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As a woman who once struggled to balance authenticity with the pressure to please others, I know firsthand the journey of building...
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As a woman who once struggled to balance authenticity with the pressure to please others, I know firsthand the journey of building confidence and self-esteem. I hope to walk alongside you as you step boldly into the best version of yourself.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 8 years of experience supporting individuals through anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. I work with adults facing stress, relationship concerns, and self-esteem challenges, helping them find balance and resilience. My goal is to provide a safe, compassionate space where you feel understood, supported, and empowered to grow in your personal journey.
I earned my Master’s in Social Work from Valdosta State University. I use a person-centered approach informed by cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and trauma-informed practices. I focus on helping you challenge negative patterns, build confidence, and strengthen emotional well-being.
I believe every client deserves a supportive environment where their story is heard and healing is possible. I will work with you to build lasting resilience and self-love. I am committed to walking alongside you as you move toward greater fulfillment, confidence, and emotional strength.
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As a mother of teenagers and a 20 year resident of the Johns Creek/Duluth community, I know that expectations for families around ...
As a mother of teenagers and a 20 year resident of the Johns Creek/Duluth community, I know that expectations for families around here are high and wanting our children to be successful is important but can often lead to high levels of anxiety, depression and burnout both for the kids and for the parents.
Lisa Kelley is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience helping families in the Duluth/Johns Creek/Suwanee communities. Since completing her graduate degree, she has worked with a variety of clients in many different settings including inpatient, residential, outpatient, and home-based care. These varied work experiences have given her the opportunity to become proficient in completing biopsychosocial assessments, a variety of therapeutic interventions, parenting skills education, and community resource referrals. Lisa specializes in working with adolescents, adults, and their families facing issues such as depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and many other stressors that come along with the various life stages families encounter.
Lisa completed her Master of Social Work (MSW) at Ohio State University in 2000 and holds a state of Georgia clinical license (LCSW). During her course of study, she completed two clinical practicums to enhance her assessment and diagnostic skills. Her theoretical approach is based on a combination of family systems theory, existential therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy. The most central ideas in this work are that families are a system made up of individual parts. If one part of the system is not functioning properly, then the entire system is affected. This can show itself in a variety of ways: a child that is acting out, an adolescent who is taking unusual risks, or a parent disengaging with the rest of the family. As the therapist, she sees her role as a collaborative one to assist the family system return to its functioning state. This can be accomplished by working with the entire family or assisting the family in rearranging their system to accommodate for changes (death of a family member, divorce, etc.). Lisa also sees therapy as an educational process. She often employs cognitive behavioral techniques along with existential therapy techniques when working with family systems. With adolescents and parents, these techniques include identifying unhealthy, negative beliefs and behaviors and replacing them with healthy, positive ones. It’s based on the idea that your own thoughts, not other people/situations, determine how you behave and cope. This work also involves increasing mindful awareness of thoughts that are driving unhealthy or unhelpful behaviors/feelings and looking for potential meaning in the difficult times all humans experience.
Lisa was raised in nearby Asheville, NC, and has been living and working in the Suwanee, GA area since 2001. She is an active member of this community and feels it is a wonderful place to live. Lisa enjoys spending time with her family, playing tennis, and volunteering with Adopt A Golden Atlanta. Her goal is to create a practice where she can do the job she loves and still have the flexibility to stay involved with her children and their activities. Over the years, she has found that many families are experiencing the same life-stage struggles she finds herself in every day and works hard to create a therapeutic environment that is casual, comfortable, and empathetic for all family members. She would welcome the opportunity to share this unique therapeutic setting with you and be of help to you and your family.
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Grief and loss counseling helps people grieve difficult losses including the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the end of a relationship. It helps people navigate their grief process and eventually accept, understand, and move forward from their loss. Thriveworks grief therapists in Cumming, GA have specific experience, training, and skills that enable them to best support grieving individuals.
Grief and loss counseling isn’t one-size-fits-all, but it involves sharing about your loss and then working with your counselor to acknowledge and accept your new reality in its wake. Your provider at Thriveworks in Cumming, GA will design your treatment plan around your unique needs and goals for therapy, applying the counseling techniques that best support them.
If you have recently experienced an event like the death of a loved one, a breakup or divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life change, then you may want to seek grief and loss counseling. Grief can be caused by many experiences and events, so if you feel that you are having trouble moving on from a certain event or find that it is still impacting your life and functioning, grief and loss counseling can help you process it more effectively so that you can move on and once again find fulfillment and satisfaction in your life.
There are many counseling theories for treating grief, one of the most frequently used being the dual process model of grief which helps people acknowledge who or what they’ve lost through rumination while also adjusting to the new roles and identities that this loss has now placed on them. There are also many commonly used therapy approaches used in grief and loss counseling, including Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and traumatic grief therapy.
Grief & loss counseling at Thriveworks is conducted both in person and online by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
For many, grief and loss counseling lasts for about 6 months. For others, it may last shorter or longer, depending on the severity of their loss and their grief.
The counselors of Thriveworks Cumming, GA in Forsyth County have walked the difficult journey from bereavement to a bright future with many clients. Our grief counselors do not offer any quick-fixes or easy solutions, but instead, they offer compassionate and professional care that has helped their clients process grief’s complicated feelings, take care of their mental health needs, and re-established a new, fulfilling life.
If you are grieving a loss, consider working with one of our grief counselors. You can call today to schedule an appointment, or simply book online to get started.
If you have recently lost someone or something you hold dear, you may be feeling:
Many people can benefit from these varied and complex feelings with a professional’s compassionate care. Grief counseling at Thriveworks Cumming in Forsyth County has helped many people recover from the pain and resume everyday life after bereavement.
The grief therapists at Thriveworks Cumming in Forsyth County individualize their treatment for each client. No one experiences loss in the same way, and each loss is unique. In general, however, grief counseling involves two parts.
But many clients are relieved that they had a caring and experienced Thriveworks counselor walk with them through one of life’s toughest trials.
Would you like compassionate support as you mourn a loss? Grief counseling at Thriveworks Cumming has appointments available, and our kind therapists are ready to help.
Do not face your grief alone. Call today to begin grief counseling or schedule online.
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Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Cumming is located near Castleberry Road and Bethelview Rd, off GA-400. It is a short distance from Cumming Twin Lakes and near the Big Creek Greenway.
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