Kathy McCrorie
MS, LPC, NCC, Owner
She currently sees individuals and couples dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, and relationship counseling. As well she is also trained in neurofeedback, including qEEG technology.
Kathy McCrorie
MS, LPC, NCC, Owner
Speciality in anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, and relationship counseling. Also trained in neurofeedback, including qEEG technology.
Kathy McCrorie, MS, LPC, NCC, owns Emerald Counseling Center, LLC. Before Kathy’s career in counseling, she worked in the corporate world as a Senior Vice President for an Atlanta-based insurance company.
She is a licensed professional counselor and a national certified counselor in the state of Georgia. She has also been approved to provide telehealth services to Florida residents.
Kathy has a degree in psychology and received her Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health and Rehabilitation Counseling from Thomas University in Thomasville, GA. She currently sees individuals and couples dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, bipolar disorder, and relationship counseling. As well she is also trained in neurofeedback, including qEEG technology.
Kathy’s passion for her work is particularly evident in her dedication to helping couples. She is trained in the Gottman Method, a renowned approach to relationship counseling. This method and her extensive experience allow her to assist partners in finding or rekindling intimacy.
Email: kathy@emeraldcounselingcenter.com
Phone: 678-439-6564
Florida Registration Number: TPMC5246
What Lead Me to Psychotherapy
I was introduced to the challenges surrounding mental health when my mother began hearing knocks at the front door when I was nineteen years old. I wasn’t living at home then, but I was worried for my mother, so I stayed up several nights hoping to catch the neighborhood kids who were supposedly pranking her. I waited to hear something, but I never did, so I went back to work and assumed it had stopped. About a month later, I received a call from a doctor at a local hospital telling me that he needed me to sign some papers on behalf of my mother. I didn’t know she was in the hospital or why she was there. When I arrived, the doctor told me that she checked herself in for exhaustion, but during her three-night stay, she kept the nurses hopping, saying that people were knocking on her walls, and she wanted them to stop. None of the nurses heard knocking, which prompted his call to me. He was not compassionate as he put papers in front of me so I could send my mother to a psychiatric hospital. I was clueless about what was happening to my mother or why I never noticed this behavior before. But then I remembered that I did when I never heard anyone knocking at her front door one month earlier.
Decades later I can still remember that day vividly. It would forever change my life and my relationship with my mother. I learned a lot trying to help my mother, who didn’t want or believe she needed help. It drove a wedge between us for years, which impacted my mental health. I loved my mother, and I know she loved me, but our relationship was challenging. I began seeing a therapist to understand more about mental health, and myself. Was I headed in the same direction as my mother? I was angry because she was different, and I wanted her to be a “normal” mom. At the same time, I wanted to find a healthy way to connect with her, hopefully. Those years in therapy taught me genuine compassion, empathy, and the courage to make tough calls when I had to not just for my mother but in my own life. My mother and I would eventually grow closer, and I was grateful that we did before she passed away in 2016. I am confident that without therapy, I would be in a much different place today—one filled with regret instead of joy.
