Desirea Russell, Psychologist, GA

Licensed

Online Counseling

(80 reviews)

MS, CRC, LPC Desirea Russell

Provides online counseling through BetterHelp

Mental health conditions are real, common and treatable.

And recovery is possible.

Desirea Russell is an experienced, licensed Mental Health Professional who specializes in affordable online therapy offered through our partner, BetterHelp.

More about me

Licensing: MS, CRC, LPC Years in Practice: 7 State: Georgia

I realized that we all have something that we want to work on within ourselves. I want to thank you for choosing me to help you on your journey to doing just that. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, who is dedicated to providing quality psychotherapy for those looking to reinvest in themselves. I have worked in the mental health field since 2007. My clinical areas of specialty include individual/family counseling, addiction, trauma, vocational counseling, and depression and anxiety.

I specialize in treating personality and mood disorders, AD/HD, and co-occurring disorders. I also have extensive experience in career counseling. I enjoy working with adolescents, teens, and adults. I apply cognitive behavioral approach and solution focused brief therapy; however, I am experienced in several other therapeutic modalities.

About online counseling

Online counseling allows you to receive care from an online mental health practitioner via phone, video chat, or instant messaging. It is convenient for those who may have trouble getting to or would prefer not to have in-person therapy appointments. Starting at $65 per week, online counseling is generally more affordable than in-person counseling. A study by researchers at University of California, Berkeley found that online counseling can be just as effective as face-to-face therapy while being more convenient, affordable, and accessible.

Issues: Stress Anxiety Anger management Career difficulties Bipolar disorder Depression Addictions LGBT Relationship issues Family conflicts Trauma and abuse Grief Intimacy-related issues Parenting issues Self esteem Coping with life changes Coaching Compassion fatigue ADHD
Languages Spoken: English

Services offered

Professional, confidential, and judgment-free

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Desirea is really awesome and relatable. She is accommodating but also provides structure to our meetings. I feel pretty empowered after speaking to her and I feel like she is my partner in wellness. I am better for having met her.

She listens, takes note and will remember what has been going on without question. I had to pause my therapy for a couple of years then reached back out to her. It was like we never stopped our sessions. 10/10

She has been amazing!

My therapy with Desirea has really been crucial as I've been going through some very difficult life situations as of late. She has rolled with the punches, staying with me through the ups and downs. She is very skilled at her job!

Desirea has helped me tremendously. She is a phenomenal listener, helps me to grow, gain confidence, and accept myself.

She listens to me and provides great feedback. I love my homework assignments. Seeing my growth makes me want to go further in life.

Desirea is an attentive, kind, and wise therapist. She has taught me to set and communicate boundaries, how to goal set, and how to tale better care of myself. I feel heard and seen by Desirea through the various ways get in touch - sessions and messages. Therapy is hard work, with her gentleness and honesty she has guided me though.

Desirea is phenomenal. She’s personable, she listens well, she is extremely supportive and creates a space where you feel safe and heard. I’m so grateful she’s been my therapist.

Desirea is kind and patient in listening to me. Very grateful to and for her.

I have a hard time expressing my feelings about the trauma I recently experienced but Desirea has made me feel incredibly safe, understood and supported. She is professional, knowledgeable and most importantly, a genuinely kindhearted person that cares. I highly recommend Desirea to anyone that needs help with moving on from trauma.

I couldn't have gotten to where I am today without her. She helped me grow in ways I sincerely did not think were possible. I'm very thankful for my time with her.

Desirea has been my soundboard! Great listener who has helped me with my day to day anxiety. Absolutely love our weekly session. To a point that, when we end our call am excited for our next meeting!

She makes me feel comfortable and it is like talking to a friend. I love getting her feed back and the tools she gives me to help with my anxiety and boundary issues.

Desirea is compassionate and kind. Desirea has a vast breadth of experience and is able to help me through a variety of life experiences. I have been able to meet my goals, set new ones, and work toward those with her help.

Desirea is wonderful. From the moment I met her I felt comfortable. I feel seen, heard, and that my thoughts and feelings matter. She also gives me tools I can take into my daily life until we meet again. I'm so glad she's my therapist.

