Our Counselors and Coaches
Chantel Cohen Licensed Therapist / Certified Business Coach
Chantel Cohen is a therapist/ life coach for individuals; an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) couples counselor, and an executive communications coach/facilitator. She assists clients with self-improvement and career advancement. Her clients include individuals, couples, and groups in corporate and therapeutic settings.
After earning her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, Ms. Cohen worked as a program specialist for individuals with psychiatric and physical challenges. She then moved to New York City, where she earned a master’s degree and coaching certification in executive coaching and counseling from Columbia University. Her work with individuals and their families at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York was focused on counseling young adults who had issues with depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, and ADHD.
Ms. Cohen’s work as an executive communications coach and facilitator has given her the opportunity to work with individuals and facilitate teams in corporate settings. She develops written and oral communication strategies, feedback and decision-making protocols, and presentation strategies. Her work also includes working with assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the DISC.
Currently, Chantel owns and operates CWC Coaching and Therapy in Atlanta, Georgia. Her clients are from all walks of life, but she’s worked extensively with couples in relationship distress and individuals who have anxiety, ADHD, and depression. She’s also coached many individuals looking to make a career transition, turbo-charge their career, and enhance their workplace communication. Her corporate clients include the Coca-Cola Company, Clark Atlanta University, Google, CARE, Clarkston Development Faction (CDF), Discovery Channel, Eastern TV-NY and Talentedly – New York office, as well as other corporations.
Genie Sockel Certified Life Coach / Relationship Coach
Are you ready to invest… in Yourself?
What could you enjoy on a powerfully-driven journey of self-propelled, meaningful success? Whether you are searching for work that allows your full expression, balancing your parenting and work priorities, claiming a vibrant, healthy life, or finding and keeping the love of your life, Genie will help you get what you want. Whatever it is.
Clients come to Genie not for a sympathetic ear, but for an idea and action partner. Genie will roll up her sleeves to innovatively offer the broadest, even wildest, ideas to spur sustained action and new ways of being. With these specific actions, you build the traction and momentum to make progress with lifelong dreams. Meanwhile, your thinking becomes more nimble and you react to life’s challenges from your core values.
What do you do? You show up with determination, honesty, and a willingness to say what you really, really, deeply want. Oh, and, be ready to do it.
One of her clients recently shared, “Genie is great! She is easy to understand, easy to follow, and very easy to talk to. She’s my Dr. Phil and Oprah.”
Prior to her role as a life coach, Genie was a workplace communication coach for the last 17 years. Before that, she practiced employment law in Chicago. Genie received her law degree from Georgetown and her B.A. in Psychology from Yale. Genie and her husband live in Morningside with their two teenage children and their dog, Seamus.
So, are you ready to invest? If so, book a 30-minute, complimentary coaching meeting so you can talk with Genie yourself.
REBECCA BECKWITH, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker
For over 20 years, Rebecca (Becky) Beckwith, has helped her clients turn their difficulties into empowerment strategies and has served as an agent of change to enhance her clients’ lives. She provides support and encouragement, with additional strategies to help her clients get to the next level or next chapter. Her approaches are strength-based and solution-focused using evidenced-based models to motivate and facilitate positive change.
Becky works with individuals, professionals, entrepreneurs, couples, and families to transform anxiety or depression into a sustainable next level personal and professional achievement. She has extensive training in Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, and Trauma-Focused CBT.
Becky was most recently trained at Yale University and University of California at San Diego to support cancer survivorship and other terminal illnesses. She is a licensed clinical social worker holding a board Certification and received her graduate degree from the University of New England and BS in Biology from the University of Maine. She resides in Maine with her husband Mark and their 3 children along with their dogs Oakley and Arnie.
Angela Mendez Licensed Professional Counselor
Angela Mendez is a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia. Her clinical training and experience are grounded in a person-centered and humanistic approach which guides her to create a safe and non-judgmental environment for individuals to feel deeply seen and understood.
She develops a collaborative therapeutic relationship in which her clients can experience the freedom to be authentic and honest about their lived experiences and the challenges they currently face in their lives. Angela can then support her clients in their ability to develop an increased sense of self-awareness and insight into new and different strategies that can be utilized for resolving challenges and obstacles explored in the therapeutic process.
Angela has extensive experience managing the effects of chronic life stressors and trauma, addressing symptoms of anxiety and depression, and navigating the effects of expected as well as unexpected major life changes and transitions such as changing jobs, starting a business, moving to a new city, becoming a parent, relationship endings, or losing a loved one. She utilizes a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities to uniquely support each client in connecting with the tools and resources that will best support their progress toward making meaningful and lasting change.
Angela earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Science in Professional Counseling at Georgia State University. She is a passionate and dedicated therapist with nearly 20 years of experience in the social services and mental health field.
Maggie Jackson, LMSW Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist
Maggie Jackson is a multi-lingual (English/Spanish/French) and highly experienced metro-Atlanta based Licensed Master Social Worker and psychotherapist specializing in anxiety, trauma, family violence, women’s issues, and relationship affairs.
She works together with her clients with the ultimate goal of helping them achieve a more rewarding and fulfilling life that is filled with meaning. Maggie has a gift for connecting with people, and her positivity is infectious. She has worked with a wide range of clients, teens, and adults from various socioeconomic backgrounds and lifestyles. She takes a trauma-informed approach when connecting with her clients and can reach them where they are currently.
Maggie is a continuous learner, educator, and consummate professional. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist, trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and is pursuing EMDR Certification. Maggie also provides Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for clients requiring this highly specialized form of therapy.
Maggie earned her Masters’s Degree in Social Work from Clark Atlanta University. Establishing and maintaining a work-life balance was critical for her own journey, and she shares this tenet with her clients as well.
Agnes Hosley Certified Professional Life Coach
“Find what you love to do and you’ve discovered what you were designed to do.”- R. Mathis
For Agnes Hosley, helping others is a way of life. Since childhood, she has felt the innate desire to assist others in reaching their highest level of self-fulfillment. Whether it was through motivation, encouragement or counseling Agnes often found herself pushing the people around her to be better. Agnes believes it was this passion that led her to pursue her career in the psychology field.
With Agnes’ educational background and clinical mental health training, she has adopted a holistic approach when providing services – believing it is critical to meet the client where they are at and utilizing techniques that best suit the client. Some of the techniques utilized derive from cognitive and rational emotive behavior therapy, positive psychology and humanistic theories. Though Agnes specializes in collaborating with clients to treat depression, anxiety disorders, life and career transitions, she also works with clients with a broad range of mental health concerns, such as, stress management, career/vocational challenges, relationship issues, self-esteem, interpersonal difficulties, and conflict resolution.
In addition to her mental health training, Agnes has over twelve years of executive sales and marketing experience where she has supported startups, new acquisitions, and established organizations with developing and implementing strategic sales and marketing strategies to increase revenue. Her belief in investing in employees and keeping the customers’ needs first led to positive work environments and business growth.
Agnes is a graduate of Albany State University, where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. She later obtained her Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from South University and received formalized training from the Life Coach Institute of Orange County to obtain her Certification in Professional Coaching.
When she is not working with clients, you can catch Agnes refueling her fire by spending precious time with husband, family and friends, working out on her Peloton, or enjoying her favorite cup of coffee or dessert.
Lexi Gillilan EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Our long term therapists and coaches are independently contracted.