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.
03/09/2026
Join Julie Lane, LPC for a mindful walk at South Peachtree Creek Trail at Mason Mill Park. This time together will include gentle movement in nature and a guided mindfulness break.
Life keeps us moving so fast that we rarely slow down enough to truly be present. You’re invited to a meditative walk where you can ground yourself in nature and reconnect with your body. In shared silence, you can release stress and anxiety without the need to speak or explain, simply arriving as you are. Along the way, we’ll pause for a 10–15 minute guided meditation, deepening our connection to breath, body, and the natural world around us. This is a time to reconnect with your inner wisdom and feel held by the space we create together. Come join us in this experience where you can just be.
Align therapist Kaleigh McAfee, AMFT says, "These lines make me immediately tender. I become filled with compassion for myself, and for others. I am reminded that I am (we all are) just a soul in a human body disconnected physically from love/all that is. That's why all of this is so hard, and can I be a little gentler with myself and others because of it?"
Full poem, A Cushion for your Head, by Hafiz (and translated by Daniel Ladinsky) is below, posted with full hearts especially for our Iranian and Muslim neighbors today.
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Just
sit there right now
Don’t do a thing. Just rest.
For your
separation from God
is the hardest work in this world.
Let me bring you trays of food and something
that you like to
drink.
You can use my soft words
as a cushion
for your
head.
03/06/2026
Thomasville is a small town of two minds - it's both fully part of rural southwest Georgia, surrounded by land still used for farming and hunting, and practically a suburb of Tallahassee, FL, only a 30-minute drive. Our sweet Thomasville office fills a huge need for mental health services in this area, and we love being right downtown "on the bricks" on Broad in the historical Upchurch Building.
03/05/2026
Introducing: The Hearth - for Practice Owners with Melanie Storrusten, LCSW. Part process group, part practical consultation, this group is a care-full blend of nuts-and-bolts guidance and space for emotional processing, challenging, and spiritual depth that comes with building and on-purpose business.
If you're a practice owner navigating the gap and the overlap between psychotherapy and healing arts, this group's for you.
We'll meet virtually the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from April through December at 2:00-3:30pm EST. Open to solo and group practice owners everywhere - especially those with integrative and holistic practices who are weaving together traditional and complementary modalities, with an eye towards best practices, the highest standards of care, and uncompromisable ethics. $100/session and space is limited to create a container to hold the vulnerability necessary for impactful growth. Contact Melanie to snag your spot.
03/05/2026
Our next Clinical Supervision cohort begins April 1st. If you are, or would like to be: integrative and holistic, trauma-focused, systems-based, somatic and emotion-focused, process-oriented, social justice minded, anticapitalist, anti-oppression, and liberatory... This group's for you. We'll meet virtually on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month April through December at 12:00-1:30pm. Cost is $100/session. Two spaces remain. Open to folks in GA or FL. Email Melanie to snag your seat or visit www.alignccc.com for more info.
03/03/2026
We love our cozy office in Tucker for many things - it's proximity to 285 making it convenient to the rest of Atlanta, especially Northeast Atlanta from Brookhaven to Decatur, the slightly-slower neighborhood feel of Tucker (we love Corner Cup Coffee), and mostly the centered vibe of our little office tucked back in the woods by the creek.
02/27/2026
Brawner Raymond is our Whole-Hearted Coach. She draws on her life coaching training, ongoing experience as a corporate manager, and experience and practice as a yoga and meditation teacher to offer 1:1 coaching for anyone feeling stuck in a variety of life arenas. She sees clients in our Tucker office and virtually anywhere in the world!
02/24/2026
Megan Nare, ERYT500, is our beloved trauma-informed yoga instructor. She leads our weekly virtual yoga class every Monday night - which she has expertly and lovingly crafted to be supportive of clients doing deep therapy work, providing nurturing anchor-points of support for nervous systems and integration of the work. Yoga classes are FREE for all Align Wellness clients, and only $11 for everyone else!
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 queer/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.
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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.