She is just great to talk to and will always listen to just my babbling

Working with Desirea has been so great, she really makes you think and reflect to the solution yourself - which is what I need. I've gained so much confidence, insight, self-care techniques and general life lessons from my session with Desirea and would highly recommend her. She is thoughtful and kind, and makes you feel really cared for.

She is just great! I would know. Not kidding in the least.

Desirea is very helpful, knowledgeable, and honest. I am looking forward to working with her even more to help reach my goals.

I feel heard for the first time in a really long time. I'm hopeful regular sessions will help me break out of destructive cycles.

Desirea is honest, competent, and warm. She is very respectful and her guidance has helped me.

Love her! She’s the best!

Thanks so much Desirea, your calm insight and caring demeanour are a HUGE help, and one of the best things about every month!

So thankful for Desirea.

Desirea has been great since we connected , great personality - very understanding and she hears you- emphasis on hear

Desirea is very talented counselor. Highly recommend!

Desirea is amazing! I am so thankful to have her in my life!

Desirea described what she does as kind of being a diary that talks back, but she’s more than that. She challenges the ways that I move through the world and dares me to engage with reality without the filters. I’m confident that I’m in good hands.

Desirea is very professional, & knowledgeable, she gives great advice.

Desirea is an awesome therapist!!! Extremely personable and easy to talk to!

Desirea is such a real, down to earth person. I appreciate her perspective and strength so much as I learn things about myself.

Desirea is fantastic! So thankful she’s on here

Desirea has an amazing ability to fully support me as I am while gently helping me move towards the changes I most want. She's kind and intelligent. She clearly has a lot of experience. I feel like I'm in very capable hands and can open up even my most tender aspects.

She really thinks in solutions, this is what therapy should be like. I am grateful to know her

All I can say is the Desirea is the best!

Desirea is the best! She has a high level of expertise and wisdom. You can tell she is very passionate about helping others and really cares about you and what you have to say. This is my first time going to therapy, which made me very nervous at first, but Desirea’s approach and energy made it easy. I would recommend 10/10 for anyone thinking about wanting to get better as an overall person.

Desirea is an amazing counselor! I came to her after having a bad experience with another counselor, and it was very important to me to get my faith restored in counseling, and she did it so effortlessly because she is well experienced and well educated. She is very thoughtful and compassionate, wise, and understanding, she’s respectful and non judgemental, and she’s also a very good listener! Along my journey of several months with her, I have felt the progress, I am getting good grasp on how my mind and feelings work, she helped me find answers to lifelong questions that I had about myself and my feelings and about past experiences. thanks to her help I managed to deal with very tough situations in my life in a healthy way. I highly recommend Desirea, and I’m looking forward to getting better and better with her help

My counselor is the best! Down to earth, real, honest, funny, warm and loving! She listens and she’s about action and healing!!! I love herrrrr!

Desirea was extremely professional and super pleasant! I was an absolute mess before our session. And I felt much better after. I felt extremely comfortable talking to her. I would definitely recommend her.

Desirea Russel is a wonderful counselor that makes you feel at ease. During her sessions you truly feel heard which not only provides a safe space and relaxation but allows you to better hold up a mirror to yourself and emotions. Her approach is flexible and excerises help to address the core of some of the problems. I highly recommend her.

She is really sweet, and funny and listens to what I have to say. She knows how bad I want what I want, and she’s working with me to achieve that

She was so sweet and I felt very comfortable with her

Desirea has been super helpful and an amazing thought and accountability partner. She’s amazing!

Therapy has been a crucial aspect of my life for some time, finding a therapist that understands me has always been the hardest part. Desirea makes me feel like I have a professionally trained best friend. She creates an accepting and enriching therapy environment seemingly effortlessly! Desirea’s guidance has given me the ability to live life rather than it being a burden. Her help during these trying times is appreciated beyond words can express.

So helpful and attentive to me even in my panic moments. She’s incredible and I’m SO grateful. HIGHLY recommended.

Desirea is very understanding and helpful. She comes up with creative ways to work on self growth. I’m very grateful for her help!

Desirea is able to ask me the right questions to explore options that are open to me. I find working with her very helpful. I would recommend her to others.

Desirea is a great listener. She has given me helpful tools and is kind. She has a good personality and knows how to help.

I really cannot recommend Desirea enough. She helped me find things looking inside that I failed to see on my own. She's given me tools and tips to managing myself when things seem hardest, and for that I owe her a debt of gratitude. I've been able to find peace and balance in my life that I didn't think possible before. Thank you!

