About Farah
Farah Southwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with 30 years of practice. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. She also supports those coping with relationship and intimacy issues, addiction concerns, parenting strain, and career uncertainty.
Her approach is direct and calm. Sessions focus on practical steps for everyday life. She listens for what matters most and helps people try small changes that add up.
Background and approach
Her work respects cultural background and personal history. Farah commonly uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based tools to build values-driven action. Mindfulness practices and client-centered listening are woven into sessions to help people notice feelings and choose responses.
Emotion-focused methods are used when relationship patterns or painful memories need careful attention. She brings decades of experience to complicated situations such as trauma, chronic illness, anger, dissociation, and blended family stress. People will find clear strategies for coping, communication, and setting boundaries.
She also addresses concerns like body image, commitment worries, and abandonment themes. Sessions are offered in English and Haitian Creole. Farah aims to help people feel steadier, more in charge of choices, and better able to handle life as it changes.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that reflect those values, even when hard feelings show up. It helps when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to find patterns that keep problems going. It offers practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns.
Client-Centered Therapy centers on being heard and understood before making changes. This approach supports people who need a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through relationship issues, grief, or identity questions.
Farah treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily realities before choosing which methods to use. That collaboration helps tailor sessions to what feels useful and realistic for the client.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for most therapy tasks and face-to-face conversation, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep continuity when life is changing.
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What this therapist 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
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