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Caroline Paris Martin, Therapist

If I'm looking at a therapist's website—professionally for a referral or personally for a loved one or myself—I want to know two things: 1. Are you qualified? and 2.  Can you help me? In case that's what you're wondering, I'll start there.

 

Yes, I'm qualified. I became a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) after attending the Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate program at Mercer University's Atlanta campus. I earned a Master of Divinity from Emory University's Candler School of Theology.  I include more credentials below, but that's the most important stuff.  

About Me

Yes, I can help you.   I have over a decade of success in helping women make positive transformations in their lives. I'm determined to get you the support you need. I'm also passionate about people finding the right therapist for them, so if my skills and style don't align with your needs, I'll provide you with names of other therapists who may be a better fit.

I'm not just going to ask you, "how do you feel about that?" and then offer nothing in return. While I do care very much about your emotions (and will indeed ask about them!), I will also give honest feedback and offer concrete suggestions on things you can try to help move you in the direction you desire to go.  I'll share insights based off of what you have told me you want for your life,  and I'll point out patterns I notice that don't seem to be serving you.

I integrate kindness into all of our interactions, and I work to facilitate a genuine connection between us. I use empathy and unconditional acceptance to put you at ease and make our appointments one of the safest and uplifting spaces you have experienced. I speak in a personable and warm way, and I use self-disclosure when I think it might help you.

Puppy practicing psychodynamic therapy

NERDY STUFF (Part 1): Theories 

The following is pretty nerdy stuff, but if you're like I am and enjoy the nerdy, this part is for you.
 

I practice mostly psychodynamic and humanistic therapy, which means: I help clients establish insight and understanding into how their past impacts their present; emphasize clients’ potential; and examine how clients find meaning and purpose in life.  I utilize an integrative approach pulling from different theories based off of what I think would best serve each client. 

The theories I most commonly pull from are:

  • Adlerian (focuses on establishing genuine connections with others, examining family/upbringing, challenging and replacing unhelpful thought patterns that fuel suffering, and talking with clients in a way that grants them courage to believe in themselves)

  • Existential (finding and making meaning in life)

  • Mindful Self-Compassion (taking intentional steps to have a mindset of self-compassion)

  • Internal Family Systems (with a special focus on becoming in tune with your core self)  

NERDY STUFF (Part 2): Credentials & Trainings 

I love simple pleasures and trying to live in the present, but by nature I’m a worrier (I’m unfortunately fluent in replaying my most shameful moments in my head).  So I commit to doing things that cultivate peace and mindfulness, I accept  that at any given moment I'm likely overthinking something, and no matter which headspace I'm in, I try to be kind to myself.   

I look forward to helping you be kinder to yourself too.

I’m a paradox (most of us are)

Stressed person doing yoga

(Special thanks to the talented and incredible 

Gemma Correll for the permission to use her work.)

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