About Arline
Dr. Arline Edwards-Joseph helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, career uncertainty, depression, anxiety, stress, grief, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also pays attention to LGBT concerns, adoption and foster care matters, immigration and multicultural issues, and the effects of prejudice and discrimination.
Dr. Edwards-Joseph is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia with 25 years of experience. Her style is straightforward and focused on building a working relationship.
How Arline works
She listens first and then helps people identify practical steps they can try between sessions. Sessions are collaborative - the person is treated as the expert on their own life while the therapist offers tools and perspective. Dr.
Edwards-Joseph uses approaches such as Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy when someone wants clear goals and quick, usable strategies. These methods are applied to everyday problems like parenting stress, career decisions, or coping after a loss.
Her background includes long experience with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, and work that spans school-age concerns through young adult issues. That experience informs how she frames conversations about identity, cultural stressors, and immigration-related challenges. People who choose her can expect a calm, respectful setting where the focus is on small, measurable changes and on goals chosen together.
She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English through multiple online formats.
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What Arline works with
The areas below are the ones Arline selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience, and helping them find their own answers to relationship, identity, or grief concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and gives practical techniques for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Motivational Interviewing helps people move past ambivalence and build motivation for changes like career moves or parenting adjustments.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to pick or blend methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions often start with small goals and adapt as progress is made, so the plan can change over time.
Online therapy makes regular work on goals easier to fit into life. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and reading nonverbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, live chat suits short exchanges or quick problem-solving, and text-based messaging works for ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or long-distance arrangements while working toward clear, practical change.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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