Both of our clinicians work with Georgia clients, so psychological services and professional counseling are available through one office.
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Request a Georgia appointmentGeorgia is one of a small number of states where clients can reach either of our clinicians, and that has a practical consequence: the psychological side of a difficulty and the counseling side need not be split between two practices. We work with children whose trouble is showing up first at school, undergraduates in Athens, adults in Atlanta carrying a hard year of work or marriage, and older clients meeting illness and loss. Every hour is held by secure video.
Two licenses are not interchangeable, and the line between them is worth stating plainly. Psychological evaluation and testing belong to Dr. Lusk. Continuing counseling — for an adult, for a child, for two partners — may sit with either clinician, and fit decides which. Because a session happens wherever a door can be closed, a parent in Macon keeps an hour that the drive into the city would otherwise have swallowed whole.
Below are the concerns Georgia clients raise most often. Which clinician suits a given piece of work is settled with you rather than by the name on the service.
A child is seen with a parent taking part in consent and goal-setting, and the hour is built around a child's attention span. What surfaces is usually school, friendship, or worry that has taken up residence in the stomach.
Parents arrive on their own at least as often as with a child, wanting a nightly pattern interrupted. The work examines who in the household carries which role, and what amount of change is realistic between now and next month.
Two things need attention: the worry itself, and the life that has quietly shrunk to accommodate it. Cognitive Behavioral techniques give the work its structure, and you set the speed at which an avoided situation is approached again.
The first months with a baby can bring mood that swings without warning, thoughts that intrude and frighten, and a tiredness quite unlike ordinary tiredness. Counseling provides a place to put all of it into words.
Where the past still organizes the present, we go carefully and without pressing for disclosure. Steadiness and pacing come first; the method suited to a particular history is chosen afterward, and only with your agreement.
Dr. Lusk conducts evaluations for diagnostic clarity, for learning needs, and for the referral questions a school or a physician sends our way. Whether a battery suits remote administration is settled in consultation once the question is clear.
Establishing a concrete roadmap early gives you a reliable way to gauge progress. When multiple members of a single Georgia household seek our services, each individual is assigned a separate clinician and maintains an independent clinical record. We share no information between those files without explicit written consent, and we clarify this privacy boundary before anyone signs a form. Our therapeutic interventions often involve Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), selected specifically for the person sitting in front of us, rather than merely treating a diagnosis. As we do not offer a quick fix, you can expect a measured pace focused on long-term stability. Integrating cultural awareness directly into the initial evaluation ensures that the ensuing months of weekly work respect your unique background.
Georgia clients may see Della S. Lusk, Ph.D., for psychological services, or Alethea Braun-Dunagan, M.A., LPC, for counseling. Ms. Braun-Dunagan also handles intake here, so the first conversation is usually one you have with her.
Clinical Director · Bilingual Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Lusk holds the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT™) granted by the PSYPACT® Commission, which authorizes her to provide telepsychology to clients located in Georgia.
Dr. Lusk is our Clinical Director, a bilingual Licensed Clinical Psychologist of more than twenty-five years' standing. Smith College gave her an A.B.; the clinical doctorate came from the California School of Professional Psychology–San Diego, a program holding APA accreditation. In Georgia she provides therapy across the lifespan together with psychological evaluations, including educational and neuropsychological assessment when the referral question calls for one.
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Licensed Professional Counselor
Ms. Braun-Dunagan provides counseling to clients located in Georgia through the Counseling Compact™, and has availability for Medicare and TriCare clients.
Ms. Braun-Dunagan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and sees children, adolescents, and adults located in Georgia under the Counseling Compact™. She works with Cognitive Behavioral techniques inside a holistic, individualized approach. Her interests run to postpartum mood disorders and women's issues, to stress management, and to relapse prevention in addiction work; with young clients she also takes up advocacy and the mending of relationships at home. She has availability for Medicare and TriCare clients.
Request an appointmentFull biographies, training, and areas of expertise are listed on our providers page. You can also read Dr. Lusk’s licensure and credentials and Ms. Braun-Dunagan’s licensure and areas of focus in full. You are welcome to ask any clinician directly about their qualifications and experience.
Georgia participates in both PSYPACT® and the Counseling Compact™, which is why two clinicians can be offered here. Dr. Lusk works with Georgia clients under the Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology; Ms. Braun-Dunagan works with them under the counseling agreement. The two are separate licenses with different scopes, and the difference is not a formality: psychological testing is psychology, and a counseling license does not extend to it.
Whichever clinician you see, what governs the hour is the state you happen to be in when it begins. A trip, a semester elsewhere, or a move out of Georgia therefore needs mentioning before the next appointment rather than after it, and our office will confirm what is possible where you are going. Both commissions publish their current participating jurisdictions, and we check yours before a first appointment is arranged.
Participating jurisdictions are published by the compact commissions and can change. You can review current psychology participation at psypact.gov, find the relevant psychology licensing board through the PSYPACT® board directory, or check counseling privileges at CompactConnect. If you are not sure which applies to you, call (844) 774-7997 and we will confirm before you schedule.
Students, faculty, and staff come to us from the University of Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Emory University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Agnes Scott College, and the other campuses listed below. Outside care is often preferred where the counseling office and the department share a building and a staff room.
Georgia clients join from Atlanta, Athens, Savannah, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Decatur, and from smaller places around them. Being close to a city does not by itself put the particular clinician you want within reach, and a video appointment removes the journey in either case.
Anyone from a young child to an adult in the last decades of life, including couples and families. Here that can also mean a household where one member is in counseling and another is being evaluated. If a difficulty falls outside our scope, or plainly needs somebody in the room, we will say so at intake and suggest where else to look.
Evaluation and testing are Dr. Lusk's. Counseling may be either clinician's, and the choice turns on fit rather than on availability. Since Ms. Braun-Dunagan takes the intake calls, the question is usually answered in that first conversation, before an appointment is placed on anyone's calendar.
No. Evaluation and testing are psychological services, and they are Dr. Lusk's. Counseling and psychology are separately licensed professions with different training behind them. If an evaluation is what your situation calls for, intake will route you accordingly instead of starting a course of counseling and discovering the mismatch three months in.
Regularly, at the large public universities and the small private colleges alike. A weekly video hour survives a semester and, where the authorization reaches, the breaks as well. Tell us if you will be at a family home in another state, so that the position can be checked before the date arrives.
One telephone call to (844) 774-7997, or a note to info@psychotherapy.com. Intake will ask what has been happening, help you work out which of the two Georgia clinicians fits, send the fee agreement, and answer any out-of-network questions in advance. Nothing is scheduled until that conversation has happened.
We accept all major credit and debit cards, and we gladly accept HSA, FSA, and HRA cards so you can use pre-tax dollars toward your care. Our practice generally operates out-of-network. This allows us to protect your privacy, keep care highly personalized, and avoid insurance-mandated session limits.
Our rates are sent in a fee agreement when you schedule an appointment. Please check with your insurance company regarding your out-of-network benefits. As a courtesy, we will submit claims on your behalf upon request, and any reimbursement will be sent directly to the insured. Call (844) 774-7997 or email info@psychotherapy.com if you have questions.
Our services are by appointment only, during normal business hours. Evening, weekend, and early morning appointments are sometimes available for established clients.
Call (844) 774-7997 or write to info@psychotherapy.com to ask for a confidential appointment. We will listen to what is going on, sort out which of the two Georgia clinicians is the right person for it, and find an hour the rest of your week can accommodate.
We do not offer crisis, walk-in, or inpatient services of any type, and this page is not a substitute for emergency care.
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