GROW Counseling

09/29/2026

Ever wonder why an offhand comment, conflict, or stressful situation can trigger such an intense reaction?

Join Alex Weinar, NCC (GROW Counseling), and Charlotte Nagy, LPA (Lepage Associates), to learn why in our Free Webinar, "Untangling Trauma and Anxiety: What Shows Up in Adulthood and How to Work Through It," on October 21st.

🔗 Register here! https://bit.ly/46ZcCPK
(If you cannot attend live, register to receive the recording via email)

You’ll learn how to:
🧠 Distinguish everyday stress from trauma-driven anxiety
🎯 Understand why certain triggers hit harder
🌿 Use grounding techniques in the moment
🤝 Recognize when it may be time to seek additional support

We hope you can join us!

09/28/2026

Meet the team:

Liv Castillo
Buckhead

Specializations: Adolescents, Young Adults, Eating Disorders, Anxiety, Trauma

Liv knows that the years between adolescence and adulthood can feel like a lot to carry. She works with teenagers and young professionals who are sorting through anxiety, trauma, and complicated relationships with food and their bodies - people who are often functioning just fine on the outside while quietly struggling underneath.

Before joining GROW, Liv spent time at a clinic specializing in eating disorders and trauma, where she developed a deep understanding of how these experiences shape the way people see themselves and move through the world. She's currently pursuing her doctorate at UGA, which means she brings both hands-on clinical experience and a genuine curiosity about the work. That combination shows up in how she sits with clients - thoughtful, unhurried, and willing to go where the conversation needs to go.

Liv also offers faith-based counseling for clients who want their spirituality woven into the work. It's not something she imposes - it's simply something she holds space for if it matters to you.

Liv sees clients at our Buckhead office.

You can learn more about Liv or get connected by visiting: https://ow.ly/fi8950ZSneQ

09/23/2026

We are hosting another in-person "Counselor Connects" at our Buckhead office in October and we would love to see you there if you are a therapist in the Atlanta area!

We know counseling can sometimes be a lonely profession, so we want to open up our space for a time of connection and good company. Drinks and treats on us!

RSVP here: https://airtable.com/appzuPhn6OM9A4ZYB/shrKXs6MuEmJ1y5nK?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Organic_Social&utm_campaign=grow%2Btherapy_26_tof&utm_term=michele&utm_content=counselor%20connects%20october%2022

Thursday, October 22nd
Drop in from 4:30-5:30!

2964 Peachtree Rd. NW, Suite 760
Atlanta, GA 30305

09/09/2026

There's a particular kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix. You're snapping at the person you love over small things, the evenings feel like a debriefing instead of a reunion, and somewhere along the way the two of you stopped being partners and started being project managers tracking who did what and who owes whom.

That's couples burnout, and it's more common than most people talk about.

Our latest blog breaks down what's actually happening when burnout starts rewriting how you treat each other, including the nervous system reason you keep absorbing your partner's stress even when you're trying not to. It also covers two small habits that cost almost nothing to start tonight, and the case for setting one clear boundary before resentment has a chance to grow.

Click here to read more: https://ow.ly/u51150ZLsWq

Couples burnout is real, and it changes how you treat each other. GROW Counseling explains what relationship burnout is and how to recover.

08/17/2026

Meet the team:

Alana Barkman
Peachtree City

Alana has spent her career with kids and teens, ages 3 to 18, sitting with them through trauma, abuse, anxiety, depression, shaky self-esteem, and the behavior that usually has something underneath it. She also works with young adults and couples. The ones stuck in the same argument. The ones living with a distance they can't quite name, or trying to figure out what comes next after infidelity or addiction.

Whoever's in the room, she's after the same thing: helping people find words for what's gone unsaid, and making sense of how old experiences keep showing up in how they think, feel, and love now. Much of her work is helping clients speak up for themselves and hear their own voice again, especially when it's been quiet for a long time.

Alana keeps it warm, collaborative, and moving at the pace of the person doing the work. She believes every story matters, and that the hardest chapters are often where the most insight and healing live.

