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OUR TEAM
Meet the staff at ATCG.
We are dedicated professionals committed to providing the highest quality mental health care.
Our diverse group of counseling therapists, coaches, dieticians and medical support help ensure that we can provide whatever you need.
Ryan Schwerzmann, LMFT
Owner, Clinical Director
Ryan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree from Loyola University in Maryland and a Certificate in Marriage and Family therapy from Mercer University School of Medicine. Ryan has over 15 years of experience treating children, couples and families using an integrated approach focused on helping clients develop an understanding of their relationship patterns and use this awareness to adapt to their present circumstances. His primary interests are in family communication patterns, expression of emotions, self-esteem, adolescence, anxiety disorders and behavior problems. Ryan is also an AAMFT approved supervisor interested in helping MFTs develop integrated and adaptable therapeutic practices.
Ryan is the owner and director of Adaptive Therapy Counseling Group. He is currently the Ethics Committe Chair for the Georgia Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and previously served as the Student and Associate Chair from 2009 -2012. He has worked in several different clinics including the Kennedy Krieger Neurobehavioral Unit, Marcus Autism Center, Atlanta Center for Eating Disorders and Walden Behavioral Care.
Diann Stuart, LAMFT
Diann is Licensed Associate Marriage and Family Therapist having obtained her Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy at Northcentral University. She has done extensive course work in trauma, spirituality, addictions and eating disorders as well as child and adolescent therapy. Diann is driven by a passion and desire to walk alongside hurting people as they uncover and find long term solutions they need to calm their emotional storms and increase their coping skills to better handle their distress and to become their best self!
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Diann assists Ryan and helps to execute the vision of the practice as well as providing therapy to clients. She provides individual and family therapy as well as she leads skill based and experiential groups. Throughout her career Diann has worked in a variety of settings including outpatient facilities that provided both partial hospital programming and intensive outpatient programming; inpatient facilities and private practice facilities.
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Ciara Cook
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a Master's degree in Social Work from Walden University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Oglethorpe University.
I am outgoing and personable, easy to talk to and want you to feel welcome, secure and at ease. I believe therapy is a joint partnership by which we collaborate in order to meet your needs. This will involve some homework at times to assist you with what we address in session.
I use a variety of therapeutic techniques based in a Humanistic approach that aims to help you develop a strong and healthy sense of self, explore your feelings, find meaning, and focus on your strengths. Through our work together we will utilize a variety of methods to assist you with handling challenging emotions, changing negative self-talk, setting boundaries, and overcoming fears while focusing on your strengths, gifts and talents, creating the life you envision.
​My goal is to assist you in building a "toolbox" of skills for you to use that will aid you when you need them.
Therapist
Carol Ann Brannon, MS, RD/LD
Dietician
Carol is a Nutrition Expert with over 25 years experience in healthcare, education, individual counseling, and feeding and eating disorders. She has a B.S. degree in Dietetics from Carson-Newman College and a M.S. degree in Nutrition Education from Georgia State University. She is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian in private practice in the northeast metro-Atlanta area of Georgia. In her private practice she guides individuals and families, particularly children with special needs (ASD, ADHD, learning differences, Down Syndrome, cerebral palsy) with science-based medical nutrition therapy. Her specialty areas include: food allergies, Celiac disease, GI disorders, diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndromes.
Carol Ann has completed and is certified in the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding, Food Chaining©, and holds a Certificate in Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. She is also on staff at the Robert D. Fowler YMCA and a Board member of Kids Enabled, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering parents of children with learning differences (www.kidsenabled.com). She has authored of several Nutrition Dimension courses and EDmodules (www.nutritiondimension.com), as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles.
On a personal note, being mom to four active teenagers, 3 of which have special needs, is Carol Ann’s most fulfilling role.
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Esther Hunter, LAMFT
Associate Therapist
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Tamira Fitzjohn
Medical Billing Specialist