DAMASCUS ROAD COUNSELING, LLC

Kim M McMillan, LPC works with adults to help navigate through life's challenges. Kim offers individual counseling services for adults, age 18 and over, that are tailored to each clients' specific needs. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, mood disorder, or questions of faith, Kim is here to help support you and work with you to meet your counseling goals.

CBT therapy is a psychological treatment that has been demonstrated to be effective for a range of problems including depression, anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, OCD, sleep issues, and other chronic and severe mental health disorders.

ERP therapy is a highly effective, evidenced based type of CBT primarily used to treat OCD.  ERP is recognized as the gold standard treatment for OCD.  It works by having individuals gradually face fears (exposure) and refrain from performing rituals or compulsions (response prevention), which helps the brain "rewire" and learn to tolerate anxiety and reduce the need for rituals.  

IFS therapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz posits that the psyche is made of an "internal family" of subpersonalities or "parts".  IFS therapy aims to heal wounded "parts" and restore mental and emotional balance.  IFS therapy is used to treat a wide range of mental health issues including trauma, anxiety, and depression.

We understand that life can be busy and it is not always easy to make it to in-person therapy sessions. That is why we offer teletherapy services that allow you to connect with our licensed therapist from the comfort of your own home. Our teletherapy sessions are secure, private, and convenient.

Faith based counseling offers a safe place to explore your faith, ask tough questions, heal from spiritual abuse, or focus on spiritual formation.  Kim holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Christian Counseling, and is a certified Elijah House counselor.  Kim offers a non-judgmental environment for people of all faiths to come and explore beliefs, gain greater spiritual insights, and help promote and nurture a healthy relationship with God, yourself, and others.

Kim has worked for over 15 years specializing in the treatment of Bipolar Disorder.  Whether you have a new diagnosis, or have been diagnosed for a long time, you can benefit from working with Kim to create a personalized management plan that will help you to enjoy stability and quality of life.  You will be empowered with the education, support, resources, and tools necessary to overcome the stigma of Bipolar Disorder, and the bipolar battle.  Hope is just a call away: 404-323-8933.

Are you having a hard time finding core energy, getting quality sleep, finding motivation or interest in the things you used to enjoy?  Kim will assist you in taking one small step at a time to find vitality and hope.  Kim is highly trained and experienced in using CBT therapy, which is the gold standard therapy for treating depression.  Kim also networks with medical doctors as needed to create a team treatment plan for reducing treatment resistant depression.

Anxiety is a normal human experience that everyone has from time to time, but when it becomes chronic and interrupting quality of life, it can become debilitating.  Anxiety can be experienced in many different ways, such as nervousness, panic, OCD, social anxiety, distractibility, racing thoughts, bodily pain, and often accompanies depression.  Kim will assist you in learning coping skills, relaxations skills, and mindfulness skills to help reduce debilitating anxiety symptoms.  Kim is highly trained and experienced in using CBT therapy, which is a highly effective therapy for treating anxiety.  

Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that can interfere with a person's ability to cope and can cause negative effects on mental health, as well as on physical, social, emotional, and professional life.  Kim uses a combination of TF-CBT, IFS, Narrative Therapy, and spiritual integration (based upon client approval) to help heal from the negative and painful patterns of the past and offer hope for the future.  

We live in a society and culture of surmounting and debilitating stress.  Stress negatively impacts our minds, time, energy, relationships, families, careers, and finances.  Stress management offers the tools needed to live above the pressures of life, rather than underneath the pain and pressures of stress and tension.  Stress is often the root cause of many relationship problems, health/mental health problems, as well as sociological problems.  Kim is a certified stress management professional.  Take charge of your life with stress management and turn pressure into progress.  

Whether you are a college student, domestic engineer, professional working outside of the home, minister, or missionary, there is a common complaint often made: I just do not have enough time!  Time management does not expand the day, as we often wish we could, but instead is helps to provide tools to make the very most of your 24 hour day by taking into account priorities, values, and deadlines in a realistic context.

Anger Management empowers individuals to become educated and aware of personal anger management style and personal anger triggers in order to gain skills and tools to help with emotional regulation and have greater self-control over anger symptoms.

Therapy focuses on assisting clients with the emotional, mental, and relational aspects of muti-cultural transitions and the unique aspects surrounding multicultural living.

Family counseling at Damascus Road Counseling is offered only in the context of conjoint individual therapy.  Kim recognizes that some clients would like for their spouse or partner, extended family, or close friends to join them in therapy from time to time. When a client who is in individual therapy requests a family therapy session, and after it has been approved by the counselor, the appointment will be an in office session, where the focus will be on the individual goals of the client, in the context of a family session.  Family members understand that they are not clients of Damascus Road Counseling, but are there fully to help their loved one meet individual therapy goals.

Kim is a teacher at heart.  She has over 20 years of experience in speaking and teaching at churches, corporations, workshops, private clubs and events.  

Please call Kim at 404-323-8933 to schedule a booking.