My name is Lauren Brainard, I am an Associate Level Marriage and Family Therapist, LAMFT under the clinical supervision of Tundi Jones, LPC, CPCS. I graduated from Mercer University School of Medicine Marriage and Family Program in 2024. I also hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Services Counseling Psychology from Gordon State College.

I have a background in Emergency Medicine working as an AEMT and as a Registered Behavioral Therapist for children with Autism, Downs Syndrome, and other cognitive disabilities before completing my master’s program.

I am dedicated to helping children overcome developmental and emotional obstacles and delays and help heal childhood trauma. Utilizing play and interactive therapy, I engage children in their growth and healing process, while also emphasizing the importance of family involvement.

In my role as a reunification counselor, I specialize in helping families reconnect after periods of separation, regardless of whether there is an active court case or a court order. My mission is to facilitate healing and restore relationships while equipping families with the essential tools for lasting connections.

I offer dedicated support to parents navigating co-parenting outside of intact family structures. I believe that effective co-parenting is crucial for children’s well-being, and I strive to help parents communicate effectively and work together harmoniously.

I am passionate about fostering meaningful relationships within ALL families, enhancing communication, and resolving conflicts that may arise in a family.

I am passionate about therapy because I have an enthusiastic drive to help people overcome difficult situations and experiences in life. I believe that everyone has the inherent right to love and be loved; and that everyone is capable of positive change.

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Judy Bruce is passionate about guiding her clients to experience immediate healing, powerful breakthrough, and lasting transformation in their lives. For over 28 years, she has helped numerous men and women experience true emotional and mental freedom. Judy left her thriving practice in Denver, CO to move with family to Georgia in the fall of 2019. She continued her counseling practice, Dr. Judy Bruce, Transformational Counseling in Peachtree City before joining the team at Arise.

Judy specializes in a unique Christian-based energy protocol, Splankna, that does not require clients to rehearse their life narrative in therapy for weeks or months. With Splankna, (named for the Splanchnic nerve that runs through the center of our body), the process of change begins in the first session. God’s Spirit indicates, through the use of muscle testing, the emotional content of the work to be done. After all the emotions around the trauma or wound are cleared in the body, the emotional reactions are exposed, along with the long hidden life strategies. Those ineffective strategies of the enemy are then cleared by a prayer of repentance, and the agreement for the coping behaviors is broken. The prior troubling behaviors then no longer have power. Client after client becomes free to choose life-giving, loving responses to themselves and to others. Free Indeed!

Judy’s combined training in philosophy (MA Philosophy), biblically grounded narrative therapy (MA Biblical Counseling), and language arts (PhD Human Communication) has led her to have great confidence in the effectiveness of Splankna. Her doctoral work included many of the scientific studies that were demonstrating the interconnection of language (thinking) to our body’s experience in the world.

As powerful as biblically based counseling is to guide us into life-affirming behaviors and beliefs, there are times that we just don’t know what needs to change in us. All we know is that we are struggling to be fully present with others and with God; we are doing all we know to obey and to believe and are mystified that we’re angry, hurt, scared, shut-down, just going through a checklist of “good” behaviors. Again, God is very far ahead of us with a great solution! He has wired us up to be led by His Spirit to identify experiences in our lives that we have held onto, stored in our bodies as information we call memories. These memories of trauma (overwhelming experiences we couldn’t release at the time) can be identified with the help of Holy Spirit through a gentle muscle test and cleared and transformed once and for all!

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Hello! My name is Amy DuBose and I am a graduate student at Colorado Christian University, pursuing my Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health. As an intern student actively immersed in rigorous training through a CACREP accredited program, I will be using the skills I have learned and continue to learn in my experience with clients.

Background and Experience:

My bachelor’s degree is in Biblical Counseling, so most of my training and experience have been biblically based. In recent years, I have come to understand more about the science of the brain and how it affects the body and vice versa. As a mom to a child with severe OCD and anxiety caused by PANS/PANDAS, I have a first-hand understanding of working with children who face the unique challenges that come with neuroimmune diagnoses. Having cared for my own son as well as my mother, who has Alzheimer’s disease, I also have a heart for those who are facing caregiver burnout. As I have done (and continue to do) the work to learn how to regulate and co-regulate my emotional responses to help my son, I look forward to helping other parents who struggle with this as well. I also have experience in counseling teen girls as well as women facing crisis pregnancies, and I currently provide online crisis care for a wide variety of acute needs, such as suicide and self-harm. I would define my theoretical approach as Christian Psychology with Cognitive Behavioral leanings. Every modality I use and theory I subscribe to is filtered through the Word of God, but first and foremost, every person who comes into the office to see me will receive the love of Christ and the compassion, attention, and care that every image bearer of God deserves.

