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. A Matriarchal Ecosystem. Creative. Light-bringing and Shadow-loving. Human. Whole. Real.

Our Team

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Matthew Shugart, LPC

    Best things: Trauma, neurodiversity, life transitions, and “hippie-dippie spiritual stuff.”

    In network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, Multiplan, UHC/UBH.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Natasha Garland, LPC

    Best things: Social anxiety and perfectionism, grief, depression, queer and trans folks, DBT, EMDR, art and expressive therapies.

    In network with Aetna, Ambetter, BCBS, Medicare, Multiplan, and UHC/UBH.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.