Barbara has been in private clinical practice for over 20 years working with families and couples. She believes that profound change occurs through group work and she has a passion for creating safe space for connections and growth. Through developing and facilitating family programs in residential treatment facilities, she has witnessed the power of couples and families trudging through pain together and rising into healing and strength. Barbara has worked within the whole continuum of care from IOP, PHP, Residential, and Sober living, starting as unit secretary, case manager, program development, owner/director, consulting, teaching at University, and offering professional development.

After graduating Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in mental health and human services, Barbara attended Smith College School for Social Work where she earned a Master’s Degree in psychodynamically focused clinical social work. She has since trained in multiple therapeutic modalities that address healing the mind, body and spirit. Some of these modalities include Developmental and Attachment theory, Experiential Group Work, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Advanced Schema Focused Therapy, Imago Therapy, Gottman Relationship Therapy, Relational Life Therapy, Shame Resilience Work of Brene Brown- the Daring Way, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Poly-vegal Theory, Yoga Nidra meditation, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Somatic Experiencing and other trauma informed and integrative practices.

Every model she trains in she has applied in her own personal journey, she is in this with you.

Lori Albert-Walker has more than 30 years of experience working with adolescents, young adults, and adults. Lori’s keen intuition and ability to understand the individual as well as family dynamics enable her to guide individuals and families through the challenges they face in their life stages.

Lori has helped develop, coordinate, and implement programs for children, adolescents, young adults and other adults suffering from addiction, eating disorder as a dual diagnosis, and psychiatric issues at both inpatient and outpatient behavioral health facilities in Atlanta and Florida. She has a passion for helping families understand the process of change related to navigating life stages, especially when complicated by addiction and other mental health issues.

Lori is in private practice providing individual, couples, and family therapy and leading support groups for families and individuals. In addition to addiction, she works with those struggling with depression, anxiety, social anxiety, anger, trauma and co-dependency.

Lori has trained in several therapeutic modalities including but not limited to: Brainspotting, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Gottman, Relational Recovery and experiential. She has had extensive experience facilitating long-term continuing care groups for recovering professionals who have suffered from both substance use and psychiatric illness. She also has been a part of creating and facilitating multifamily groups and communities.

Lori has great passion for young adults and their families who may be impacted by substance use or other psychiatric illnesses.

She is a nationally recognized presenter on treatment for addiction, eating disorders, mood disorders and psychosis related to all populations.

Lori received a master’s degree in social work from Florida State University where she worked with Vietnam Veterans and their families.

Lori is also a singer-song writer who continues to connect with others through performing music she writes and of those writers she admires.

For over twenty-five years Deborah has had the honor of working with individuals, couples, and families recovering from the throes of eating disorders, addictions, and traumas, along with daily but unrelenting stressors. She has helped patients along all levels of care including outpatient, partial, residential and inpatient treatment. What Deborah has experienced and come to believe is that the resiliency of the spirit is amazing when people focus their faith and make wellness, healing and relationship-health their top priority.

Several years ago, Deborah was asked to facilitate Pre-marriage preparation workshops for soon to be married couples in addition to writing reports related to broken couples in often painful stages of annulment. She saw a tremendous difference in couples who gave serious time, attention, and effort to work on building their marriage before it starts. It was then that Deborah decided to devote a good portion of her practice to helping couples ready and enrich their relationship along all stages of their development by taking deeper dives directed at addressing the challenging areas that may later make them vulnerable to gaping wounds, chronic discontent, and potentially devastating divorces.

Deborah is invested in helping individuals and couples navigate the challenges and milestones that surface in serious dating, pre-engagement, engagement, and newly married relationships. She is a certified facilitator for several evidence-based relationship-building inventory programs that help to reduce vulnerability of failed relationships by 31%. Research shows us that most people wait until they are six years into a relationship before they reach for the help, direction, and support that they need.