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Valerie Jackson is an Associate Professional Counselor whose heart is for people to grow in the knowledge of each aspect of spirit, soul, and body. She is passionate about helping her clients live powerfully in their true identity and purpose.

Utilizing cognitive therapy, Valerie helps her clients recognize and reprogram negative core beliefs that have created distorted thought processes and emotional extremes. She navigates with the client, their story, exploring key components that have impacted them including problematic insecurities, trauma, depression, and anxiety. Together, they address the emotional triggers and process the impact of the emotional and mental handicaps those negative core beliefs have created while moving her clients toward healing and wholeness. The result is emotional, mental, and spiritual alignment and harmony.

Valerie completed her master’s degree in professional counseling at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, and her bachelor’s degree in Christian counseling at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. Through her tenure in college, Valerie learned valuable lessons about putting God first and that doing the hard work is incredibly rewarding.

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Licensed Professional Counselor, Transformation Coach and Business Growth Strategist

Over twenty years in the therapist’s chair have taught Connie that people who are stuck want one thing: To break free and live an empowered, abundant life of freedom and fulfillment. She has leaned into building her spiritual X-Ray Vision to see what her clients can’t – and HEAR what they’re not saying–to create lasting change within them and in every area of their lives and leadership.

As a Coach for the last ten years, she’s equipped and empowered men and women leaders to elicit those powerful changes internally and translate them to breakthrough transformations in their lives and work. What absolutely lights Connie’s fire and the mission she feels called to is guiding mission-driven, heart-centered service-based business owners and leaders to create powerful transformations in their business and in their lives.

In her therapeutic and coaching practices, she’s developed strategies and skills that set you free from old survival patterns of behaving and relating, limiting mindsets, self-sabotage, and dysregulated nervous system function so you evolve from struggling, striving, and stuck to next level success, effectiveness, and enjoyment personally, relationally, professionally, and organizationally.

She uses those inner transformational principles, skills, and tools alongside sound, proven business strategy and leadership and organizational development expertise to help service-based business owners get out of their own way and create profitable, thriving businesses with more freedom and enjoyment that support the life they want.

In Connie’s SOAR Coaching Program and in One-on-One Business Coaching, she works with wellness professionals, holistic practitioners, therapists, and coaches (start up to scaling) who want to increase their revenue, their impact, and their enjoyment in their business and life! ConnieJonesCoach.com

In her ASCEND Coaching Program and in One-on-One Business Coaching, she works with highly successful business owners and leaders (6, 7, 8 figures) in the wellness and service industries who want to grow and scale your business with more freedom, impact, revenue, and enjoyment.

Connie also provides 1:1 Coaching that’s perfect for men and women who want to break through specific roadblocks or access new levels of freedom, success, and enjoyment in your life, relationships, leadership, and/or business. But through it all, Connie goes IN to deal with what’s keeping you where you are, so you can go OUT and expand your income, your impact, your freedom, and your joy in life!

And Schedule A Discovery Coaching Call to discuss your goals and how I can help you achieve them.

It’s time to Experience Breakthrough Transformation and Next Level Success with Connie!

As a gifted intuitive, wise discerner, and dynamic motivator, Connie has helped unlock and unleash the brilliance in heart centered, mission driven, high achieving men and women for over 20 years.

Blending her superpowers as a Therapist, Transformation Coach, and Business Freedom Strategist, she partners with her clients to activate their true essence, God given gifts and purpose so they can embody and express who they were created to be and make the impact in the world in their unique way!

Best-selling Author of Warrior Arise! Live Bravely, Freely, and Authentically YOU, she leads people along the path to break free from struggling, striving, and surviving so they can live and lead bravely, freely, and authentically in the life they were created for.

Coupled with her creative genius and savvy business strategy, Connie’s helped hundreds of men and women by equipping and empowering them to Soar to new horizons in business in life so they can live in victory and abundance!