Alana is now seeing clients at our Peachtree City office. Click here to learn more about Alana or get started: https://ow.ly/3iRU50ZAAqg

08/11/2026

The return to school can be exciting, but it can also create stress for children and parents alike. Changes in routines, academic expectations, friendships, and busy schedules can feel overwhelming.

Join Elizabeth West, LPC, as she shares practical, evidence-based strategies to help families navigate the back-to-school transition with greater confidence and less stress. Parents will learn how to establish routines that stick, support emotional well-being, and respond effectively to the challenges that often arise as children adjust to a new school year.

Link to join: https://ow.ly/jwQL50Zyzv1

Attendees will learn how to:
- Create consistent routines that reduce stress and help mornings, homework, and evenings run more smoothly.
- Recognize common signs of back-to-school anxiety and respond with confidence and compassion.
- Support children's emotional regulation, resilience, and independence during times of transition.
- Foster healthy communication and problem-solving skills when school-related challenges arise.
- Know when typical adjustment difficulties may signal the need for additional support and what resources are available.

Regardless of your student's age, this webinar will provide practical tools you can begin using right away to help your family start the school year feeling prepared, connected, and confident.

Join us to to gain evidence-based strategies that will help your child, and your entire family, thrive throughout the school year.

08/06/2026

Are you a counselor?

Some of the best conversations in this work happen in hallways and parking lots, with someone who already knows what the morning was like.

We're making more room for those. "Counselor Connects" is a drop-in morning at our Buckhead office for counselors around the city. Coffee, breakfast, and an hour to talk to people who do what you do. No agenda, no CEUs, nobody processing anything.

Friday, August 28, 8:30 to 9:30.
Stay ten minutes or the whole hour.

RSVP here: https://airtable.com/appzuPhn6OM9A4ZYB/shrocdmqzgX6JUNXY

07/20/2026

Meet the team:

Sheri Schulze
Virtual Counseling

Specializations: Relationships, Self-Esteem, Trauma, Chronic Illness, Anxiety, Depression

Sheri has a particular understanding of the people who hold things together for everyone else. She works with adults and couples, and has spent years supporting executive spouses and female leaders, the people whose own needs tend to come last precisely because they are so capable. She also facilitates a spiritual leadership program for women CEOs.

Her work makes room for the whole person, including faith when a client wants that to be part of it. She's a Richmont graduate, licensed in Georgia, Florida, and Virginia, and she sees clients virtually, so support fits around a full life rather than asking you to add a commute to it. Whether it's trauma, the weight of a chronic illness, or a relationship that needs tending, Sheri brings warmth and steadiness.

You can learn more about Sheri or get connected by visiting: https://ow.ly/pBRm50Zq3Bo

07/10/2026

Save the date: Wednesday, July 29 at 1:00 PM ET.

If you're a woman somewhere in midlife and you've caught yourself thinking ,"Why doesn't the life that looks good on paper feel the way I thought it would?", this one's for you. Join Nichole Michelson for a free webinar on the emotional and psychological shifts so many women move through in midlife: the identity questions, the burnout, the changing relationships, the hormonal stress that doesn't get talked about enough.

It's free, and it's the kind of conversation a lot of women have been quietly wishing someone would have out loud.

Registration details here - https://ow.ly/bhUo50Zmxrt

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07/10/2026

The second drink every night. Checking the phone before you're even out of bed. The work email that's supposed to be off by 7 but never is.

None of this looks like addiction the way people picture it. No rock bottom, job's fine, family's fine. But something's taking up more space than it should.

Addiction isn't all-or-nothing. It's a spectrum, and the same brain chemistry behind a compulsive scroll is behind a compulsive drink. Most people live in that gray area for years without naming it.

A few questions worth asking yourself: Has it crept up over time? Have you tried to cut back and not managed? Do you feel restless when you can't do it? Have you started hiding small parts of it from people close to you?

If a couple of these hit close to home, it's worth a conversation. Therapy here usually isn't about rehab or strict abstinence. It starts with figuring out what the behavior is actually doing for you.

On the blog today, Dr. Wendy Ragland draws on nearly two decades of counseling experience to explore "light addictions". These are the everyday habits like phone checking, online shopping, or answering work email late into the night that quietly turn into compulsions.

Check out the full post to learn more - https://ow.ly/KlZv50Zmrwb