Sutherland Psychotherapy Associates, LLC, provides individual, couples, and family counseling for children, adolescents, and adults. We offer a range of specialized services, group therapy options and children’s health and wellness.

Individual Counseling
Many individuals find that working with a therapist on a one-on-one basis is the most effective and comfortable way to deal with their issues and concerns. SPA provides individual therapy services addressing a variety of problems and concerns, including anxiety and panic disorders, depression and grief, addictions and substance abuse, obsessive/compulsive disorders, problems affecting children and adolescents, and single or shared parenting issues.

Couples Counseling
Being married or in a relationship is hard work. Often, a couple’s ability to communicate effectively is the first thing to go and the last to return. SPA helps couples deal with such issues as poor communication, affairs, remarriage, divorce recovery, and conflict resolution.

Family Therapy
Our approach to family therapy recognizes that symptoms of one person’s problems often appear in the same or in a different form in other family members, and that trying to “cure” a person in isolation from his or her family is often ineffective. For this reason, we believe that working with the whole family often provides the most enduring “cure.”

Children’s Health and Wellness
SPA offers a range of children’s health and wellness services, including help for ADD/ADHD and oppositional defiant disorders, social skills training, and separation anxiety. Lisa Bryan, the principal of SPA, shares a special rapport with children and adolescents, which she incorporates into her counseling work, especially through the use of play to help her younger clients feel more relaxed and receptive to therapy. She was the lead therapist on the child and adolescent unit of a major psychiatric facility, and taught at the elementary and high school levels for more than 16 years before entering the mental health field.

Group Therapy
Group therapy provides a safe environment in which the individual can explore how he or she affects and is affected by others. The group setting provides the individual with an opportunity to try out new, positive behaviors in a risk-free environment, and often proves to be a powerful source of learning and healing.  Click here to see a calendar of upcoming events.

Specialized Services
SPA can help individuals deal with specific problems. Our specialized services include drug and alcohol evaluations, employee assistance programs, psychological evaluations, and support group programs. Please call (770) 246-2588 for more information.