Therapy in Metro-Atlanta, GA
Apraxis Center is a therapeutic group practice that provides traditional psychotherapy and counseling based services for individuals, couples and families.
In-Office, Online & Beyond
We offer the flexibility of being able to do therapy in a safe, warm environment, whether that be at our center or in the comfort of your own home via telehealth.
For those that prefer to do therapy in nature, we also provide “walk and talk” therapy. Conveniently located across the street from Kennesaw Mountain provides us the opportunity to jump onto a trail, wander the forest and talk while hiking.
Our Team
Our ReValues
Whether it be in the office or out in nature, our eco-integrative approach, centers itself around these values. The “re” emphasizes a “coming back to” with the hopes of approaching it anew.
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Cultivating fulfilling and meaningful relationships with self, others and the earth are vital for well-being.
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Self-reflection is the gateway and tool for all growth, healing and transformative experiences.
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An honest re-evaluation of an individual’s value system can help become more aligned with what's important, and can act as compass for navigating through life.
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Experiential therapies allows us to embody the spirit of play, curiosity and creativity, which aids in holistic development.
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Growth and transformation require the courage to take risk, to step into the unknown and persevere when faced with obstacles and barriers to reaching your potential.
therapy Services
Our specializations include treatment of depression, anxiety, grief/loss, mood disorders, trauma, identity/life transitions, career change, burn-out, relationships issues, and more.
We’re acutely aware that each of us carry a distinct set of circumstances, past experiences, and cultural backgrounds. We accommodate this diversity with a customized mind-body and relational approach to the therapy.
Our Excursions
In addition to providing in-office traditional therapy, we also provide experiential adventure excursions.
These excursions are designed to immerse clients into nature and cross-cultural settings - which act as holding containers and expand the human spirit. The ecological setting and assigned therapeutic activity for each excursions provides opportunities for…
individuals to reconnect with themselves,
work in teams,
conquer internal challenges,
overcome fears,
and rewrite a new story for themselves.
Each ecological setting provides a different opportunity for clients to connect various part of themselves - parts they may have abandoned and forsaken. Parts they can begin to embrace from a new sense of freedom.
Transformation begins at the edge of your comfort zone - “without risk, there’s no reward.”
Our approach
Creating and maintaining an intentional sacred healing space for inner work to occur is of utter importance to us.
At Apraxis Center we refer to this sacred space as a “holding container.” Through trust-building, we provide an intimate and safe environment that is filled with reliability, attunement, deep empathy, and compassion.
Our holding container carefully holds our client’s thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a manner that makes the healing process more achievable. The authentic presence that our staff provides serves as an anchor for our clients to courageously go within.
Through our personal and professional endeavors as clinicians, wilderness guides and fellow travelers, we know that a holding container can be found in…
Therapeutic relationship
The physical space of the center
Nature
Join us as we gather together towards greater self-awareness and inner harmony.
We provide an “eco-integrative” model of therapy.
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Eco represents our ecology - which is the fact that humans are embedded in a complex set of interacting systems made up of the relationships between other humans, nonhumans (plants, animals) within their surrounding environments. The Ecological Systems Theory (or Human Ecology Theory) put forth by developmental psychologist Urie Bronfrennbrener reasons that our human development, as well as our identity, is shaped by the interactions and relationships of our environments.
Eco and ecology also derives from the Greek word “oikos” which means home. When thinking about our ecology as our home, we can see this through a variety of examples.
• Our body is our home as it houses our sense of self and identity, made up of the energetic flow and interaction of cells, organs, and nerves.
• Our home is also the system of intimate relationships that form both our immediate family and local communities.
• The home that we all collectively inhabit and share is also the earth.
Viewing our environment as our home from this perspective creates a deeper sense of importance and urgency to protect and care for it, whether that environment is our physical body, our family and community, or the Earth itself.
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The integrative aspects of our process is the use of different modalities of care that bring forth a more holistic way of working with people.
Our integrative approach is grounded in both theory and practice. This means we rely on empirically based theories that inform our practices, interventions and techniques. It is the essence of what our name Apraxis comes from - putting theory into action.
When it comes to theory of knowledge, the scientific method is just one part of the greater whole of the Apraxis worldview. There’s tremendous value in also adopting knowledge in the form of wisdom, where the quality of being wise comes from an integration of experience, knowledge and the discernment of morals. Wisdom traditions, cross-culturally and historically, understand the relevance of cultivating habits, attitudes and ways of thinking to improve the quality of life for self and others. These also cultivate a spiritual development. This is achieved through the adoption of various philosophies and contemplative practices. The view of wisdom is complementary to our scientific worldview. Both are needed.
Just as an ecological perspective recognizes there are many parts to a whole system, our integrative approach understands that one specific theory or practice is not sufficient in addressing the needs of the individual, couple, family and society. Therefore, multiple theories and interventions are used to more fully support growth and healing.
Some of the foundational theories in our integrative approach are…
• Family Systems Theory
• Emotionally Focused Therapy
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• Polyvagal Theory
• Attachment Theory and other experiential types of therapies
Our approach takes a broader view and creates healing in a few different ways.
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The heart of experiential therapy is about engaging with the client in a manner that allows for patterns of emotions, thoughts, behaviors and associated memories to be more fully processed.
Experiential therapies create opportunities for people to see, feel, communicate and experience life and themselves in new ways.
At Apraxis we integrate different types of experiential therapies. And we offer them both in and outside of the therapy room.
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Apraxis Center is first and foremost a therapy practice that provides counseling and psychotherapy based services through the traditional forms of psychotherapy - where the office is the gathering place for the therapeutic work to be done.
The value of having an office as a holding container provides the sense of safety and security for clients to explore their lives with their therapist. We see our center as a dwelling place, or home, that houses the spirit of the therapeutic process.
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When possible, we extend beyond the confines of the room to integrate outdoor spaces as part of the transformational process. A growing body of research confirms the efficacy of experiential forms of therapy in various outdoor settings.
To learn more about our outside-the-office experiential therapies, check out our excursions page. You’ll learn the various offerings that range from “Walk and Talk” hour-long therapy sessions outdoors, to multiple day adventure excursions for those that have a call-to-adventure.
By being mindful of the mutual influence between ourselves and various systems (our ecology), we aim to intentionally engage with each system in order to promote a more harmonious way of living.
The path towards healing and growth begins here.
Contact us to schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation.