Align Wellness

12/17/2025

Registration for the 2026 cohort of my supervision group is open! We will meet virtually, biweekly on Wednesdays 12-1:30 starting Jan 7th. This group will close to new members at the end of January in order to create a safe enough container to hold the kind of risk-taking shares that deep learning requires. Groups led by Melanie Storrusten, LCSW for folks seeking licensure in both GA and FL.

12/04/2025

11/06/2025

A few spaces remain in our Grief Ritual this Sunday in Atlanta's lovely Oakland Cemetery.

Join us for a Sunday morning in the cemetery, November 9th from 10:00 - 1:00. We will gather in the Bell Tower at Oakland Cemetery for an ancestor-focused grief ritual - grieving together our losses of loved ones, sharing in the griefs of our ancestors, lamenting the loss of the village, ritual, and earth-honoring ancestral practices that keep us grounded, witnessed, and held, holding grief for the larger harms done to and by our people, grieving with our other-than-human kin and Mother Earth. These griefs, and more, are welcome here.

Your facilitators for this ritual will be Melanie Storrusten, Sascha Demerjian, Shonali Banerjee, and Lauren Faulk.

Visit our Rituals page for more general info about our Grief Rituals, and reach out if you have any particular questions about this one. The Bell Tower is ADA-friendly.

Pricing options:

Pay it Forward Rate $200 - This rate is for folks who are able to pay a higher ticket price in order for us to sustainably offer these types of events and continue to make them more accessible to all.

Standard Rate $154 - This rate covers the costs of the event and provides basic compensation to our four facilitators.

Community Rate $108 - There are 10 spots available at our community rate. Our hope is that these spots would go to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and disabled folks, folks who have recently had disruptions to their income due to our current political reality, or those who otherwise needs some financial assistance.

If our community rate is out of reach for you, please reach out to us and we will try to make accommodations as we are able.

Refund policy: Due to the space limitations and the amount of ritual preparation that goes into events like these, we are not able to provide refunds once your ticket is purchased. If extenuating circumstances arise and you’d like to gift your ticket to someone else, please contact us so that we can update our registration information.

Join us for a Sunday morning in the cemetery, November 9th from 10:00 - 1:00. We will gather in the Bell Tower at Oakland Cemetery for an ancestor-focused grief ritual - grieving together our losses of loved ones, sharing in the griefs of our ancestors, lamenting the loss of the village, ritual, and

11/06/2025

Registration is now open for our 2026 clinical supervision cohort.

Beginning January 7th, we will meet virtually on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month (except July and December) from 12:00 - 1:30. We will alternate each meeting between in depth case presentations and discussions and topic and skills-based experiential learning and discussion. Content will be based on the needs and interests of group members and my own unique set of skills and experience.

A little more about me as a supervisor:
My clinical framework is integrative and holistic, trauma-focused, and systems-based.
My goal is to help therapists learn to be more effectively present in the here-and-now work of therapy, as influenced by Yalom, somatic methods, and integrative practices.
My aim is to provide and help other clinicians provide therapy that is divesting from colonial and capitalist schema and structures:
- looking less at diagnoses and symptoms through an individualized lens and more at the impact of living in a capitalistic society, and intergenerational blessings and burdens.
- More intuitive, and less reliant on "right answers" or "book smarts."
- Acknowledges the indigenous, animist, and earth-honoring traditions that are the source of much of our clinical "theories" and wisdom.

In this group, you can expect to explore:
- mindfulness, meditation, and somatic practices and their application to the full spectrum of client experiences
- the power of presence of a therapist, how to improve our skills as a meaningful witness, how interoception and our own connection to Self/Source can be used as our best clinical tools
- theories of liberation, decolonization, and other frameworks that investigate the relationship between our ethical principles and the more patriarchal systems that govern our profession
- the self of the therapist and how our professional roles impact our lives, full expression of our humanity, and full participation in our communities

Groups are closed and capped at 6 members. We create very intentional little learning pods where we can feel freer to share vulnerabilities and weaknesses and risk "getting it wrong." Members can leave the group at any time with 30 days' notice, but an intentional commitment to stay with us for the full year is requested. Fee is $100 per 90-minute group, and that fee is due even in cases of absence in order to hold your place in the group. Groups meet 10 months out of the year, so you'll come away with 30 hours of supervision for the year. This group is led by me, a GA/FL LCSW (and registered supervisor in FL), so is ideal for GA LMSWs and FL RSWIs, however could be ideal for others who are seeking to learn from my particular skillset, and a group of like-minded clinicians who are wanting to explore the same topics.

