About Caryn
Caryn Vandergriff is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people navigate addiction, trauma, mood disorders, and attention challenges. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about painful events, troubling behaviors, and questions about identity. Conversations are practical and paced to each persons needs.
Caryn uses a client-centered way of working that keeps the persons goals in view. She blends that with cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness tools are offered to help manage intense feelings and bring attention back to the present moment. Her experience includes supporting people through trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and substance use concerns. She also helps with co-occurring issues such as dissociation, communication problems, and feelings of emptiness.
Additional focus areas include autism and Asperger syndrome, gender dysphoria, and navigating nontraditional sexual cultures. Caryn aims to make therapy straightforward. Sessions typically involve setting clear goals, trying small experiments between visits, and checking what works.
Progress is measured in practical steps people can use day to day. She practices in Georgia and brings four years of clinical experience to her work. The LPC credential stands for Licensed Professional Counselor and reflects her role as a mental health professional.
Sessions are conducted in English and are shaped around each persons situation.
How Caryn blends client-centered work with CBT and mindfulness
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and offers simple tools to try something different. It is useful for mood issues, anxiety, and habits tied to substance use.Client-Centered Therapy places the persons needs and goals at the center of sessions. The therapist listens without judgment and supports people in finding their own solutions, which is helpful for identity questions and decision points.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention skills to notice feelings and reduce reactivity. These practices can make intense moments more manageable and improve day-to-day coping.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and what feels useful in real life. That exploration may involve trying different tools and checking what helps between sessions.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy day, support shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also allows regular progress checks and exercises to continue between visits without changing the core therapeutic process.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English