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Drawing from my African American identity and lived experiences, I offer a therapeutic space where your journey is not only unders...
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Drawing from my African American identity and lived experiences, I offer a therapeutic space where your journey is not only understood but genuinely affirmed, allowing us to navigate your path to healing together from a culturally grounded perspective.
I am a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 39 years of experience providing mental health and addiction counseling to children, adolescents, and adults. I specialize in treating depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, adjustment concerns, work- and relationship-related stress, and substance use and behavioral addictions, including gambling, pornography, and video gaming.
I earned my master’s degree in social work from Howard University. My approach to treatment is eclectic and evidence-based, drawing from person-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, and motivational interviewing to support meaningful and lasting change.
I strive to create a warm, supportive, and nonjudgmental environment where clients feel safe, respected, and understood. I work collaboratively with clients to identify goals, build effective coping skills, and foster healing and recovery. I invite you to take the next step and begin your therapeutic journey with me.
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I'm here to help you experience the uncomfortable and move towards your values. If you're ready, my door is always open....
I'm here to help you experience the uncomfortable and move towards your values. If you're ready, my door is always open.
I am a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor in Georgia with 2 years of experience. My background includes working in both college settings and private practice with diverse clients focusing on grief, loss, depression, anxiety, trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sexual identity, family issues, domestic violence, and gender identity. I work with clients 18 and older to create a safe and supportive environment where they can process emotions, gain clarity, and move toward their personal goals.
I earned my Master’s in Counseling Education from Georgia Southern University and am a National Certified Counselor. I use acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients explore values, face uncomfortable feelings, and build meaningful lives.
I believe every person can live a fulfilling life, and I am here to help you find the strength and resources within yourself. You deserve compassion, support, and the chance to be heard. I welcome clients from all identities and backgrounds, and I look forward to helping you take the next step in your journey.
I bring a compassionate, trauma-informed approach that honors each person’s lived experience while supporting meaningful and susta...
I bring a compassionate, trauma-informed approach that honors each person’s lived experience while supporting meaningful and sustainable healing.
I am a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) with 14 years of experience providing care across inpatient, outpatient, and community mental health settings. I work primarily with adults experiencing depression, anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, and life transitions who are seeking clarity, stability, and emotional relief. My goal is to help clients feel heard, supported, and empowered throughout their mental health journey.
I earned my Master of Science in nursing from Herzing University. My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and trauma-informed, combining evidence-based medication management with thoughtful education and supportive guidance. I emphasize insight-building, emotional regulation, and individualized treatment planning.
You do not have to navigate this process alone. Whether you are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or ready for change, I strive to meet you where you are and provide care rooted in respect, empathy, and clinical expertise. I welcome the opportunity to support you as you take the next step toward healing and improved well-being.
As a clinician with 22 years of experience in the mental health field, I understand the unique issues of clients with different pe...
As a clinician with 22 years of experience in the mental health field, I understand the unique issues of clients with different personal, ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds.
Catherine Roberts is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 22 years of experience in the mental health field. She understands the unique issues of clients with different personal, ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds.
Catherine enjoys working with clients who are experiencing self-identity, interpersonal relational issues that affect their job and family dynamics. This is her ideal type of client to work with because there is a lot of self-exploration the client will need to work on first. Some of the issues that will come up are self-loathing, lack of esteem, shame, and poor self-image. As a clinician, Catherine provides them support and total acceptance. When the client can begin to embrace and accept who they are without judgment, they can begin to work on how they relate to other people in all areas of their life. This can be done slowly and one step at a time. The pace is usually set by the client and how they progress along in treatment as they embrace each stage of their new self.
Catherine began her career in the mental health field as a therapist in an inpatient facility, responsible for the patient's ongoing clinical progress while at the hospital. Her patients varied in ages from 10 to 12-year-old children, to 13 to 17-year-old adolescents, to 18 to 55-year-old adults, and seniors who were in crisis. She worked with patients who were diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Anxiety, Major Depression, Obsessive Impulsive Disorder, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Mood Disorder, Alcohol/Drug Dependency, Conduct Disorder, and Sleep disorder, just to name a few.