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11/04/2025

There is room for you.

“There is some strange intimacy between grief and aliveness, some sacred exchange between what seems unbearable and what is most exquisitely alive.”
— Francis Weller

Join us for a Sunday morning in the cemetery, November 9th from 10:00 - 1:00. We will gather in the Bell Tower at Oakland Cemetery for an ancestor-focused grief ritual - grieving together our losses of loved ones, sharing in the griefs of our ancestors, lamenting the loss of the village, ritual, and earth-honoring ancestral practices that keep us grounded, witnessed, and held, holding grief for the larger harms done to and by our people, grieving with our other-than-human kin and Mother Earth. These griefs, and more, are welcome here.

Your facilitators for this ritual will be Melanie Storrusten, Sascha Demerjian, Shonali Banerjee, and Lauren Faulk.

Visit our Rituals page for more general info about our Grief Rituals, and reach out if you have any particular questions about this one. The Bell Tower is ADA-friendly.

Pricing options:

Pay it Forward Rate $200 - This rate is for folks who are able to pay a higher ticket price in order for us to sustainably offer these types of events and continue to make them more accessible to all.

Standard Rate $154 - This rate covers the costs of the event and provides basic compensation to our four facilitators.

Community Rate $108 - There are 10 spots available at our community rate. Our hope is that these spots would go to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and disabled folks, folks who have recently had disruptions to their income due to our current political reality, or those who otherwise needs some financial assistance.

If our community rate is out of reach for you, please reach out to us and we will try to make accommodations as we are able.

to register, visit: www.alignwellnessatl.com/offerings/p/november-grief-ritual

11/03/2025

Thank you!!! We were nominated by enough folks to be in the Top Five for Best Counseling Services in 2025’s Best of Decaturish! We are touched and as proud as always to be a part of the beautiful and brave work all of our clients and collaborative partners are doing in the world. Voting is open until Nov 15th.

https://www.decaturish.com/best_of_decaturish_2025/ #/gallery?group=525650

11/02/2025

Purposeful action is our antidote to powerlessness and despair. Whether that is a big global action, or a small local action - it is important to find an effort that feels doable in this moment that contributes to the kind of world we want to live in. You may find that some of your efforts feel like banging your head into a wall - I encourage you to find a place to take action that offers less resistance for a while. We do need people to chip away at the wall, but it’s not sustainable to keep up fruitless action long-term. Find an action that allows you to see the impact, and allow that to restore you for a while.

10/31/2025

A seasonal blessing, from me to you: At this time when another world can feel closer, may that closer world be a source of strength and renewal. May we gain access to the storehouse that nourishes us and restores our faith in the foundations of things. May we benefit from the work of those who have come before us. May their victory through struggle inspire us. May we hold our neighbor up as they rest, and may we be held by our community as we rest. May our actions now make us good ancestors to those who will come after us. May we resist the resisting of slowing down. May we turn towards this turning inward. May we learn more deeply about the things that truly matter. May we do less, so that what we do is more meaningful. May we meander and wander and j u s t b e s t i l l . And may we do all these things with grace and ease.

10/31/2025

Your facilitators for our upcoming Grief Ritual will be Sascha Demerjian, Lauren Faulk, Shonali Banerjee, and Melanie Storrusten. We have lovingly crafted this ritual, and we are looking forward to how our ancestors and Grief will show up and move in even more beautiful ways. We are so honored to bring you this offering. May it be of benefit.

10/31/2025

We are a holistic and integrative therapy practice. Holistic means that we see our clients as whole people living within systems whose impact cannot be ignored. Spirituality is a big part of that picture. We define spirituality as any practice or set of beliefs that enhances our connection to God/the Universe/a Higher Power, to others and our rightful place of belonging and balance in this world, and/or to our highest and wisest Self - the place in us that is compassionate, curious, and connected to Source, resilience, hope, and love.

10/29/2025

We define community as the folks who can count on us to show up for them, and we count on to show up for us. Through community, there are gifts of giving and receiving; there is rupture and repair. No matter your circumstance, we must find good hearted folks to be in sustained relationship with.