Welcome to
Tending the gap and the overlap between psychotherapy and healing arts for clients, clinicians, and community Our work:
To facilitate connection with your innate and free-flowing capacity for deeper healing.
Our Vision:
To contribute to a world where we all know ourselves more fully, care for ourselves and others more freely, take up space more confidently, and live more joyfully and abundantly from a place of purpose, compassion, and belonging.
Our Values:Deeper and more confident connection to our truest selves. Right-sized and balanced mutual responsibility and care for one another. Investing in connection and community bonds. Honoring diversity and wholeness. Recognizing and challenging the systems we swim in. Ever-opening to spiritual beliefs and practices that foster support, thriving, and meaning-making.
Our Vibe:Trauma-focused. Affirming. Holistic and integrative. Somatic. Spiritual. Systems-based. Present-moment oriented. Curious and compassionate. Earth-rooted. Decolonizing. Anti-racist. Liberatory. Evidence-based and bespoke. Both-and. Tattooed. Barefoot. Witchy. Ethical. Grounded. Seasonally attuned. High standards and full of grace. Dreamers. Skeptics. Abundance-inviting. Ease-aligned hard workers. Matriarchal Ecosystem. Creative. Light-bringing and Shadow-loving. Human. Whole. Real.
Our Team
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Kaleigh McAfee, AMFT
Best things: Family-of-origin & attachment issues, identity, self-esteem, grief, spiritual exploration, trauma, veterans, IFS
Kaleigh is in network with Aetna, can bill in network for BCBS, and is available for virtual sessions with clients throughout Georgia.
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Laura Joplin, LMSW
Best things: Queer and trans folks, somatic-focused therapies, yoga and meditation, IFS, neurodivergence, psychedelic prep and integration and grief
In network with Aetna.
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Matthew Shugart, LPC
Best things: Trauma, neurodiversity, life transitions, and “hippie-dippie spiritual stuff.”
In network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, Multiplan, UHC/UBH. -
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Julie Lane, LPC
Best things: grief and loss, chronic illness and complex medical issues, walking alongside folks facing end-of-life issues and their caregivers, ADHD, OCD, depression, and anxiety
Julie is currently in network with Aetna BCBS, Medicare, and UHC.
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Jennifer Green, LMSW
Best things: Anxiety, stress, perfectionism, relationship challenges, young adults
Jennifer is in network with Aetna, Taylor Benefits, and can bill in network for BCBS. She sees clients in our Thomasville office and virtually throughout Georgia.
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Kelley Collins, LPC
Best things: Art therapy, narrative therapy, trauma, ACT, somatic, holistic and integrative therapies.
In network with Ambetter, BCBS, UHC/UBH and Medicare.
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Natasha Garland, LPC
Best things: Social anxiety and perfectionism, grief, depression, queer and trans folks, DBT, EMDR, art and expressive therapies.
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Megan Nare, ERYT500
Best things: using yoga to help you find rest, nourish your nervous system, integrate the work you’re doing in therapy, and gift yourself some luxurious self-care.
Megan offers virtual yoga classes and in person workshops free to all to Align Wellness clients and open to the public.
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Brawner Raymond, Whole Hearted Life Coach
Best things: Mindfulness, embodiment, somatic practices (including yoga, meditation and breathwork), perfectionism, anxiety, burnout, life transitions, career challenges/corporate drama, highly sensitive people and nervous systems
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Melanie Storrusten, LCSW, ACS
Best things: Clinical supervision and career mentoring, liberatory and decolonizing approaches, somatic techniques and integrating alternative healing modalities, rituals, depth work and trauma.
Our Services
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Psychotherapy
HOLISTIC AND INTEGRATIVE THERAPY
The core of our identity and offerings at Align: holistic and integrative psychotherapy, with a focus on somatic practices, trauma-trained clinicians, and here-and-now processing.
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Groups and Workshops
EXPANDING BEYOND INDIVIDUAL HEALING
From therapy groups to book clubs, mindful walks to seasonal workshops, grief rituals to community gatherings, we are intentionally creating more spaces to heal, together.
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Coaching
LIFE COACHING AND CAREER MENTORSHIP
We offer both Whole-Hearted Life Coaching with Brawner Raymond, and Career Mentorship for holistic and integrative service providers and small business owners with Melanie Storrusten, LCSW.
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Clinical Supervision
CLINICAL SUPERVISION AND CONSULTATION
Melanie Storrusten, LCSW provides Clinical Supervision for folks seeking full licensure in Georgia and Florida and Consultation for folks anywhere. Click below for more info on my supervision style and philosophy. -
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Yoga
SOMATIC PRACTICES TO SUPPORT YOUR THERAPEUTIC WORK
Megan Nare, ERYT-500 leads our virtual yoga class on Monday nights. This class is intentionally designed to support therapeutic work, and is open to all. FREE for Align clients. Many of our therapists are also trained yoga teachers and weave yoga, meditation, and breathwork into their offerings.
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Ritual
MEANING MAKING AND SPIRITUAL CONNECTION
Whether ritual is to you a profound interaction with powers greater than us or a symbolic metaphor taking tangible form, they are impactful tools for healing, as they invite us into the deeper spaces where words can’t quite capture what is happening.
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Resources
GUIDED MEDITATIONS, WORKBOOKS, AND OTHER OFFERINGS
A (mostly free) collection of guided meditations and other offerings to supplement your work with us, or just as our gift to you.
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Online Community
THE TENDED THRESHOLD
A substack space for essays and community interaction on topics related to our niche areas of interest and work. Hubs for general mental health, new therapists, and practice owners.
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Education
CONTINUING EDUCATION FOR THERAPISTS AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION
Live and on-demand online courses for general mental health education and CEUs for therapists from our particular set of skills and expertise.
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Practicum/Internship
AN INTENTIONAL THERAPIST TRAINING PROGRAM
We are currently piloting our practicum and internship training program during the 2026-2027 school year. We anticipate opening the doors to few additional students in the Fall of 2027.
