EAC’s waiting room in Oakhurst, Decatur.
How We Can Help
Do you constantly feel overwhelmed by your emotions? Are you ready to finally experience peace from your past? Are you looking to share your story and be met with compassion?
If you are ready to create a more loving relationship with yourself and make concrete changes in your life, we would love to work with you. Through therapy at East Atlanta Counseling Services, you can expect to have healthier relationships with yourself and others, and to find relief from symptoms of anxiety, depression, emotion dysregulation and trauma.
We believe that every person has the ability to heal. We would be honored to work alongside you in your healing process.
“But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.”
Methodologies
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Dialectical means that life isn’t always black and white. More often, we find wisdom is somewhere in the middle — somewhere in the gray between two extremes. DBT teaches skills to concretely change behaviors and learn to cope with out of control emotions. It also helps us create balance so we can see ourselves not as perfect or as failures; we learn to accept our imperfections and find we are “good enough.”
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR is a type of therapy that processes traumatic memories. When a traumatic event happens to a person, their brains and bodies change physiologically. These changes then cause the person to feel constantly on high alert to avoid reminders of the painful event, and often they re-experience the event as if it just happened. EMDR allows us to heal and put the past where it belongs — in the past.
History & Space
Since 2018, East Atlanta Counseling has been a beacon of hope and healing in Decatur and the greater Atlanta area. This dedicated mental health private group practice offers a compassionate and professional environment for all ages 4 and up. Our team specializes in evidence-based therapy services to address and heal a wide range of mental health challenges, including depression, anxiety, and trauma.
Our practice has a chill, inclusive, progressive vibe with lots of character, just like the Eastside of Atlanta. And kind of like the people we find ourselves drawn to work with.
Our mission is to create a safe space for our clients to look honestly and compassionately at themselves to understand why they do the things they do — then make the necessary changes so they can have the life they truly want.
We value the therapeutic relationship as the true change agent, so we believe connecting with your therapist is vital. Each therapist at EAC brings a unique area of expertise, and all are warm, deeply caring, highly trained, and nonjudgmental. We want to be the type of people who you can tell anything to, trust that we can handle it, and that we know how to support you.
We have locations in serene Oakhurst, Decatur, and Midtown Atlanta.
We would be honored to work with you.
Shelves in Office 203B.
Our team includes EMDR, DBT, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, and trauma-focused clinicians like Cat Moon (owner), Abbie Becker-McVay, Alex Middleton, Austin Hunter, Chris Jones, Davidson Mobley, Elaine Goldstone, Elizabeth Bowen, Houston Stowell, Katie Bale, Joy Cauley, Katie Herzer Kelley West, Laura Tapscott, Megan Pollard, and low cost interns.
