Tending the gap and the overlap: clinical therapy and healing arts for clients, practitioners, and community.
Our providers:
Melanie Storrusten, LCSW - owner and therapist, providing therapy for deeper healing, specializing in working with folks healing after trauma, LGB and trans clients, those seeking to reaffirm their connection with their bodies that may feel disrupted due to stress and trauma, illness or injury, body image concerns, or all of the ways society teaches us not to listen to our truest innermost voice. Melanie utilizes yoga, meditation, breath practices, reiki, and EMDR as well as traditional talk-therapy techniques. Visit http://www.alignwellnessatl.com to read about our other clinicians.
02/20/2026
Kaleigh is our resident Queen of IFS. Her working style with clients is direct, process-focused, and forward-moving. She also brings her training in yoga, yoga nidra, and reiki that inform her practice and beliefs about holistic healing and the *how* of therapy. She works especially well with veterans, military spouses, trauma survivors, grievers, the spiritually curious and questioning, and women desiring big life changes. IFS is her primary modality, and she infuses it with mindful and somatic practices. She sees clients (adults and couples) virtually throughout Georgia and is in network with Aetna, Taylor Benefits, and can bill in network for BCBS under the clinical supervision of Melanie Storrusten, LCSW.
02/17/2026
Julie Lane, LPC comes to us after years of experience working with oncology patients and their families. She continues her passion of working with grief, chronic illness and pain, and end of life issues as well as ADHD and OCD using DBT and ERP, as well as mindfulness and existential practices. She sees clients in our Tucker office and virtually throughout Georgia, and is in network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, and UHC.
02/13/2026
Jennifer Green, LMSW is our newest addition to the team, and sees clients from our Thomasville office and virtually throughout Georgia. With a background in macro social work with women, children, and families, and teaching social work students - she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the clinical world. She is in network with Aetna and Taylor Benefits and can bill in network with BCBS under the clinical supervision of Melanie Storrusten, LCSW.
02/10/2026
Laura Joplin, LMSW builds her therapists' intuition on a foundation of years of training in presence via yoga and meditation. Her professional philosophy and alignment with Align's core values and vision can be summed up in her own words: "we don’t need to be fixed, but seen." Her clients tend to be q***r/trans, neurodivergent, or working through trauma, grief, or major life transitions. Her somatic style lends itself to working well with anyone who desires to improve their relationship to their body and the present moment. She's in network with Aetna, sees clients in person and virtually, and is under the supervision of Melanie Storrusten, LCSW.
02/09/2026
Who wants to start a book club? What book would you want to read first?
02/06/2026
Kelley Collins, LPC brings an artist's insight to her work with clients - using Narrative and Art Therapies to help clients make meaning from their stories, adding to her training in ACT, IFS, and somatic experiencing. She works with teens and adults, and extensively with the q***r and trans community. She's in network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, and UHC and sees clients in our Tucker office and virtually throughout Georgia.
02/03/2026
Matthew Shugart, LPC's work is currently focused on working with trauma, other therapists, and spiritual seekers through EMDR, IFS, transpersonal and somatic underpinnings, and a keen interest in Jungian archetypes. He's in network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, and UHC. He sees folks in our Tucker office and virtually throughout Georgia. He is also a clinical supervisor-in-training.
02/02/2026
It has been a lot lately.
A lot to witness.
A lot to carry.
A lot to hold in our nervous system.
In moments like this, rest can be more than relief.
It can be a quiet refusal of burnout.
A small act of peace.
Let rest be a practice.
Let care be a resistance.
We invite you to join us for some restorative rest.
From your home, from your couch, from your bed.
- a warm invitation from our yoga instructor, Megan Nare, ERYT-500
02/02/2026
In an effort to be of more support to our immigrant neighbors, Kelley Collins, LPC has now completed training and is offering comprehensive immigration psychological evaluations in support of those petitioning for immigration support via hardship waivers, VAWA petitions, asylum cases, T and U visa applications, and cancellation of removal.
