certified by the EMDR International Association.