Stephanie Cook, LCSW

Hi, my name is Stephanie Cook, and I am a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist. I appreciate this opportunity to share with you who I am, and the counseling services I provide. I offer couples and individual counseling. Sessions are available either in person at my Atlanta office, or online, through phone or video conferencing technology. I am passionate about helping people create better lives and relationships by providing the most updated, effective, and evidence-based methods of counseling available.

With more than a decade of clinical experience working in the mental health field, I have helped people from diverse backgrounds with a variety of concerns.  I completed a two-year clinical fellowship at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, where I provided counseling to students, faculty, employees, and their families. While working at Ridgeview Institute, a psychiatric and addiction treatment program, I provided therapy and education for adolescents and their families.

SPECIALTIES:

• Gottman Method Couples Therapy, a research-based form of couples therapy, which is highly structured and goal-oriented, and is designed to help couples increase intimacy, better manage conflict, and build healthy, lasting relationships.
• Pre-Commitment and Premarital Counseling 
• Discernment Counseling for couples considering divorce or separation
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a  mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for learning how to better manage intense or difficult emotions and reduce self-sabotaging and relationship-sabotaging behaviors.

I offer in-person classes on healthy relationships on Saturdays once per quarter for couples and individuals, called the "Gottman Seven Principles Program", which is based on decades of relationship research by the Gottman Institute.