About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Scrutchins is a licensed professional counselor who brings nine years of clinical experience in Georgia. She has worked extensively in correctional settings and now focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, substance issues, and trauma. Her style is direct and compassionate, with an emphasis on listening and practical steps people can use each day.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation about what’s most bothering them. She uses empathy and active listening to help people feel heard.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify patterns that get in the way and small changes that can reduce stress and improve mood. Her background includes work with people facing addiction, attention challenges, mood instability, grief, and relationship struggles. She also has experience supporting those who have experienced physical trauma or emotional abuse.
That experience informs how she approaches safety and pacing in sessions. Gwendolyn blends several evidence-informed approaches to fit each person’s needs. She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and actions, and from emotion-focused methods to address difficult feelings.
She also uses strategies from motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. Her administrative experience includes treatment planning and documenting progress, which helps keep therapy focused and goal-oriented. Gwendolyn speaks English and practices in Georgia as an LPC.
She aims to make sessions useful and practical for everyday life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-driven actions. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, and coping with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for depression, anxiety, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, focuses on identifying and naming emotions and improving how people respond to them, which can help with relationship stress and intense feelings.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what works. That means sessions can combine approaches such as CBT skills with motivational interviewing or emotion-focused techniques when helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English