Lane Gormley, EdS,LPC,NCC

Lane Gormley, EdS,LPC,NCC

Credentials and Professional Experience:

Lane Gormley is a Counselor and Psychotherapist with MS and EdS degrees in Professional Counseling. She is licensed in the State of Georgia as a Professional Counselor. She is also a National Certified Counselor and a member of the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia as well as the American Mental Health Counselors Association. Lane is also certified by the National Board For Certified Counselors as a Distance Counselor and practices online, using Skype, and by telephone when necessary. Before starting her clinical practice, Lane received a Ph.D. in literature with an emphasis on the psychoanalysis of literary texts.

Lane completed her Master’s Internship at the Northside Hospital Recovery Center where she worked with patients recovering from alcohol and drug addictions. Her 300-hour EdS internship was at Ridgeview Institute in Adult Psychiatric and Addiction Services.

Lane has worked as a Clinical Therapist at Emory University on The Heart Failure Study which, co-sponsored by the American Heart Association, examined the effect of 12 sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on depression in patients who had experienced heart failure. Lane has also worked part-time in the inpatient Behavioral Health Services crisis unit at Dekalb Medical Center; and Ridgeview Institute’s inpatient Psychiatric and Addiction Services. Lane currently works in a private practice setting where she counsels individuals, couples, and families.

Approach:

Lane is an Adlerian psychotherapist who works with clients to achieve a conscious understanding of process. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Behavior Modification (CBM), traditional psychoanalysis, and Imago therapy to help her clients to change what they want to change about their lives and relationships. Although fluent in several methodologies, she tries to enlist as many of her clients’ individual strengths as possible in order to facilitate their healing process.

Areas of Expertise:

Lane’s areas of specialization include life changes, couples and their relationships, addiction, dual diagnosis, depression and mood disorders, stress management, crisis, and trauma. She writes about her group practice in “Through the Looking Glass: The Facilitation of Mirroring in Group Process” which appeared in the September, 2008 issue of The Journal for Specialists in Group Work. This article examines the power of group process in treating addictions and other mental health diagnoses. A recent article, “They Can Do It, and You Can Help: Teaching Children About Personal Process” will be featured in the November/December issue of The Mother magazine which, published in the United Kingdom, is read in over 40 countries worldwide.

A Personal Statement:

“I believe in you. I trust you to do your inner work, to go on your life’s journey, to become the person you intend to be. There is no problem that you cannot solve; and I will be happy to assist you in that process.”

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