Services
Pictured here is one of Healing Tree’s Therapy rooms. We provide you with a safe space to explore your thoughts, feelings, and concerns.
We create a partnership with you on your journey to your desired result and provoke awareness, inspire change, and gain insight into any obstacles that have been in the way of you living your best life.
Individual
THERAPY
We approach individual therapy as a collaborative process between you and your therapist. Our therapists are equipped to help you develop a personalized plan to address what ever has brought you to therapy. For example, people may seek therapy for help with issues that are hard to face alone or overcome obstacles to their well-being. Additionally, they may come to therapy to increase positive feelings, such as confidence, self-compassion and self-worth.
Couples
THERAPY
Couples counseling consist of treatment for intimate partners. Goals of couples counseling can consist of improving communication and interactions, gaining an in-depth of your partner. Couples counseling can address recurring conflicts, feelings of disconnection, an affair, issues related to sex, or difficulties due to external stressors. Couples counseling can also be an option for couples who don't have any specific problems to address but want to strengthen their relationship.
Family
THERAPY
Family therapy can help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts. It may include all family members or just those able or willing to participate. Your specific treatment plan will depend on your family's situation. Family therapy sessions can teach you skills to deepen family connections and get through stressful times, even after you're done going to therapy sessions. Family therapy can be useful in any family situation that causes stress, grief, anger or conflict. It can help you and your family members understand one another better and learn coping skills to bring you closer together.
Children +
ADOLESCENTS
Child therapy is a type of therapy that is designed specifically for children and their unique psychological and developmental needs. Typically, professionals providing child therapy help them improve their thoughts, emotional reactions, and behaviors so they can succeed at school, home, and beyond. Child therapy is similar to therapy and counseling for adults in that it offers a safe space and an empathetic ear while providing tools to bring about change in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Child and adolescent clients receive emotional and goal support in their sessions. They can focus on resolving conflict, understanding their own thoughts and feelings, and on thinking of new solutions to their daily problems. Therapy can address divorce/separation of parents, death of a loved one, trauma, bullying, abuse, relocation, substance abuse, or mental health concerns
Substance Abuse +
CODEPENDENCE
At Healing Tree we are most passionate about teaching clients how to take care of themselves and gain insight on where they begin and others end. We are seasoned professionals in all clinical settings including hospitals, substance abuse recovery programs, crises centers and private practice.
Our approach is person-centered; wherever you are that's where we start. From there, we love looking at the patterns of thinking that influence your life decisions. At Healing Tree, we believe that once you are aware, you can identify and make changes that are at the core of who you are.
We are located at
3592 Float Shoals Rd., Decatur, GA 30034, USA
Our offices are located at 3592 Flat Shoals Road in Decatur, Georgia (30034), inside New Life Church & Community Center — a welcoming, community-rooted space in South DeKalb County. The campus is easily accessible from the Decatur and Lithonia areas, with free parking on-site. When you arrive, enter through the main church entrance and follow the signage to the counseling and community services wing.
FAQ’s
Clinical Supervision
+ MENTORING for therapists
Teresa is very passionate about supervision. She provides clinical supervision to Master’s Level Social Workers who may be in need of clinical hours to sit for LCSW exam and fulfill requirements, or just wanting to enhance their clinical skills. She also provides ongoing consultation to fully licensed professionals in need of support with difficult cases, helps clinicians sharpen clinical skills and learn the importance of practicing self-care to prevent burnout.
During clinical supervision, you will have an opportunity to discuss cases, treatment strategies, and other important topics. Daily work with distraught people can be inherently distressing, so a key aspect of clinical supervision is often helping therapists learn to compartmentalize their own emotions and practice better self-care. Supervision requirements vary with the degree and license a therapist holds. In most cases, supervision takes a year or longer to complete. For example, in most states, licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) must complete at least 3,000 hours of clinical supervision.
Teresa is an experienced supervisor who is willing to take a proactive role. She is willing to help you explore the areas you hope to specialize in. Teresa offers both group and individual supervision. Supervision Groups are held bi-weekly and consultation groups are held monthly. Teresa works best with supervisees that take a proactive role in their supervision. She is a strong advocate for teamwork and participation. She offers valuable feedback during clinical supervision, which is an important way to help a new therapist grow. She encourages supervisees to bring specific questions and issues to supervision. A 2013 study found that counselors rated their supervisor’s mentorship, not their education or training, as the most important factor in job performance. Working with someone who is willing to actively mentor you may offer the most value. Consequently, Teresa promotes the value of mentorship among her team.
