Our Team
Jennifer Robinson, LMFT
Jennifer’s passion is to partner with silent sufferers to help bring hope back into their lives and move them from just existing in life to actually living. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Child and Family Development at The University of Georgia in 2005. She went on to earn her Master’s of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Kentucky in 2007. Jennifer has worked in various diverse settings including intensive in-home therapy for traumatized children, adolescents dealing with substance abuse issues to most recently working with substance abuse in adult patients. She was the Manager at The Ridge Behavioral Health and helped develop a Partial Hospitalization Program that included sober living when she lived in Kentucky. Prior to working at Alana Recovery Center, Jennifer was the Lead Trauma Therapist at Mt. Sinai Wellness Center, a residential facility in North Georgia. Jennifer has performed individual, family, couples and group therapy throughout her career. Further, Jennifer is trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Systems Therapy, Parent Child Interactional Therapy, Recovery Dynamics, Matrix model, and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). Jennifer also focuses on the importance of the 12 steps, and where applicable, incorporates this into her therapy.
Jennifer is currently certified in the basic, advanced and enhanced models of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and can provide the use of ART with patients during their individual sessions. ART is an evidenced based form of psychotherapy that utilizes back and forth eye movements to help clients address problems such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as other mental health problems (e.g., anxiety, OCD, depression, anger management, substance abuse…). The primary benefit of this therapy is that it usually takes 1-5 sessions to help reduce the pain of past trauma. It is a science based therapy and is successful by moving information from the limbic system in the brain (fight or flight) to the prefrontal cortex where the patient has control over when and how he/she would like to think about a particular traumatic event. ART states “We say keep the knowledge, lose the pain, because you will keep the facts. You will only lose the negative images, sensations and symptoms”. Jennifer has had a high success in patients being able to move through their trauma so they are able to focus on sobriety and recovery.
“My passion, experience and care will allow you to move forward toward a meaningful life as you create the best version of your authentic self.”
— Jennifer Robinson