Secular Counseling, Scientifically-Informed
Todd B.Hudson, LPC
Taylor McDowell, LPC
Lynsey Joy, APC
Dana Kopald, APC
Camille Roty, NCC
Waypoint Psychotherapy provides trauma, anxiety, EMDR, and couples counseling in Kennesaw, Georgia. Insurance accepted. In-person and telehealth therapy for adults.
You're looking for help and are feeling overwhelmed, not sure where to start. You're tired of of the big, impersonal healthcare organizations that seem to have bought up all the counseling practices. You're wary of faith-based counselors. You want someone to care about you, to listen to you, to understand your world the way you understand it.
Waypoint is a true private practice. Our therapist are scholar-practitioners, and each are committed to practicing from a secular, evidence-based perspective. We have built a culture of warmth, genuineness and inclusion. We invite you to get to know us.
OUR SPECIALIZATIONS
Trauma & PTSD
Trauma can be "simple" (distinct emotionally-charged events that left you feeling dysregulated), or it can be "complex," (years, even decades, of continuous abuse, neglect, shame, manipulation, head games, and/or other forms of mistreatment). Trauma rewires your neural circuitry in ways that leave you wondering why you do the things you do, and if you will ever feel whole again. Learn more...
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is the over-estimation of threat. It springs from our natural fight-or-flight response and our tendency to worry about things that could potentially go wrong. We evolved these functions to keep us safe. In anxiety disorders, these natural responses are exaggerated until they are self-defeating. Anxiety can be experienced as dread, procrastination, avoidance, an obsessive need for certainty, social paralysis, and full-blown panic. Learn more...
Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse often overlaps with complex trauma, but it deserves its own mention because it is often so subtle that we don't recognize it. When someone central to our lives is pathologically self-absorbed - whether they are grandiose, or needy and self-victimizing - the effect can be that our sense of self and of reality become distorted. The narcissist may have "trained us" to serve their emotional needs while ignoring our own, and we may carry this habit forward into other relationships. Learn more...
EMDR
One of the most effective, evidence-based interventions for PTSD and other trauma-related symptoms is EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). At Waypoint, we practice EMDR and other bilateral stimulation enhanced methods of exposure therapy to reprocess traumatic memories that keep clients stuck in painful loops. Learn more...
Couples Counseling
Gottman Method therapy for couples (provided by Dana) is the gold standard for evidence-based couples and relationship therapy. Based on decades of research by Dr. John Gottman on what makes relationships succeed or fail.
(Note: most insurance plans do not cover couples counseling)
Chronic Pain
Many people who experience chronic pain and other symptoms, such as chronic fatigue, TMJ/TMS, and gastrointestinal symptoms associated with trauma/stress/anxiety, may be experiencing a well-documented mind-body syndrome referred to as neuroplastic pain. This may especially be true if physicians have been unable to find a structural problem to adequately explain your symptoms. Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) is a new, evidenced-based therapy that can reduce or even eliminate your chronic symptoms. learn more...
Our Team
Our quiet, comfortable offices are located near Kennesaw State University, just off I-75 at the Wade Green exit.