Sabrina earned a Bachelor’s Degree in both Psychology and Spanish from Emory University in Atlanta. She went on to complete a Master’s of Education in Human Development Counseling from Vanderbilt University. Sabrina provided counseling services in a community counseling center and an employee assistance program prior to working in an adolescent treatment program for addiction. Sabrina then found her true calling and spent 11 years working at Ridgeview Institute as the Family Program Coordinator. This role allowed Sabrina to work with addiction and psychiatric patients and their families toward a goal of recovery for the whole family from the destructive influence of mental illness and addiction. Sabrina provided a great deal of empathy for those under her care. She also offered education about family issues and recovery. Sabrina was fortunate enough to be entrusted to run a women’s abuse survivor group, a recovering professional’s aftercare group, family therapy groups and spouses groups, walking alongside courageous people who were working through these difficult and complex issues.

Since moving to Austin, TX, Sabrina has been offering educational lectures, co-facilitating family workshops and providing group therapy and family therapy at a variety of different treatment centers. Sabrina finds group therapy to be especially powerful and finds it especially fulfilling to help group members to grow through the connections that they create in this sacred space. Sabrina believes that there is great power in experiential exercises. The bonds that are created through those experiences and the truths that arise from them create readiness for change.

Sabrina’s philosophy is that compassion for one’s self is at the core of healing. She provides a compassionate and caring environment in which her clients feel safe enough to explore difficult emotions. Growth occurs just outside of one’s comfort zone, and Sabrina gently helps people to move toward the growth that they are seeking. Sabrina believes that her clients have the ability to change their own lives for the better. Using an approach tailored to the individual or family, she helps her clients take action to change their lives.

Annie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Mediator, Parent Coordinator and Clinical Trauma Professional. She has 30 years of experience in varied settings including private counseling agencies, chemical dependency treatment facilities, sexual and reproductive health centers, emergency response teams and psychiatric hospitals prior to establishing a private practice in 2001. Annie works with individuals, couples, families and groups, women and men, adolescents and adults.

Her areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, relational strife, trauma, complicated grief, LGBTQ issues, addiction and eating disorder recovery, coping with addictions, illness and /or special needs with family members, transitional life phases, divorce recovery, single and co-parenting. She also provides therapy, consultation and clinical supervision to new and seasoned therapists. Earning both her Baccalaureate and Graduate degrees in Social Work, she is committed to her field and is passionate about continuous education and professional as well as personal growth. She served as President and Executive Board Member with the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work, a state wide organization dedicated to the advancement of clinical social work practice through education, professional development, licensure, legislative lobbying and advocacy.

Annie uses a relational framework which views the therapeutic relationship as the transformative factor in healing, growth and change. As an integrative, client-centered therapist, her training includes but is not limited to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Family Systems, Real Life Therapy, Attachment and Trauma Informed Approaches. She uses a variety of modalities and strategies depending on the goals of each individual, couple and family. Annie is adept at creating an atmosphere of safety, warmth and acceptance where thoughts, feelings and experiences, past and present, can be acknowledged, explored and understood. She works actively and collaboratively with her clients to develop insight and generate solutions.

Through personal, family and parenting experiences, Annie has a perspective that helps her appreciate and respect the loops, lurches and the unexpected in life. She has always believed in the importance of seeking assistance during troubled times and the empowerment gained from self-acceptance and the knowledge of belonging.

I believe healing and change is possible despite the challenges (or upbringings) we face. I invite you to be curious about all the possibilities that come along with recovery and restoration. Anytime we start something new, it can feel scary and overwhelming. Connection and co-regulation foster safety, awareness, and self-compassion.

I have spent the last ten years working with individuals and families that have been impacted by addiction. I am passionate about recovery and can provide support and education at any stage of the disease and recovery process. We offer a range of treatment interventions depending on the individuals, couples, or family's needs.

My goal is to make sure you feel seen, heard, and supported as you find a path to recovery that fits and is sustainable. There is no one size fits all and we are intentional about creating a space that addresses each client's and family's specific needs and goals.