Stuart Pearson

Welcome. I am a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and have been a therapist for 9 years. I currently offer individual, couples, and group therapy services for adults and couples on an outpatient basis (telehealth only). Therapy is my second career. I served in the US Army on active duty for three years with service in Afghanistan in 2010. After departing from active duty, I continued to serve another 6 years in the Georgia Army National Guard while I completed graduate school and met requirements for licensure as a professional counselor. Prior to working at Emory, I worked exclusively as a therapist with a private practice in Carrollton, Georgia. While I was working in private practice, I also worked as a group facilitator in the Accountability Court program for Drug and Alcohol offenses in Carroll County. The project and purpose of psychotherapy and counseling is to identify what is habitual and automatic about your thinking and behavior, and thus, for you to turn that self-awareness into intentionality. To be of service to you, I will lean primarily on Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). To give you an idea of what to expect, here are four main efforts that I believe apply broadly to either group or individual psychotherapy and counseling. You will hopefully: At this point, I am getting close to 10,000 hours of seated therapy experience with other human beings. My humbling experience has taught me, over and over, that relationships forged in psychotherapy can be extraordinarily complicated, unique, and challenging. Simultaneously, each one is equally full of astonishing potential. I’ve been trusted to accompany human beings through some of the darkest and most painful moments of their lives, those who’ve made the seemingly impossible decision to let go of their substances, and those who’ve needed help to find a path. I am immensely and unendingly grateful for each person who has enlisted me as an ally in making their own path and inhabiting a life of ownership and belonging. If you're interested, I'd be grateful to keep you company.