Gwendolyn Scrutchins

Gwendolyn Scrutchins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with nine years of clinical experience. She began by working in correctional settings and has supported people facing depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma, and attention-related concerns. Her background includes work with clients who have experienced physical or emotional abuse and those navigating life changes and grief.

She uses simple, direct listening and shows empathy in sessions. She treats people with respect and avoids stereotyping. Sessions focus on practical steps, talking through difficulties, and building coping skills that fit day-to-day life.

Her day-to-day work draws on several approaches, including cognitive behavioral methods for changing unhelpful thinking, emotion-focused ideas for improving important relationships, and tools that help process traumatic memories. She also uses motivational techniques to support behavior change and acceptance-oriented strategies to help people live with difficult feelings.

Gwendolyn has hands-on experience writing treatment plans and progress notes from her time working in institutional settings. That background informs how she organizes care and tracks goals with clients. She offers straightforward guidance around medication awareness and social skill building when those topics come up.

To begin, she asks people to describe what matters to them now and what practical steps they want to take. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on small, achievable changes that make daily life easier.

How these approaches work online and in sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes where someone wants to move forward despite uncomfortable emotions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence, then building new habits. This approach is often used for depression, anxiety, sleeping problems, and attention-related challenges.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at important relationship patterns and helps people change how they respond emotionally to close others. It can be helpful when intimacy or communication problems are causing ongoing distress.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools are most useful.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the current options before booking. Many people find online work helps fit therapy into a busy day, makes check-ins easier during a lunch break, or reduces travel time. Online sessions can let a person practice new skills in real life between meetings, and therapists can adapt exercises to whatever setting the client has available.