Talk therapy consists of sessions ranging anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the type of therapy and your choice of length, during which you have conversations with your therapist of choice about challenges in your life. The therapist helps you establish goals you’d like to meet, and then uses various methods to help you achieve those goals.

Our therapists are highly trained and continue to train all the time in new and more advanced methods of therapy. Here are just a few ways they’ll help:

1. Emotionally Focused Therapy: EFT focuses on emotional experiences and reactions in

individuals, couples, or groups. Being based in attachment theory, it seeks to structure encounters which will foster healing and reparative experiences for the client, as it places importance on safe bonds as the vehicle for growth and change.

2. Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: CBT helps us change our patterns of thinking. It assists us in recognizing our cognitive distortions, challenging and reevaluating them, so that we can change our behaviors and thus, our lives. The trauma focus incorporates interventions which recognize and address the effects of trauma on the midbrain, and therefore on our thoughts.

3. Brainspottng: BSP recognizes that, because of how trauma, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, performance anxiety, and a number of other struggles affect our limbic system / midbrain, “where we look affects how we feel.” Thus, BSP is a meditative, somatic form of talk therapy which heals the mind/body connection by utilizing eye position during trauma processing.

4. Sex Therapy: Sex Therapy is a specialized training that encompasses a vast body of knowledge focused on working with largely marginalized populations (such as LGBTQIA+ populations and disabled populations) and working with specific challenges such as intimacy issues or chronic pelvic pain. Sex therapy occurs in a safe, nonjudgmental, empathic atmosphere where your therapist gives information, specific suggestions, and does intensive therapy using many of the methods above. Sex therapy NEVER involves any kinds of nudity or sexual touch.

5. Existential Therapy: Existential therapy focuses on IF we exist and HOW we exist. Many people struggle with fears of death, ambivalence and diffculties making decisions, an acute sense an anxiety about time passing, and other forms of existential fear. Existential therapy uses interpersonal processing, exploration, and trauma processing to get to the root of the fears and resolve them.

Therapy ranges in cost depending on the type of therapy, length, and is particular to each therapist. Please refer to each therapist’s individual page to see where their fees begin and call for more detailed information.

The therapists at Petrichor are out of network providers. We are happy to give you superbills for your sessions so that you can submit them to your insurance company for reimbursement according to your policy. Just ask our administrative staff and they’ll be happy to help you!

That is up to you! Frequency depends on your desired speed of progress (usually influenced by your level of distress or crisis), your availability for therapy sessions, your budget, and the type of therapy you and your therapist determine is appropriate for you (such as weekly group therapy, biweekly individual, monthly couples, one-time family intensive, etc.).

Our therapists do not prescribe medications. Only physicians (like psychiatrists) can prescribe medications. Our therapists have advanced knowledge about psychotropic medications and are happy to talk to you about your medications and coordinate care with your physicians with a release of information from you. But they will always defer to your physician when it comes to the final word on your medications.

Yes! We have locations in Atlanta, Georgia and Duluth, Georgia and can offer in-person sessions at either of those locations. Just ask and our administrative staff will get you scheduled for an in-person session with your therapist.

Yes! We can offer Telehealth appointments to clients anywhere in Georgia as well as in some other states (dependent upon each individual therapist’s licensure). Just ask our administrative staff and they’ll schedule you for a Telehealth appointment!

Yes! Some of our therapists offer coaching in addition to therapy. Coaching is a separate skill that is different from therapy. It is not focused on mental health. Rather, it is exclusively forward, goal focused, rather than looking for causes as well as solutions (as therapy does). It does not dig deep the way therapy does, but instead guides you through making specific choices when you are struggling to figure out how to move forward.