Close the gap between the reality you’re existing in and the dream in your heart.

Connie holds a B.S. in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Georgia, a M.A. in Sport Management from the University of Georgia, and a M.A. in Professional Counseling from Argosy University.

Her professional experience spans from fitness professional, to sports performance coach, to sales and management executive. She is an innovative, natural leader who is an energetic, driven, and savvy entrepreneur. Connie lives a heart centered, growth minded life, fueled by passion and founded in purpose.

Both a Warrior for people’s hearts and a free-spirited wildflower, her life mission is to reflect the beauty and love of God’s heart to others. Connie loves people, animals, and nature, and loves working out and running. Family and community-focused, she enjoys nothing more than seeing people Thrive in a Life of Freedom and Fullness!

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Tundi is a Therapist, Coach, Mentor, Advocate and Leader in the arena of restoring and building healthy families. She has spent the past twenty plus years working alongside intact families, blended families, single mothers and fathers, grandparents raising grandchildren, and children of all ages to help them navigate through difficult times to find purpose, freedom, fulfillment and connectedness. Tundi’s passion for personal and interpersonal integrity – in combination with her own brokenness and daily need for grace – inspires her to create a counseling context that offers safety and the opportunity to push beyond unhealthy habits and develop long term change. Tundi is deeply committed to each person entrusted to her care, treating each family member with respect and compassion.

Tundi’s training includes: - Family Systems Therapy - Internal Family Systems - Structural Therapy - Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Dialectic Behavior Therapy - Gottman Couples Therapy - Soul Healing Love - Attachment Therapy - Play Therapy - Spiritual Formation - Trauma Informed Therapy

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Erin has experience working with individuals of all ages in both one-on-one and group settings, but she especially enjoys working with adolescents and young adults. Erin enjoys helping her clients navigate difficult emotions, anxieties and fears, and friendship & relationship dynamics while helping equip them with new solutions and ideas to successfully move through this super fun, but often complicated, stage of life.

Her professional interests include spirituality and prayer, stress and anxiety management, identity issues, body image and exercise addiction, self-care, and self-esteem. When working with adolescents and young adults, Erin is passionate about academic concerns, bullying & rejection, peer relations, self-confidence, and difficulty coping with emotions. Erin believes that transformation is possible through open and honest communication paired with a calm environment which is fostered through a warm counselor-client relationship full of trust and genuine care.

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Kelsey is an empathetic therapist who is dedicated to guiding individuals through the journey of healing from eating disorders using a blend of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). She also offers therapeutic meal support and works with dietitians in the community to give full wrap around support.

Kelsey also specializes in couples therapy and is passionate about fostering deeper connection between couples by exploring conflict and intimacy through emotionally focused therapy (EFT). She works to strengthen the couples bond and empower them to create a relationship filled with understanding and growth both together and individually.

With a decade of mental health experience in the areas of depression, anxiety, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Kelsey uses an evidence based, client specific treatment modalities to navigate many of life’s challenges with a sprinkle of humor and a lot of self-love.

Born and raised in Washington State, Kelsey relocated to Georgia four years ago. She graduated with a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University and has worked in the mental health field since 2016.

Together we can rewrite your story!

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Andra is an experienced counselor, life coach, and emotional intelligence specialist with over 15 years of experience. She helps individuals, couples, and families break free from limiting patterns and achieve healing in mind, body, and spirit. Andra combines Biblical inner healing, brain-based tools, and holistic therapies to guide clients through addiction recovery, mental health challenges, personal growth, and relational issues.

Key Areas of Focus: Addiction & Mental Health Recovery: Overcoming substance abuse, anxiety, depression, OCD, and ADHD with a holistic, integrative approach. Emotional Intelligence: Helping clients reframe negative thinking and improve emotional regulation and stress management. Relationship & Family Coaching: Healing relational issues, improving communication, and fostering healthy connections, especially for parents of struggling adolescents or adult children. Personal Development & Transformation: Identifying and overcoming patterns that limit personal and professional growth. Coaching for Young Adults: Helping those struggling to find direction and build responsibility. Andra offers specialized coaching for recovery, marriage, parenting, and personal development, with a focus on lasting transformation from the inside out. She combines her passion for emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being with strategic coaching tools to help clients live purposeful, harmonious lives.

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