Discovery Counseling and Assessment Center

Discovery Counseling is thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Krystle Stricklin! Krystle is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who obtained her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California. She practices at our Sharpsburg location, providing psychotherapy to children, adolescents, adults, and families dealing with a host of life issues including depression, anger management, ADHD, anxiety, parenting issues, psychotic disorders, mood ...disorders, PTSD, and trauma recovery. Krystle believes that the counseling process is a collaborative journey and she aims to create a comfortable and supportive environment of trust where she and her clients can explore emotional needs and overcome barriers that limit full potential. She works together with her clients to discover their hidden resources and strengths, to bring new insights, and improved quality of life. She combines several therapeutic orientations to meet the needs of her clients including Person-Centered, Cognitive-Behavioral, Solution-Focused, Motivational Interviewing, and Mindfulness Therapies. You can read more about Krystle on our website at https://www.discoverycounselingllc.com/. Please join us in welcoming Krystle to the DCAC team!

Please join us in welcoming our newest clinician, Austin Haedicke, to the Discovery Counseling team! Austin is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Nutrition Coach. He received his Master's Degree in psychology from the University of West Georgia, where he was awarded the Mike Aaron Scholarship for his contributions to and involvement in humanistic psychology, and he has been mentored extensively in Person-Centered and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies. He specializes... in Play Therapy for young children in the treatment of physical and sexual abuse and other trauma, as well as adolescent personality disorders, self-harm, and suicide. Austin believes that the psychotherapy process is fundamentally relational, as it moves a person towards improving interpersonal relationships, emotional regulation and expression, distress tolerance, and self-efficacy. In essence, understanding where you've been, what you've seen, and moving towards where you want to go and who you want to become. He has special interests in the areas of early childhood trauma, human trafficking, nutritional interventions for mental health, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Play Therapy, and Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT). You can read more about Austin on our website at https://www.discoverycounselingllc.com/. See more

Discovery Counseling is thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Kelly Pinnick! Kelly is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing at our Sharpsburg location, serving adolescents, adults, groups, and couples. Kelly specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) receiving her training from Behavioral Tech, which was developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD; as well as from the Portland DBT Institute with Linda A. Dimeff, PhD, and Andrew White, PhD. She also has sp...ecialized training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) developed by Susan M. Johnson, EdD. To date, she is the only clinician south of the perimeter (I-285) in the state of Georgia that offers a DBT program. All four components of DBT are provided: Individual DBT sessions, DBT skills groups, phone coaching, and clinician consultation team. You can read more about Kelly on our website at https://www.discoverycounselingllc.com/. Please join us in giving her a warm welcome to the DCAC team! See more

Discovery Counseling is thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Terilynn Culverhouse! Terilynn is a Licensed Professional Counselor who received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Georgia Southern University, and a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Argosy University in Atlanta. She works with children, adults, groups, and families; and specializes in depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, ADHD, family conflict, self-esteem, and trauma. Her counseling style is very collaborative; she is here to help her clients navigate the areas with which they are struggling at the moment. You can read more about Terilynn on our website at discoverycounselingllc.com. Please join us in welcoming her to the DCAC team!

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Discovery’s Julie Evans, an LPC specializing in trauma, wrote this thoughtful and informative piece for R A D Advocates - with an appearance by Dr. Grant. One of Julie and Dr. Grants’ specialties is Reactive Attachment Disorder, which can often go misdiagnosed. If you are a parent dealing with the heaviness of RAD, know that there is help and hope.

Janet, Sherri, and Elsa are wrapping up a week of intensive Theraplay training in Birmingham. One of our core values at Discovery is learning and growing as clinicians - better equipping ourselves to meet the needs in our community. We are so proud of these amazing ladies who made a huge investment in themselves and their clients this week! Theraplay is a dyadic child and family therapy that has been recognized by the Association of Play Therapy as one of seven seminal psych...otherapies for children. Developed over 50 years ago, and practiced around the world, Theraplay was developed to support healthy child/caregiver attachment. Strong attachment between the child and the important adults in their life is the basis of lifelong good mental health as well as the mainstay of resilience in the face of adversity. Modern brain research and the field of neuroscience have shown that attachment is the way in which children come to understand, trust and thrive in their world. You can read more about Theraplay at theraplay.org. See more

Discovery counseling is thrilled to introduce the newest member of our team, Charlotte Hurt! Charlotte is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker whose passion is to help individuals and families find wholeness. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and families dealing with traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, ADHD, and marital issues. Charlotte specializes in children 0 to 5 years of age, for whom she offers child-parent psychotherapy an evidence-based trauma focused therapy. She has a manifold approach, using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR). You can read more about Charlotte on our website at http://www.discoverycounselingllc.com. Please join in welcoming Charlotte to the team!