Online Therapy

Online Therapy, Teletherapy, Video and Phone Counseling.

I am licensed to offer secure teletherapy also known as online therapy or virtual therapy for clients located in Georgia, Florida or North Carolina. This includes Trauma Informed teletherapy, EMDR online therapy, Career Coaching, and online counseling for anxiety, grief, relationship challenges, and stress management. I also offer in-person sessions in my Atlanta office and you have the option of meeting both in-person and online, based on what we determine is a good fit for you.

I use HIPAA compliant teletherapy software (Zoom, remotEMDR) for easy to use, secure video sessions. This gives you the convenience of doing your online therapy sessions with me on your phone, tablet, laptop or desktop, while keeping your online therapy sessions confidential. Once we’ve met by video or in-person, you also have the convenience of occasional phone sessions.

How Teletherapy Can Help You?

online therapyYour daily schedule and life demands may make it challenging to meet in-person for therapy. Current events or recent changes in your life may have created new stressors which have led to anxiety, grief, feeling overwhelmed, burned out, disrupted sleep, or created relationship challenges with family and friends. Watching or reading the news can also create secondary trauma symptoms..

The good news is that with teletherapy you can continue to move forward with your life and in the process feel better. You can also reduce the toll of current or past distressing or traumatic experiences.

Online sessions save you commute time, allow you to fit sessions into your schedule, and enjoy the comfort of being at home or the location you prefer.

Is Online Therapy Effective?

My clients report positive experiences and results with our online therapy sessions. I’ve done online sessions with clients who I’ve never met in person in my office as well as clients who already had an established relationship in my office. The good news is that new and existing clients report that the sessions help them feel better and they feel connected and supported in our online relationship. They also enjoy the convenience and time saving aspects of online sessions. Research shows that teletherapy is as effective as in-person counseling.

I’m a Board Certified Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH)

When you work with me you can be confident that I follow effective, ethical practices for conducting online therapy. Years before the events of 2020 prompted all of us to move to online therapy, I earned the designation of Board Certified Telemental Health Provider, which was previously called Distance Credentialed Counselor (in 2014-2018). These credentials were received based on several days of training and passing an essay examination in 2014 and again in 2018 demonstrating my knowledge of effective and ethical practices for conducting teletherapy by video, phone and email. I have maintained this telemental credential through annual continuing education courses on telemental health practices.

In 2020, I also completed many hours of training to learn safe, effective and ethical practices for conducting EMDR online therapy and trauma informed counseling online. Since then, I have completed hundreds of online EMDR sessions, and I have seen how EMDR is also very effective online.

Telehealth for Clients in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina

As a LPC in GA and a LCMHC in North Carolina, I am licensed to provide online therapy to clients who are physically located in Georgia or North Carolina at the time of our sessions.  I am also a Florida Telehealth Provider. I have met the requirements to be an out-of-state telehealth provider for clients who are located in Florida during our sessions.  I am physically located in Atlanta and conduct in-person sessions in my Atlanta office.

Would you like to do online therapy, but are wondering how to have privacy when at home or at work?

teletherapy atlantaI can provide you with tips and suggestions for how to create a private, therapeutic safe for your video counseling sessions. It’s also okay if you need to stop in the middle of your session to respond to someone. It happens and that’s okay. Usually it just takes just a few minutes for a client to attend to someone, and then they’re back. I’ll wait and you can come back to the session.

Can you do EMDR Online?

Yes!  I’ve done hundreds of  effective EMDR sessions online.  I use a HIPAA compliant online EMDR platform that allows you to see a bilateral image and hear bilateral music or tones, while also staying connected to me. To learn more about online EMDR, please see the EMDR Online page of my website.

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