Untangled Mind, LLC

Untangled Mind, LLC Premier counseling for anxiety and trauma. Thoughtful, structured therapy that integrates CBT, brain science, and nervous system care. Marietta, GA.

Clear goals, practical tools, and steady progress.

As we close this year, I wish you a Merry Christmas, peace and joy in the New Year, and gratitude for what has been and ...
12/24/2025

As we close this year, I wish you a Merry Christmas, peace and joy in the New Year, and gratitude for what has been and what is to come in 2026.

In my happy place, family tradition of fresh ravioli. I doubled my batch, looking at about 300😬🤣Food is memories, and th...
12/14/2025

In my happy place, family tradition of fresh ravioli. I doubled my batch, looking at about 300😬🤣

Food is memories, and this is one of my most beloved.

Sapolsky and I don’t agree on everything. But his writing is thought-provoking, intellectually honest, and often, unexpe...
12/14/2025

Sapolsky and I don’t agree on everything. But his writing is thought-provoking, intellectually honest, and often, unexpectedly funny. That alone makes it worth engaging.

“The antidote to being unconsciously driven is disciplined reflection, learning to watch your own thinking instead of being possessed by it.” Jordan Peterson

That’s how I approach books, ideas, and even entire disciplines.

Chew the meat. Spit out the bones.

Not everything we read is meant to be swallowed whole. Some ideas are nourishing. Others are flawed, incomplete, or simply not ours to carry. The work is learning how to tell the difference.

If all we do is let the world spoon-feed us: what to believe, how to feel, who to blame, we don’t become informed. We become automated.

Metacognition is what restores autonomy. It is the capacity to step back, examine your own thoughts, question assumptions, and decide deliberately what you integrate and what you discard.

Too often, individuals choose to glom onto a label, theory, or framework rather than investigate it. Labels become shortcuts, identity substitutes are adopted without asking whether the underlying ideas actually align with one’s values, withstand scrutiny, or promote growth. In many cases, the label does the thinking for the person.

True engagement requires more work. It asks whether an idea sharpens you or dulls you, whether it expands responsibility or absolves it, whether adopting it meaningfully improves not only your own functioning but the lives of those around you.

That is why reading matters. Not as consumption, but as discernment.

Pick up a book you would have dismissed before. Sit with ideas that challenge your default assumptions. Discard what is weak or incoherent. Keep what is sturdy. Another person’s discarded idea may contain something unexpectedly useful, if you are willing to think rather than be told what to think.

Today I officially received my full LPC in Georgia.This journey restarted in August of 2020 after the loss of my busines...
12/08/2025

Today I officially received my full LPC in Georgia.

This journey restarted in August of 2020 after the loss of my business and a long hiatus from psychology. I didn’t return because it was convenient. I returned because counseling never really left me.

Graduate school. Internships. Thousands of hours. Delays. Detours. And today, it finally came full circle.

Grateful. Humbled. Proud. Exhausted. And ready for what’s next.

11/24/2025

Thanksgiving isn’t just food and gratitude. It’s personalities, patterns, and old dynamics that show up the moment we sit down.

This year, I broke down 15 common roles that tend to appear at the holiday table: from the martyr, to the narcissist, to the passive-aggressive relative, to the one who drinks too much, to the empty chair that represents loss.

The goal isn’t judgment. It’s clarity. Because when you can see the pattern, you don’t get pulled into it. If your Thanksgiving table is a mix of love, tension, humor, and history, this may help you walk in steadier:

Read the new blog:
Thanksgiving at the Table: A Therapist’s Guide to the Personalities You’re About to Sit With

https://www.untangledmind.net/post/thanksgiving-at-the-table-a-therapist-s-guide-to-the-personalities-you-re-about-to-sit-with

We count down to Christmas every year: 39 days, 38, 37, but rarely count toward our own healing with the same intention....
11/17/2025

We count down to Christmas every year: 39 days, 38, 37, but rarely count toward our own healing with the same intention.

