About Kentosha
Dr. Kentosha Cody helps people who are overwhelmed, stuck, or coping with big life changes. She meets clients where they are and works alongside them to identify goals and practical steps.
The first conversations focus on what matters most to each person and on building small, steady progress. She uses a client-centered stance that puts the person's experience at the center of care. She combines that with cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and shift behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness skills are used to calm the body and attention when stress or anxiety feels intense. Over 12 years of work in Georgia, she has supported people through trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and relationship struggles. Her scope also includes concerns like addiction, bipolar mood patterns, sleep problems, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focus areas include co-morbidity, intellectual disability, and postpartum depression. Sessions aim to be practical and goal-focused. She draws on solution-focused strategies and motivational interviewing to boost readiness for change and to break larger problems into manageable steps.
Clients leave with tools they can use between sessions. People who prefer respectful listening paired with clear strategies tend to connect well with her style. She offers in-language work in English and provides services to international clients when that fits the need.
Dr. Cody holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC.
How her approaches fit into online care
Dr. Cody often blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools to help people change habits and thought patterns. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavior changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep issues.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people learn to notice their breath, body sensations, and thoughts without getting swept up in them. Mindfulness can be helpful when stress, trauma reminders, or strong emotions feel overwhelming.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. She works together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and comfort level, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and messaging are practical for brief check-ins, between-session support, or when written expression feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit appointments into busy days or when travel is difficult.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English