Catherine really enjoys getting to know people while working with them on their unique concerns. She offers a very supportive and client-centered environment to therapy, and she loves helping clients move toward their goals by being a partner in their journey towards a renewed self and clinically appropriate treatment. She enjoys working with clients and assigning them research-based homework activities to help them work independently on areas of concerns outside of the sessions. Her areas of specialty include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), mindfulness, motivational interviewing, interpersonal therapy, and other researched based therapeutic approaches that are appropriate to treatment.
As a woman of color who has struggled with ADHD her entire life, I understand how life changing getting the help we need to change...
As a woman of color who has struggled with ADHD her entire life, I understand how life changing getting the help we need to change our life can be, and I would love to help you on your journey back to yourself.
Hi, I’m Tanya Lorenzi, a Licensed Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience, licensed in both Georgia and South Carolina. I specialize in working with women navigating ADHD, trauma, and relationship challenges. Many of my clients come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or like they’ve lost a sense of who they are. My work focuses on helping them reconnect with themselves, build emotional clarity, and create meaningful, lasting change so they can feel grounded, confident, and like themselves again.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and trauma-informed. I integrate evidence-based methods like EMDR alongside practical tools to help clients process painful experiences, regulate emotions, and move forward with greater clarity. Clients can expect a supportive space that balances depth, structure, and compassion.
I believe therapy should feel like a place where you can exhale — where you feel understood, supported, and empowered to grow. If you’re ready to reconnect with yourself and create meaningful change, I’d be honored to walk alongside you in that process.
You deserve dedicated time with a mental health professional — it can be life-changing.
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LGBTQIA+ counseling is a type of queer affirmative counseling dedicated to assisting individuals and couples in navigating the intricate intersections of their sexual orientation, gender identity, and mental health, with a primary goal of fostering well-being, self-acceptance, and affirming a client’s life experiences as a queer individual. Although not all LGBTQ+ individuals seek specialized counseling, a substantial number discover vital support and empathy within these inclusive and affirming therapeutic settings.
Thriveworks LGBTQ+ counseling in Woodstock, GA typically begins with an initial assessment to understand your specific needs. LGBTQ+ counselors aim to create a safe, inclusive, and affirming environment for anyone within the LGBTQ+ community by encouraging self-acceptance and offering an understanding of your identity and experiences. LGBTQ+ therapy addresses issues like coming out, discrimination, mental health challenges, and gender transition, and provides support for LGBTQ+ relationships.
LGBTQ+ counseling is incredibly important because it can help queer individuals accept their identity, learn self-love, and give them important tools for facing the challenges of being a queer person in today’s society, among many other benefits. LGBTQ+-affirming therapists can understand the unique perspective and experiences of queer individuals as they help them process past trauma, address family conflicts, treat issues with anxiety, and more.
Thriveworks LGBTQ+ counseling in Woodstock, GA is conducted both in person and online by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
The number of sessions for LGBTQ+ counseling depends on the specific needs and goals of the individual. It could encompass a relatively limited series of sessions or extend into a longer counseling plan. The precise quantity and duration of sessions typically emerge through collaborative discussion with the counselor, taking into account the client’s progress and their therapeutic objectives.
While many in the LGBTQ community are experiencing current developments for their legal equality and cultural acceptance, many who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning recognize that there is still much work to be done. Indeed, human rights successes for marriage equality and the increasing number of cultural voices using their stage to promote inclusion are some of the underscores. Conversely, the lowlights are that sidelining, and prejudice are often ordinary events for those within the LGBTQ community. Truly, these types of inequality take a serious toll. On the whole, the LGBTQ population suffers from greater levels of anxiety, addiction, and depression than other populaces.
