Emily Giattina, LCSW

Emily is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW005867) specializing in working with womxn across the lifespan on concerns related to identity development, relationship challenges, recovery from substance use disorders, shame resilience, perfectionism, high demand jobs, relational trauma/vicarious trauma, and life transitions— career changes, breakups/divorce, changing family/work demands. Emily also has experience working with parents/partners as they navigate the recovery process of an adult child/partner who has a substance use disorder or mental health concern.  Additionally, Emily works with individuals who are grieving the loss of a loved one from suicide and/or unintentional drug overdose.

Along with seeing individuals, Emily also sees couples who are interested in premarital counseling. Emily is trained facilitator of Prepare/Enrich, which is the leading relationship inventory utilized by relationship counselors across the country. 

Following her passion for wanting to serve others, Emily graduated from the University of Georgia with her Masters in Social Work and has worked in a variety of clinical settings in the Atlanta area.  Upon graduation, Emily worked at Ridgeview as an admissions counselor. She then transitioned to MARR and worked as a primary counselor where she honed her expertise and passion for addiction and recovery.  Before transitioning to private practice, Emily served as the Dual Diagnosis Assistant Director at Skyland Trail where she worked with individuals that have a substance use disorder as well as a co-occurring diagnosis like major depression, generalized anxiety, schizophrenia, complex trauma, and disordered eating. At Skyland, Emily also provided supervision to therapists.

Emily’s goal in therapy is to help create a safe place where clients can show up authentically and explore parts of themselves that they have kept hidden. Through values exploration, mindfulness, meaning making, and cognitive exercises, it is Emily’s hope that clients will begin to experience freedom from old cognitive and behavioral patterns that have kept them stuck and feeling unfulfilled. 

Emily considers herself a lifelong learner, so in her free time she is often exploring new hobbies/interests or going on adventures with her pup, Lucy.