02/01/2026
I keep singing this song, lately, that says “Carry your candle, run to the darkness. Run to the weary, confused and torn. Hold out your candle, for all to see it. Carry your candle, and go light your world.” I learned it at church. May we collect our broken hearts - ours and each others’ - and persist in letting our light shine, little though it may seem. May we learn from those who come before us in the long-suffering fight for liberation; may we through grace find access to their resilience and strength. May our lights persist in shining, buoyed by strength from beyond the veil. May we work to remove all obstacles to its flowing. May we learn to tend these fires together. May nothing, no nothing, put out our light. May we find, and stoke, a necessary hope. May we cherish to feel the warm sun on our feet and our faces whenever it may come. May we keep warm, safe, and fed until then.
01/30/2026
Natasha Garland, LPC sees clients in our Tucker office, preferring face to face work. Her work - focused on grief, anxiety, and perfectionism - are especially well served by her specialization in DBT, RO-DBT, and EMDR modalities. She's in network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, and UHC (as are all of our fully licensed folks!)
01/29/2026
Calling all procrastinators! We see you; we are you! It's not too late to set some intentions for 2026. Join our FREE virtual workshop.
Join our whole-hearted coach, Brawner Raymond, for this free virtual workshop for us procrastinators, “I’ll do it tomorrow”ers, chronic overthinkers, executive don’t-functioners, people who thrive under (postponed) deadlines, and anyone ready to release themselves from the pressure of typical new year's resolutions.
We say it's not too late to set some intentions for 2026, and even that we are right on time as spring begins to stir.
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We provide holistic and integrative mental health treatment encompassing body, mind, and soul by utilizing conventional and alternative methods to facilitate connection with your innate and free-flowing capacity for deeper healing.
Our intention is that our work would contribute to a world where we all know ourselves more fully, care for ourselves more freely, take up space more confidently, and live more joyfully and abundantly from a place of purpose, compassion, and grace.
Align Wellness is filled with compassionate and skilled clinicians ready to meet you where you are, and to walk alongside you on your way to where you want to be. Whether you are looking for traditional therapy, deeper trauma therapy, yoga and meditation instruction, energy work, or holistic psychiatric medication support, we hope that one of our providers will be a good fit for meeting your needs. Read more about our services and reach out to connect about the type of work that feels most resonant to you.
For the traditionalist
Align Wellness Solutions specializes in providing therapy services to address issues of stress, anxiety, and trauma. One of our core beliefs is that this kind of deeper healing happens beneath the realm of cognition and the analytical (our over-thinking minds) - that healing lies in the domain of emotion, energy, and our physical bodies. So our work is based on restoring your connection and relationship to these parts of yourself.
Accessing the subtle body
EMDR
Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a powerful tool for treating post-traumatic stress disorder and for shifting negative core beliefs. This specialized technique can be incorporated into your therapy sessions with Melanie, or added on to your work with another therapist.
Yoga and Meditation
Confession: "yoga and meditation" is redundant. Yoga is a multi-faceted path that includes not only asana, the physical poses we usually think of as "yoga," but also breathwork and several layers of what we usually call "meditation."
Really, yoga means union.
We can use yoga's many tools of mind-body union - whether by way of breathing exercises and guided meditation practices, or sometimes incorporating small amounts of asana practices.
Reiki
Usui Reiki is a system of energy healing in which providers have received attunements to enable them to channel universal life energy (ki/chi/prana) in order to facilitate the body's innate ability to heal. It is used in hospitals and hospices around the world as a complementary treatment. Reiki can be a stand-alone service or can serve as a support for the deep work you are doing in therapy.
Holistic Psychiatric Care
With the addition of Lindsay Fuson, NP, we are pleased to offer holistic and integrated psychiatric services. Lindsay provides conventional medication management services, and also guidance and support regarding natural and alternative methods of managing your mental health symptoms.
