❖ All of our therapists are offering telehealth sessions in place of an office visit if you have been exposed to respiratory illnesses, are feeling ill, are recovering from illness, or feel uncertain about coming to the office for your session.
❖ Tele-health sessions details will be emailed to you at your email on file if a telehealth session is scheduled. We use doxy.me which is a HIPPA compliant service designed for tele-health.
For clients who need or prefer in-person sessions, please note the following:
❖ Our office building will close if orders to do so come from the State of Georgia or the City of Peachtree City. If this closing takes place, you will be notified by your email on file ASAP. During this season of concern, you may want to make it a practice to check your emails prior to attending your appointment.
❖ We are cleaning the waiting areas and offices by wiping down door handles and frequently touched areas with antibacterial and antimicrobial wipes multiple times per day. We are also regularly washing our hands to prevent the spread of germs.
❖ We have opened a second waiting space to the left of the waiting room when you enter the office suite. We ask that if someone is seated in the main waiting area when you arrive, you seat yourself in the other space.
❖ You can also wait in your car or outside. Your therapist will open the front door at the start of your appointment time, allowing you to go straight to their office without opening any doors or sharing space with any other people.
❖ We have also made attempts to stagger appointment times between therapists, space out appointments, and made other arrangements to limit the number of people in the office space at any given time.
❖ We ask that you wash your hands with soap and water in the bathroom as soon as you enter the office suite.
❖ In order to decrease the spread of germs, we also ask that you allow your therapist to open all doors for you except the entrance into our office or bathroom. Likewise, when paying with a card, you can slide or enter your card into the square device and allow your therapist to sign “on file” in place of your signature. These changes will decrease the number of people touching these surfaces.
❖ Please do not come to the office for an in-person session if you or anyone in your home are ill. Please also inform us if anyone in your immediate work environment or child’s classrooms has any respiratory symptoms, or if you have traveled internationally recently.
❖ Until otherwise noted, if you or someone in your family is too ill for us to meet at all, cancellations will be accepted without a time limit or late cancellation fee and rescheduled as your therapist’s availability allows. Our regular cancellation policy will remain in place for cancellations unrelated to illness.
❖ Please note that if your therapist needs to cancel or request telehealth sessions during the coming weeks to protect herself, her family, and her clients, you will be informed with as much notice as possible if a change needs to be made to your appointments. Again, please make it a practice to check your emails/cell before attending your sessions until this season of caution has passed. We will do our best to keep you informed ASAP.
For more information about how to best protect yourself and others from infection visit, coronavirus.gov.
Isabel Groedel is a Licensed Master Social Worker who specializes in supporting adolescents, adults, couples and families in overcoming behavioral and emotional challenges. She is bilingual (English and Spanish) and is trained in EMDR and Emotion Focused Therapy.
My clinical career began with a strong interest in the psychological impact of illness and disability and a master’s degree in medical rehabilitation counseling. Helping people adjust to the unique experiences of medical journeys was powerful and fulfilling– but I soon realized that my clients’ medical needs impacted everyone in their family. Partners, parents, siblings, children: they are all touched by their loved one’s illness or disability. The whole system was in pain and their relationships were fracturing.
Early in in this work I was able to join into the lives of adults with severe and persistent mental illness and help them to fashion wellness and recovery in their own communities and with their own families. I was in the thick of life with men and women having full and robust and connected lives even while facing some of the most challenging brain diseases and it was due significantly to their close family supports. This pushed me to pursue a deeper understanding of family systems. I was lucky to be living in an area which was the birthplace of family systems therapy. I spent several years being mentored and trained by people who have devoted their research and their lives to helping develop strong connected families. This work fundamentally changed how I viewed the world and my own family. Through my time devoted to Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy i not only learned but actually experienced that no one is ever truly alone and we grow best and heal best together.
My interest in counseling originated from a desire to repair broken relationships within my own family. My exploration to seek wholeness and restoration for the emotional wounds of my past began with reading books about how family relationships work and then progressed to my majoring in psychology in college. I began to learn about how we impact each other and how important it is to seek my own emotional health and healing. This led to my desire to not only seek my own counseling but also to pursue counseling as a career. How meaningful and fulfilling would it be to not only heal my own personal hurts and relationships but also to help others do the same?
We offer retreats, workshops, and groups that support our clients and the communities in Fayette and Coweta Counties.
Groups and Workshops are a great way to get support and improve skills in a cost effective manner! Here are the groups that are currently forming:
Couples coming to us, often report needing help with one or more of the following concerns:
The Center for Living Balance is the product of personal and business evolution. Founded by Amy Jaynes in 2016 as a solo counseling practice, the center has always focused on personal and relational well-being. As Amy’s passion for healing relational bonds continued to grow, she became more active in the professional mental health community. She was speaking at local events, serving on boards, and generally spreading the word about the power of healing attachment.
Do you need a speaker for your event or organization? We can bring any of our workshops and seminars to you! 
Staying connected through life’s many stages is challenging work– we help families wade through those disconnected moments to find the path back to connection. We see families who are seeking help with:
Many of our clients spend their days taking care of the needs of other people — often at the expense of their own well-being or needs. We understand (and live!) this unique experience that can create anxiety, depressed mood, increased stress, compassion fatigue, relational distress, and burnout for:
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