About Farah
Farah Southwell helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma, addictions, parenting challenges, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and body image concerns. Farah is an LPC with 30 years of clinical experience and practices in Georgia.
Her style is direct and compassionate. She listens first, then helps people set small, practical goals. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings, such as spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors.
How Farah works
Farah uses clear language so overwhelmed parents can follow along easily. She draws from several approaches including cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and acceptance-based strategies. This mix helps with worry, mood swings, coping with change, and improving communication.
Emotion-focused methods are used when relationships and intimacy issues are central. Farah’s work often looks at patterns that keep problems going. She helps people identify those patterns and try different responses.
For someone facing chronic pain, caregiver stress, or a messy separation, sessions aim to restore routine and reduce daily strain. Many clients use a combination of short skills practice and deeper conversation. Farah speaks English and Haitian Creole, and she adapts her approach to each person’s cultural background.
Her long experience makes her comfortable guiding people through both sudden crises and slow changes.
Farah lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Farah works with
The areas below are the ones Farah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English, Haitian Creole |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approaches and online therapy that focus on what helps
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It helps when people are avoiding painful experiences and want to take action that matches their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s experience and uses empathic listening to build trust and self-understanding. This approach is useful when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through emotions and decisions.Figuring out the best mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that seem most helpful. This happens together, with adjustments over time based on how things are going.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work for quick reflections, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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