Without a doubt, living one’s truth is an introductory law of mental health. Certainly, individuals need to feel the liberty to be themselves. Likewise, this begins with self-acceptance. Thriveworks Woodstock recognizes that mental health professionals have not continually offered a place where those in the LGBTQ community can feel self-acceptance. The American Psychological Association (APA) only ceased characterizing homosexuality as an illness in 1973, and that chronicle of stigmatization has eclipsed mental health care. Furthermore, the LGBTQ community has repeatedly not gotten the mental health care it merits, and therefore, habitually confronts a “dual stigma.” Subsequently, the LGBTQ community suffers from increased percentages of mental disorders with additional obstacles in obtaining compassionate mental health care.
Without any reservations, the counselors, life coaches, and therapists who work at Thriveworks Woodstock recognize the strength of living in one’s confidence and the power of self-acceptance. Our trained staff is dedicated to delivering holistic care to our patients. In detail, we strive to assist our clients, who are participants of the LGBTQ community, with the knowledgeable and delicate care that they deserve.
To say the least, the complete being of people’s lives matters. Ones’ emotions, physicality, spirituality, and sexuality all add to what makes up a whole individual. No one should have to divide their social life from their sexuality or their intellect from their psychology. However, this is frequently what those individuals who distinguish themselves as LGBTQ are asked to do. They handle exclusive and complicated challenges, and therapists must extend individualized care while also being cognizant of these specific complexities. Without a doubt, a person’s sexuality performs an essential role in the development of identity.
Excellent therapy offers personalized care. Every person’s capabilities are distinctive and dissimilar from any others. What you have gone through in life is unique and no one else accepts the challenges that you encounter. Additionally, no one else has the breaks you have and no one else has survived the encounters that you have survived. When the therapists at Thriveworks Woodstock recommend all-encompassing and affirmative counseling, it also means that they are all-encompassing and agreeing towards your exclusive story. Our psychotherapy experts work relentlessly to earn each client’s confidence, as confidence and trust is the foundation of any therapeutic relationship. As the relationship between each counselor and each client progresses, clients regularly feel secure going deeper and often experience more healing. To go deeper, therapists may raise questions such as…
The truism of therapy is of a person lounging on a sofa, speaking about doom and gloom. Undoubtedly, a considerable amount of therapy focuses upon problems, but excellent therapy also concentrates people’s interest in their dreams. Skillful counselors help their clients reach key professional and personal goals. Trained counselors focus upon health and healing—whatever that may look like within a person’s life. For some, it may look like chasing a romantic relationship or meeting that significant other. For others, it may look like coming out to friends and family with a strategy for security as well. All in all, clients get to set the itinerary for therapy.
When the therapy room is an unrestricted, judgement free zone, patients often feel safe enough to discover without feeling embarrassed or humiliated. Clients often feel secure speaking easily of their past trauma as well as their imminent hopes. Topics that are generally tackled in LGBTQ therapy include:
What is occurring in your life right now? What are the questions? Maybe you are suffering from sidelining or unfairness. If so, the staff at Thriveworks Woodstock wants you to know that we are profoundly unhappy you are experiencing this stigmatization. Please know that you are worthy of fitting in and worthy of respect. Maybe you are concentrating upon your future and are ready for your next achievement. If so, the staff at Thriveworks Woodstock wants you to know that you are valuable and can reach your dreams. Whatever your voyage is, we are grateful to be along with you for the trek.
When you contact Thriveworks Woodstock, know that you may be convening with your therapist the following day. We accept many forms of insurance, and we offer evening and weekend sessions. Nevertheless, we do not keep a waitlist so you will never be put on one. Our wish is that our clients obtain the care they deserve when they need it. Call Thriveworks Woodstock today.
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Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Woodstock is located at 3221 S Cherokee Ln. You can find us in the Weatherstone Office Park, conveniently situated off S Cherokee Ln with easy access from Highway 92. Our office is directly across from ExtraSpace Storage, just past the shopping center holding the Invisible Fence dealer.
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