Georgia Counseling Center

The Georgia Counseling Center, headed by Ben Neal, LPC, is dedicated to helping people in Cherokee County and the greater Atlanta surrounding areas through counseling and treatment.  Georgia Counseling Center specializes in Forensic Counseling, Family Counseling, troubled teens, ODD, ADHD, Depression, and substance abuse.  Please contact the counseling center at any time by calling Ben Neal at 678-231-2031 or email GACounselingctr@aol.com. 

The Georgia Counseling Center has a unique style in helping families and individuals in the community overcome issues they are struggling with. 

 Contact our counseling receptionist at 678-231-2031 or email gacounselingctr@aol.com and one of our counselors will call you back or contact you by email. 

Georgia Counseling Center helps counsel people from all walks of life regardless of geographical location, background, age, beliefs, or ethnicity. Should you need help, please feel free to contact us directly at our Client Helpline between the hours of 9AM – 9 PM, Monday through Friday, at 678-231-2031. 

Counseling can bring change and well-being to your life. It applies insights and techniques from human development, coaching, psychology, and psychotherapy.

Counseling takes a positive and practical approach to behavior, relationships, and emotions. It respects your values and identity. It strives to promote well-being at home, among friends, and at work (and to treat pathology if it is present).

In counseling you are not a diagnosis but a whole person with individual values, experiences, insights, personality, skills, ambitions, desires, needs, relationships, stressors, and other life circumstances. The counseling process examines how all of these things interconnect. It helps you take advantage of your strengths, minimize your weaknesses, and learn new techniques for achieving the balance, results, and well-being you want in your life.

Does counseling work? Countless people have found that it does. An August 27, 2002 article in the New York Times described several scientific studies that show that not only is "talk therapy" effective against conditions like depression and anxiety disorders, but its effects can be observed in brain chemistry. ("Like Drugs, Talk Therapy Can Change Brain Chemistry,", Richard A. Friedman, M.D.)

Please feel free to call me at (678) 231-2031 with any questions you'd like to discuss.