Desirea provided me with invaluable insight and advice to deal with the problems I was facing. She worked with me to not only guide me through my issues, but also to provide me with the tools to mentally deal with any circumstances that may reoccur. Desirea is a fantastic counsellor and I throughly recommend her.

Desirea is the most supportive psychologist I’ve ever spoken to. She validated my feelings and I can tell she truly listens to me. She is super easy to talk to, and makes the therapy experience relaxing and enjoyable.

My words get jumbled up, and tend to wander off whenever I'm talking, yet somehow she always understands what I am actually saying and focuses on the most important issues. Then she calmly helps me resolve them in a friendly tone. I now feel that finally my problems aren't being ignored, no matter how small or big they are.

Desirea is excellent at listening and affirming! She maintains positive energy and is super supportive.

Very pleased.

Desirea is the best she has me feeling better about myself and life overall. I was down so bad when I started with her and now I am doing a lot better.

I enjoy working with her. She listens well, is compassionate and gives good "homework" to keep me on track throughout the week. She also checks in if I've been quiet for a week or so.

I haven't been working with Desirea for long but I'm really enjoying working with her so far. I love the flexibility of chat sessions and Desirea herself is responsive to my concerns. She works with me to find solutions that work for me and my needs and is great at acknowledging and having empathy for what I'm feeling.

Desirea is warm, inviting, and extremely easy to talk to. She LISTENS to me and provides helpful tools to help me cope with whatever I'm going thorough. I've had several sessions with her and each time I feel better at the end! I highly recommend Desirea, especially if you're apprehensive about therapy because she makes it easy!

Great counselor knows what she’s talking about and wants to help almost like a friend

Desirea has helped me unpack some of my junk in such a short time. She gave me simple prompts that really made me think about what I hold onto and how to think about those things differently. I already feel lighter and more in control of my emotions.

She very kind and informative!

Desirea is a very sweet person, who is also fun to talk to. She does a great job at helping me understand myself better, she puts everything in a new light. She helps me greatly with gaining a new perspective on difficult matters. She has also helped me significantly with trying to use all the negative energy inside me productively. I can say that she has been of great help and I feel quite helpful to have had her as my counsellor.

Desirea Russell is the best therapist I’ve ever had, she listens to me, respects me and offers me solutions to all of my issues.

I highly recommend Desirea. She always has the right words to help you with your problems and checks on you often to make sure you’re doing okay. If you’re someone who needs someone to make you feel better when you’re down, she’s the best one for you!

Desirea is wonderful at giving advise on how to cope with what I've been going through.

Desirea is amazing! I am so thankful to have her as a therapist!

She is very knowledgeable and receptive to my needs.

This year has been hard, but BetterHelp has made it easier. Desirea pairs thoughtful advice and reflection, with genuine understanding and companionship. Her experience with motherhood, education, and professionalism makes her extremely relatable to other businesswomen raising a family. She is an excellent therapist, and a beautiful friend.

Really great sessions that feel interactive, professional, enlightening, compassionate and so useful, and am very grateful for the amazing positive energy that Desirea has along with it, makes doing something this difficult fully worthwhile.

She’s supportive and I feel myself when I am talking to her.

So far, I'm really grateful for the help I've received on this platform. Looking forward to more growth.

Love her. Patient. Caring. Warm. Insightful.

She has been extremely helpful and I am grateful for her.

Great conversationalist. Makes it a safe and free environment to express what your needs are, where they stem from and how to find solutions and resolutions that work for you as an individual. Drops a lot gems too.

Desirea is a wonderful, caring individual. She is balanced and calm and comes across as both professional and also personally interested in what I have to say. I feel a lot of support from her.

Desirea is very supportive. She is a great counselor.

Wonderful, only had two sessions but am pleased with everything so far. Very supportive and understanding, and already making small improvements to my life thanks to her help.

Desirea is an excellent counsellor, she takes A great deal of effort to both listen carefully with understanding and offer feedback that both supports and aids my mental health journey. Would absolutely recommend Desirea to anyone!

Desirea is really supportive, offers excellent advice and comes across as a kind, genuine person who I feel one-hundred-percent comfortable with.

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