Healing the Fragmented Self: Trauma-Informed Counseling in Cumming, GA and Online
You’ve done your best to hold it all together. But some days, it feels like part of you is stuck in survival mode — anxious, reactive, disconnected. You’re not broken. You’re fragmented… and healing is possible.
I safely offer both in-office and tele-counseling (online) sessions.
Please contact me to set up your appointment by calling 770-203-9060,
or click the button below to send me a direct message.
I safely offer both in-office and tele-counseling (online) sessions.
Please contact me to set up your appointment by calling 770-203-9060,
or click the button below to send me a direct message.
Counseling and Therapy for Distressed Couples, Frustrated Parents, and Overwhelmed Individuals
Life doesn’t always go as planned. Relationships get strained. Parenting becomes exhausting. Emotions build up until you feel stuck, angry, or completely overwhelmed. Whether you’re facing conflict in your marriage, feeling worn down by parenting challenges, or struggling with anxiety, grief, or past trauma—you don’t have to face it alone.
At Pathways to Change, I offer a compassionate, down-to-earth space where you can explore what’s really going on beneath the surface. We’ll work together to identify root causes, build healthy communication patterns, and begin healing emotional wounds—both recent and long-held.
At Pathways to Change, I offer a compassionate, down-to-earth space where you can explore what’s really going on beneath the surface. We’ll work together to identify root causes, build healthy communication patterns, and begin healing emotional wounds—both recent and long-held.
At Pathways to Change, Dorice Neir, LPC, integrates the groundbreaking Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) model to help you gently connect with your inner parts, release survival-based patterns, and live from a more centered, resilient self.
Trauma Therapy That Goes Beyond Talk
If you’ve ever thought, “Why did I react like that?” or felt like a part of you was hijacking your emotions, you may be experiencing the lingering effects of unresolved trauma. I specialize in Trauma-Informed Therapy, a powerful approach that helps you recognize and respond to the inner parts of yourself that developed during painful or threatening experiences.
Together, we’ll explore:
How trauma creates survival-based “parts” (like fight, flight, freeze, submit)
How to unblend from these parts and reconnect with your grounded, thinking self
How to respond to triggers with empathy and awareness—not shame or blame
This work is deeply healing—and you don’t have to relive your trauma to experience change.
If you’ve ever thought, “Why did I react like that?” or felt like a part of you was hijacking your emotions, you may be experiencing the lingering effects of unresolved trauma. I specialize in Trauma-Informed Therapy, a powerful approach that helps you recognize and respond to the inner parts of yourself that developed during painful or threatening experiences.
Together, we’ll explore:
How trauma creates survival-based “parts” (like fight, flight, freeze, submit)
How to unblend from these parts and reconnect with your grounded, thinking self
How to respond to triggers with empathy and awareness—not shame or blame
This work is deeply healing—and you don’t have to relive your trauma to experience change.
Counseling Services
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Get Started: The Journey Begins With You
Together we will collaborate to meet you where you are and support you in moving further toward your health, wellness and relational goals.
Testimonials
I began seeing Dorice Neir after losing my partner to cancer. It was my first experience with a counselor and I hoped that I would find some solace in speaking with a professional. While there are many pyschotherapists in my area who advertise qualifications in grief counseling, I found that Dorice could truly empathize as she had experienced a similar loss. As family and friends quickly moved on with their lives, Dorice offered a safe place to simply continue to talk about my loved one. She helped me to mediate some of the anger and sadness surrounding the conditions of my partner's illness and death, and to express my continuing concerns as I adjust to life without him. Always kind and supportive, Dorice remembered the facts of our story and thoughtfully engaged in conversation. I feel blessed to have found Dorice and I consider her a dear friend. 
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Female Client - Name is Confidential
Dorice did a yearly evaluation for me. I went to her for a check-up of my mind. After my first visit she suggested 6 sessions. We completed those and possibly a couple more. Each session I came away with a calmer feeling deep within. Things I didn't realize had a hold on me and now I was able to see them - feel them - and let them go. I am so much better having had my time with Dorice.
Female Client - Name is Confidential
Dorice is a wonderful therapist and extremely easy to talk to. She has helped me immensely in dealing with my anxiety and working through it. I always feel so much better leaving sessions than when I walked in!
Male Client - Name is Confidential
In our second year of marriage we realized we needed help in communicating. Everyone tells you it's key, but what they don't give you are ways to actually handle negative thoughts you have about each other. Dorice gave us the tools to work through very hard and very real emotions and thoughts that seemed like we wouldn't be able to overcome. We are four years now into our marriage and use the tools she taught us almost everyday. We are closer now than ever before and are incredibly thankful for her guidance, therapy and love she showed us. We both felt like she was a familial grandmother type figure for us who truly cared about us getting a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other.
Married Couple - Names are Confidential