About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Scrutchins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with nine years of experience. She began her work in correctional settings and now brings that practical background to community mental health. She focuses on clear, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by mood, behavior, or life shifts.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and symptoms linked to bipolar conditions. She also supports those coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Her work includes attention to relationship strain, intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. Her style centers on empathy and active listening. Sessions are grounded in respect and a nonjudgmental approach.
She avoids stereotypes and tailors conversations to each person’s real concerns. Clinically she uses a mix of methods to match the situation. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and shift habits.
Emotion-focused ideas can help when emotions feel confusing or overwhelming. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles are woven in to help people live toward their values even when symptoms persist. She also has experience with processing treatment plans and clinical documentation from correctional settings, which informs how she organizes care and tracks progress.
Gwendolyn aims to help people find practical steps they can use between sessions. She invites potential clients to reach out and begin a simple matching process to see if they are a good fit.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Gwendolyn uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and routines. CBT often focuses on practical exercises and step-by-step behavior experiments to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.She also incorporates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify personal values and take action that matters despite uncomfortable feelings. This approach can be useful for ongoing challenges like ADHD-related frustrations or chronic stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gwendolyn collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adapts techniques as progress is made.
Online therapy is offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging can be helpful for brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing encouragement between scheduled meetings.
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What this therapist 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
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