About Cerissa
Cerissa Bartlett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 12 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and navigate hard moments like grief or relationship strain. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping clients take practical steps toward feeling better.
Cerissa builds a calm space where people can talk openly about their thoughts and feelings without judgment. She listens for what matters most and works with each person to set small, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match each person’s readiness for change. Her work covers a range of concerns including family problems, parenting challenges, blended family issues, postpartum depression, and first responder stress. She also supports people dealing with career pressure, addictions, and trauma and abuse.
Cerissa pays attention to cultural and multicultural concerns and includes those factors in planning care. Therapy with Cerissa focuses on practical tools and real-life steps. Conversations include coping strategies for anxiety, ways to improve communication, and methods to process loss.
Coaching elements are used when clients want clear action plans and accountability. If someone prefers remote sessions, Cerissa offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging formats. Her approach is meant to fit into busy lives and varied schedules, making it easier to keep progress going.
Cerissa emphasizes that reaching out is a brave first step. She aims to support and empower people as they work toward a more fulfilling, balanced life.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many of Cerissa’s methods focus on practical, evidence-based techniques that teach coping skills and promote steady progress. One common approach emphasizes skills training for anxiety and stress management, helping people learn breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging techniques to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on brief coaching-style work that breaks larger problems into small, actionable steps and builds accountability for change.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Cerissa works collaboratively to identify goals and preferences, then adjusts methods as needed so therapy feels useful and relevant. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can be refined over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, and maintaining momentum between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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