Athens Counseling & Psychotherapy, LLC
Provider Types
This is a group practice with multiple providers, including:
- Clinical Social Work/Therapists
- Licensed Professional Counselors
Our Specialty
Marielle Gunasekera Stair, LCSW and Danica Legato-Riding, LPC specialize in working with adult development, trauma, and sexuality.
We work with you to develop and sustain the psychological and/or somatic depth necessary to address the grotesque complexity of recovery and resolution.
Our Practice
You are all welcome here. We offer effective outpatient, individualized mental health and trauma-focused short-term counseling & long-term psychotherapy.
We are a culturally divers duo and inherently love supporting diversity, culture, connection, and community. We genuinely love what we do. This is a BIPOC, Queer and social justice validating space, because this is also our lived experiences.
With over 20 years of practice between us, we have extensive experience serving a diversity of races and ethnicities, spiritual orientations, sexual identities, expressions of gender, and intimate relationship frameworks.
We are sex and kink positive. As practitioners, we have significant experience teaching and supporting power exchange frameworks such as those found in BDSM. We support diverse and expansive intimate and interpersonal relationship frameworks.
Marielle and Dani work with adult individuals. Marielle also supports intimate relationships and families. We do not work with anyone under 18yo.
Our Focus
Our process is to help you navigate the never-straight, often meandering path of healing through your lived experience and history. We suggest that healing is learning to expand your capacity for resilience, and create space to be present with what is present.
To do that work, we offer you a space of non-judgement (we changed this from "neutral", because life isn't). We work with you to cultivate relative therapeutic safety, promote empathy, and individualize our treatment and approach based on your journey.
Our Mission
We want to help you learn that healing is not a static point, to empower you to flourish, and to support you as you discover your life.
Specialties
Addiction ADHD Anxiety Bipolar Disorder Body Image Chronic Pain Cultural Adjustment Depression Divorce Existential Challenges / Crises Gender Identity Grief and Loss Psychosis & Pre-Psychotic Symptoms Race Based Trauma Racial Identity Relationship Issues Religion or Spirituality Sexual Health Sexuality Stress from Academics Trauma & PTSDInsurance & Payment
In-Network Insurance Plans
Athens Counseling & Psychotherapy, LLC is in network for the following plans:
Aetna Anthem Blue Cross MultiplanPaperwork:
I can provide you with paperwork for reimbursement from your insurance company if you are seeking out-of-network sessions.
NPI Number
1174094726Rates
| First session | $150 |
| Ongoing sessions | $150 |
Locations
Suite 101
Athens, GA 30606
Practice Hours
| Monday | 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday | 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday | 2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
| Friday | -- |
| Saturday | -- |
| Sunday | -- |
Treatment Approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Attachment-based Executive Functions Coaching Psychodynamic Somatic Supportive Trauma FocusedModalities
Couples Family IndividualsAge Groups
Young Adults (18-25) Adults (26-64) Seniors (65+)Communities
Activists First-Gen Immigrants Indigenous Peoples International Kink / BDSM LGBQ+ Neurodiverse People of Color People with Disabilities Polyamorous Trans non-binary gender fluid VeteransMeeting Options
Qualifications
- License(s): GA-CSW006527
More About Us
- Languages Spoken: English
- Race(s): Asian or Asian American, Mixed Race
- Gender(s): Cisgender, Woman
- Sexual Orientation(s): Queer
- Religion(s): Agnostic, Individual Spiritual Practice, Nonreligious