Hi, I’m Kalyn.
I’m a licensed therapist in Atlanta, Georgia who specializes in therapy for women of color with attachment trauma, eating and body image issues, and perfectionism.
I believe it’s my life’s work to help people feel seen.
Yes, I’m a licensed clinical social worker with expertise in relational and attachment trauma and creative body-rooted care, but I’m also a first-generation, Afro-Caribbean woman (she/her) who knows what it feels like to feel invisible in a room full of people.
I can connect with what it’s like to find your best refuge in a journal, to pour yourself into work and projects to protect from pain, to find solace in solitude where rejection cannot find you. I get what it’s like to give to everyone, and have little left for yourself.
I also know what it feels like to let all those protective strategies go. Through my years of intensive work and training in Collegiate Mental Health, Collegiate Athletics, and Private Practice, I’ve seen EMDR help clients unblock the path to deep healing, narrative and somatic therapies help clients get back into their bodies, and relational approaches rooted in attachment work help clients form the kind of relationships that heal.
If this sounds like you, I celebrate you for taking a step to move towards a life that feels like exhale, like support, and true care. I’m excited to help you on your journey.
My Approach
My goal as a therapist is simple: use effective tools to help clients feel seen, both in and outside of therapy. I find that clients thrive when safety, relationship, and tangible change is the basis of therapy. I aim to help you build the skills and capacity to be comfortable in your body. Then, together, we journey to the source of your pain, give voice to your needs, and transform this insight into sustainable change.
Relational
We experience our hurt in relationships, and the same goes for healing. In therapy, we will attune not only to your past relationship experiences, but also the one unfolding in the therapy room, as a site to co-create transformative connections from the past to the future you hope for.
Trauma-Informed
If you don’t feel safe, you can’t feel seen. In our work, we’ll delicately identify the ways you learned to protect against the harms you may have experienced before. My training has supported nuanced preparedness to support clients with trauma in their stories. This creates a path to gently co-creating the safety you need to explore and heal.
Culturally-Centered
Your identities are not an add-on. My goal is to support you, the whole person, and all the worlds, cultures, roles, identities, and positionalities you possess. I use an intersectional approach to ensure there is space held for all of you, with attuned awareness of the needs of those in the margins—members of the BIPOC, LGBTQ, disable/differently-abled, and/or neurodiverse communities, as well as the spiritually, bodily, and socioeconomically othered.
What I Help With
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Attachment Trauma
Get to the root & co-create safe connections.
We’ll unpack: early-life relational trauma, complex PTSD, insecure attachment styles, emotional neglect, and strained mother-daughter relationships.
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Perfectionism
Take up space & untie your ‘work’ from your ‘self-worth’.
Let’s tackle: High-pressure professions, college & graduate school, athletics and sport, impostor syndrome, performance anxiety and pressur,e, and burnout.
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Food & Body Image Issues
Release shame & build a safe relationship with food & your body. We’ll unpack: Body dissatisfaction, strained relationships with food and movement, disordered eating recovery, and radical body care.
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Relationship Concerns
Grow your capacity to hold relationships that heal. We’ll address: Family issues, strained mother-daughter relationships, dating and romantic relationships, and friendships.
Who I Help
Client Specialties
Women in High-Pressure Spaces & Roles (high-performance careers, collegiate and graduate settings, athletes, caregivers, leaders, entrepreneurs)
Black Women & Women of Color
Women/Female Athletes (Collegiate, Professional, & Olympic)
LGBTQIA+ Individuals, inclusive of the spectrum of gender identities, relational orientations, and sexualities
Neuro-Affirming Care and Support for Individuals with Late-Diagnosed ADHD and Learning Differences
How I Help
Modalities & Approaches
Relational-Cultural Therapy (RCT)
Attachment Therapy & Interpersonal Process (IPT)
EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
Psychodynamic Therapy
ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Black-Feminist Therapy and Liberation Psychology
Narrative Therapy
Mindfulness and Somatic-Based Approaches
“To be seen is to be known and witnessed in the ways we crave, so that we can heal and thrive as our truest, fullest selves.”
Education & Training
Education & Licensure
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Master of Social Work
The University of Georgia, Bachelor of Science in Psychology + Bachelor of Arts in Journalism
State of Georgia, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, CSW008278
Training
Full Foundational EMDR Training, Institute of Creative Mindfulness
Emory University Counseling & Psychological Services, Post-MSW Fellowship
Duke University Counseling & Psychological Services, Graduate Practicum Program