About Farah
Farah Southwell is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She offers steady support for those coping with life changes, grief, trauma and abuse, addictive behaviors, and challenges with intimacy or self-esteem. Sessions are offered in English and Haitian Creole.
Farah aims for a warm, straightforward style. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. Conversations focus on practical steps that fit each person’s life.
Background and approach
Expect a mix of talking, skill practice, and reflection. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral methods to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values even when feelings are difficult.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to support stress reduction and present-moment awareness. Over three decades of practice have shaped a flexible way of working. Farah pays attention to personal and cultural background when shaping treatment plans.
She helps people build coping tools they can use between sessions. Many clients come for help with family problems, parenting strain, body image and eating concerns, or career-related stress. She also supports those navigating ADHD, bipolar mood issues, bereavement, and recovery after domestic violence.
The focus is on clear, manageable steps toward daily relief and longer-term stability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small actions toward those values, even when strong emotions are present. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life transitions where motivation or meaning feels lost. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce worry, depressive patterns, and problematic coping. Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s experience at the center of the work, with the therapist offering empathy and nonjudgmental listening to help people find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Based on that conversation, they will recommend methods and adjust them collaboratively as therapy progresses so the plan fits the client’s life and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility that often makes regular sessions easier to keep. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when visual connection helps, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the approaches described above in a practical, goal-focused way.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English, Haitian Creole