Telehealth therapy across Georgia
Effective therapy should feel like talking to someone who is truly in your corner. Someone honest, warm, and experienced to help a motivated person move forward. We work with couples, families, individuals, and children ages 9 and up who are driven to change and take their mental health seriously.
Specialties
Most couples are facing a compatibility problem. It usually comes down to one or more of these: trust, compromise, and communication, which are the foundation of a healthy relationship. Together we will develop those tools, work through the issues you are facing, and find solutions for the disconnection.
We address women's health, self-care, the multiple roles you carry, and how to effectively balance it all.
A career change, a divorce, a new baby, an empty house, a loss. Big transitions can leave anyone feeling unsteady, no matter who you are. Whatever season you are moving through, we will help you find your footing and a clearer sense of what comes next.
Family therapy helps identify the distorted beliefs and dysfunctional habits in play, while we build new tools to replace the unhealthy ones.
Anxiety, ADHD, depression, and life coaching. We are direct and solution focused. We will listen closely, gently name what is not working, hand you practical tools, and hold you to using them.
Faith and spirituality are an essential part of who you are. If it matters to you, it matters to us. We specialize in Christian values and encourage you to bring that belief system into your healing. But at the end of the day, you are your own expert, so whatever you value, we will integrate it.
About the Founder
Hi, I'm Dezirae. I was born and raised in New Jersey, which means I don't sugarcoat. I shoot from the hip, and I do it with love.
My path here wasn't a straight line. I started out in Colorado and taught high school students with emotional and behavioral challenges. While I was teaching, I saw how many people struggle with emotional issues, and I found I was able to help. Becoming a therapist became a clear decision. When I moved to Georgia, I went back for my master's in mental health counseling.
I interned at the Gwinnett County Detention Center, then spent years in community based work with DFCS, foster kids and foster parents, students in schools, and adults across the community. From there I moved into substance abuse treatment, working in inpatient rehab with clients facing every kind of addiction. In 2022, I opened my own practice, Healthy Minds for Healthy Homes.
All of that taught me one thing. Progress doesn't happen in the therapy room. It happens in your life, between sessions, when you actually use the tools. Our job is to listen, tell you the truth, hand you those tools, and hold you to using them. When something isn't working, we don't just keep doing it. We figure out why, and we try something different.
Reach out through the contact form and we will get you on the calendar. No need to have it all figured out first.
In your first session we will talk through what brought you in and begin building your plan together.
The real change happens between sessions, when you put the tools to work in your everyday life.
In their words
"She listens to what's going on in my life without judgement and gives me tools and examples on how to utilize them in the future. She's really personable and has a great sense of humor and I feel understood by her. She's really solution oriented which works great for the therapy style that I was looking for."
"Met Dezirae for the first time, it was great! Easy to talk to, felt understood! It was like a great massage, where you are like, 'Wait, it's been an hour already?'"
"We thoroughly enjoyed our initial session with Dezirae. She was kind and sincere and gave us homework to challenge us throughout the week. We feel that she will be a great asset to our growth and look forward to additional sessions with her in the future."
Good questions
Ask it in the contact form below. We can talk through anything once we connect.
Schedule an AppointmentDirect, honest, and warm. We will tell you the truth, we will push you to think differently, and we will hold you to the work. We also hold firm boundaries, and we ask the same of you. That is part of what makes the work effective, and it is all done with care.
Yes, and online is the only way we work. We see clients virtually anywhere in Georgia, so you can do your sessions from wherever you are most comfortable.
We offer direct, private pay therapy. That keeps your care private and flexible. With insurance, we are required to give you a mental health diagnosis and justify your treatment to your insurer. Private pay means your therapy stays between us, and we focus on what you actually want to work on, not on what a company will approve.
We will handle a little housekeeping and an intake, then start building the skills you will use to steady yourself on your own. We spend the early weeks giving you a real toolkit, not just talking.
There is an old stereotype that medication is for people who are "crazy." It is not. Needing medication does not mean something is wrong with you. It is simply a tool, and there is no shame in using what helps you feel well. If it ever comes up, we will talk it through together.
Our goal is to give you the tools to not need us. Most clients move from weekly to every other week within a few months, shift to monthly check-ins around six months, and are typically ready to graduate within nine to twelve months.
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