About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Scrutchins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with nine years of clinical experience. She began her career working with incarcerated populations and has carried practical skills from that work into outpatient settings. Her background includes helping people cope with depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma, and attention challenges.
She aims to treat each person with respect and compassion. Gwendolyn uses clear, down-to-earth listening and empathy in sessions.
Background and approach
She focuses on practical strategies that clients can try between meetings. Conversations explore current problems, patterns that keep those problems going, and small steps toward change. She emphasizes collaboration over labels.
Her approach draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, emotionally focused work, EMDR, and motivational interviewing. She adapts tools to fit someone’s needs rather than using a single formula. That flexibility helps when anxiety, mood, trauma, or substance use intersect.
Gwendolyn also brings experience writing treatment plans, progress notes, and administrative reports. That background can help organize care and track progress in straightforward ways. She aims to make therapy understandable and practical for people juggling parenting, work, or health challenges.
People often seek her help for stress, relationship or family concerns, grief, sleep problems, and life transitions. She also works with issues tied to addiction, body image, and coping after abuse or other traumatic events. Gwendolyn welcomes questions and helps people decide what to try first.
Online approaches that focus on action and healing
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that fit their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when avoidance keeps people stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns, which often helps with anxiety, mood, and sleep issues. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to process traumatic memories and the strong emotions tied to them; it can be helpful when past events continue to cause distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist works together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helping and what is not, so the work stays practical and client-centered.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions are simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options offer flexibility while keeping the focus on progress and real-life change.
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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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