About Judith
Judith Cantwell brings four decades of counseling experience to her practice in Georgia. She uses a thoughtful, mostly cognitive approach to help people with work stress, relationships, and self-esteem. Judith describes her aim as helping people reconnect with joy and move past thoughts that hold them back.
Her style is warm and direct. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps. Judith listens for patterns in thinking and behavior, and she offers strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts into more useful ones.
Background and approach
Judith has worked with adults across a wide age range and has long experience with relationship concerns and career‑related stress. She also addresses issues such as coping with life changes, caregiver strain, substance concerns, and challenges tied to family of origin. Clients may find useful support on topics like communication problems, commitment and infidelity, and managing guilt or shame.
She also helps people facing blended family issues, aging and geriatric concerns, and aftermaths of disaster or high‑stress jobs. Judith holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC, and has combined counseling with coaching work focused on life and work balance. Her approach aims to be collaborative so people leave sessions with clear, practical next steps.
Approaches that guide online work and how they help
Judith draws mainly from cognitive approaches that focus on the connection between thoughts and feelings. This involves noticing unhelpful thought patterns and practicing alternative ways of thinking, which can ease anxiety and boost self‑esteem. She also uses coaching techniques for work and life issues. Those methods focus on setting clear goals, creating action steps, and tracking progress to make changes feel achievable. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Judith works with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It may reduce travel time and allow for more flexible scheduling. Confirm the therapist's current session formats before booking so you know which options are offered. Many people appreciate that remote sessions let them keep continuity of care when routines are disrupted or when coordinating around work and caregiving responsibilities.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English