This season amplifies everything inside us. For some, it’s excitement. For others, it’s anxiety, grief, or emotional exhaustion. And while we prepare for the holiday, many of us forget to prepare for our wellbeing.

My newest podcast episode dives into this idea:
39 Days. Thirty-Nine Shifts That Move You Toward Hope.

https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/UZmZzzvqlYb

This season amplifies everything inside us. For some, it’s excitement. For others, it’s anxiety, grief, or emotional exhaustion. And while we prepare for the holiday, many of us forget to prepare for our well-being.

Year End Sale: Introducing our Untangling Mind Workbook Series At the Lowest Prices EverOur clinically-developed workboo...
11/12/2025

Year End Sale: Introducing our Untangling Mind Workbook Series At the Lowest Prices Ever

Our clinically-developed workbooks provide practical tools and evidence-based techniques to help you navigate anxiety and trauma. Each workbook guides you through a step-by-step process of understanding your experiences and developing effective coping strategies for lasting relief.

With the holiday season approaching, these resources can help you prepare for potential emotional challenges, establish healthy boundaries, and create personalized self-care plans. Take advantage of this limited-time offer before our fully revised editions release in January.

When our fully revised editions launch in January 2026, they'll feature expanded content and align with our exclusive Untangled Mind Pathway system at a higher price point. Secure these valuable resources at their lowest prices ever before the transition.

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This morning, my coffee grew cold beside me as I read; Judith Herman’s Trauma and Recovery in one hand, The Spiritual Ex...
11/08/2025

This morning, my coffee grew cold beside me as I read; Judith Herman’s Trauma and Recovery in one hand, The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius and The Soul Also Keeps the Score stacked beside it.

Together, they form a dialogue between two worlds that are rarely brought into the same room: the psychology of trauma and the spirituality of restoration.

Last night, I was talking with my husband about my work. Some people carry stories so painful that they fear speaking them aloud, atrocities they’ve witnessed or even committed. Someone once told me they couldn’t understand how or why I do this work. As I spoke with him, I realized it isn’t simply what I do; it’s who I am. I recognize, in every story, a mirror of my own, a longing to be heard, to have one’s story received without judgment.

If I can be that place, that safe space where another can find their voice again, then that is sacred work. I’ve long said I have an agreement with Jesus, and I mean that. I sit with their pain, and then I carry it to Him. Anything less would crush my frail human frame; and anything more would be pride. I am not the healer. I am His conduit.

Herman writes that recovery is not just about remembering; it is about restoring connection, “from isolation to community.” McChesney takes that further, showing that trauma not only shatters the psyche but severs the soul’s sense of the sacred. Reading Ignatius through a trauma-informed lens, I’m reminded that peace comes not from fleeing pain but from transforming it through relationship with God, with self, and with others.

So here I sit in my favorite quiet Saturday morning ritual of prayer, reflection and reading, feeling what can only be described as a joyful heaviness.

My heart breaks for those I serve, yet it is filled with joy knowing that even in the ruins, there is the possibility of redemption. Healing begins when we dare to bring our story into the light, and when we hand it to the One who can bear it fully.

This week, I turned away four potential clients, not because they weren’t worthy of care, but because they weren’t withi...
11/06/2025

This week, I turned away four potential clients, not because they weren’t worthy of care, but because they weren’t within my area of expertise.

Each of them had read my reviews, understood my system, my plan that each client received who dealt with trauma and severe anxiety and still reached out.

I shared my sadness about it with my husband, and he reminded me why they did: even when people know my sole focus is trauma and anxiety, they still hope someone might do it all.

Our field has blurred the lines, convincing counselors that we should do everything. But I can’t, and I won’t. I hear too many stories of people who’ve moved from therapist to therapist, hoping to finally be helped. Why? I believe because few specialize deeply enough to address their needs directly and effectively.

I choose to specialize, to serve deeply, not broadly.

Because the quality of care will always matter more than the quantity of clients.

11/04/2025

Understanding assessments and what state reactivity and numbing look like.

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