Our Therapists
About
Our therapists are trained in various therapeutic healing modalities. All have had excellent training and clinical supervision. We are dedicated to providing therapy of the highest quality in a safe, caring and calm environment.
DAYLE DOREEN HOSACK, MA, LMFT
☎ 404-663-1650
✉ DAYLE@LULLWATERCOUNSELING.COM
Dayle has been in private practice in Decatur, Georgia, since 1993 and provides individual, couples, and family psychotherapy.
With a degree in Transpersonal Psychology and a meditator for 35 years, she has a special interest in the integration of psychotherapy, mindfulness, and spirituality.
As an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Dayle supervises masters level counseling interns from local universities as they complete their clinical internships to meet graduation requirements. She also provides a clinical residency program where post-graduate, license-eligible residents seeking clinical licensure receive requisite supervision and training.
Dayle earned her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University in Social Work (1977) and a masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology from John F. Kennedy University (1990). From 2003 to 2010, she was a board member of the Society for the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy, a professional organization exploring the common boundary between psychological healing and spiritual growth.
Dayle can be reached at:
☎ 404-663-1650
✉ DAYLE@LULLWATERCOUNSELING.COM
Giselle Jacob, MS, APC, NCC
☎ 770-377-1550
✉ giselle@lullwatercounseling.com
🔗 www.gisellejacob.com
Giselle believes in approaching therapy through a holistic lens, considering mind, body, spirit, environment, and individuals' circumstances to address clients' goals and challenges. She provides compassionate and culturally-aware evidence-based treatment that is tailored to the individual's needs in a safe and nonjudgmental space. Giselle helps clients access the answers they seek from within and guide themselves down their own path of healing and growth.
She applies an Intersectional Feminist lens to an Integrative and Humanistic theoretical approach, drawing from frameworks such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Reality Therapy, and Narrative Therapy, as appropriate for the client's unique needs. Giselle enjoys working individually with young adults and members of the LGBTQ+ community on issues like trauma, assertiveness, codependency, and anxiety and stress management. She is passionate about meditation and social justice and volunteers as a research assistant at her alma mater, University of North Georgia, studying culture and trauma.
Giselle can be reached at:
☎ 770-377-1550
✉ giselle@lullwatercounseling.com
🔗 www.gisellejacob.com
MICHELE HODGES, LAMFT
☎ (706) 452-3465
✉ Michele@lullwatercounseling.com
Michele Hodges works with adult individuals and intimate partners. With a warm, accepting and curious style, she has helped clients deal with things like depression, anxiety, stress, traumatic childhood events, self-doubt and narcissistic abuse. She has counseling experience in clinical practice and in inpatient hospital environments. Michele strives to help clients understand the relationship between themselves and their situation—personal, societal and cultural—in order to create healing, self-compassion and personal growth.
Michele uses Emotion Focused Therapy with intimate partners to improve their communication and to diffuse negative patterns that get in the way of connection. Attending to partners’ attachment needs, she helps them develop empathy and acceptance, and deepen their commitment to the relationship. She has also studied in the evidence-based Gottman Method for couples therapy, and to support couples dealing with substance abuse.
Michele brings a straightforward, but sensitive approach to sex therapy, working with concerns like sexual function/pain, desire discrepancies, sexual trauma and feelings of self-doubt. She is affirming of LGBTQIA+ individuals and alternative interests like non-monogamy and kink. Michele’s goal is create a safe and accepting space for her clients to examine their sexual selves, release shame, process past events, and achieve greater satisfaction.
Michele got her Masters of Family Therapy from the Mercer University School of Medicine. An Atlanta native, she is the mother of two grown children and enjoys entertaining, decorating, dancing, disco balls and boating with friends.
Michele receives professional supervision under Dayle Doreen Hosack, MA, LMFT and Dr. Erika Pluhar, PhD, EdS, LMFT, LPC, CST-S.
Michele can be reached at:
☎ (706) 452-3465
✉ Michele@lullwatercounseling.com
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Useful Links
Georgia | Suicide Prevention Resource Center
http://www.sprc.org/states/georgia
DeKalb Rape Crisis Center
http://www.gcapp.org/dekalb
J Alan Graham, PhD
http://www.dralangraham.com/
Kathy Lucy, LMFT
http://www.kathylucy.com/
Atlanta Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy
https://eftatlanta.com/
The Link Counseling Center