Dr. Shayda Nematollahi, Ph.D, LPC, CCHt

Founder | Clinical & Creative Director | Women’s Psychotherapist
​Email:shayda@healatl.com
Phone: 833-HEAL-ATL ext. 2

Shayda cofounded Heal ATL Counseling & Wellness in 2018 with the intention to build a holistically minded, compassionate, and integrative whole person care practice that focuses on mental health and integrative wellness. She uses a strength-based and holistic approach to psychotherapy focusing on the whole self - mind, body, and spirit.

Embracing a holistic view of human psychology, Shayda incorporates several modalities into her work with clients including CBT, solution-focused, and mindfulness-based approaches. Shayda seeks to help women identify and use their own unique strengths to experience empowerment, find new ways to cope and build resiliency to stress and anxiety, all while finding meaning in their narratives and regaining control of their lives through self care; leaving them feeling centered, balanced, and confident. She also practices ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and psychedelic integration to help her clients make significant breakthroughs and symptom improvement.

Shayda is a compassionate, patient, easy-going, and nonjudgmental therapist with a knack for putting people at ease and is particularly skilled at engaging women who may feel doubtful or uncertain about therapy. She believes that the therapeutic relationship is a collaborative process in which the therapist and client work together to bring about positive change, growth, and healing. She works with her clients to support them during difficult times and in accomplishing the change they wish to see in their lives. Shayda provides you with tools to create healthy change in your inner dialogue, relationship to your body, and to cultivate compassion for yourself and others in your life. She also helps you find and implement self-care practices and rituals into your daily life that nourish your mind, body, and spirit.  

Shayda believes while therapy can be a lifelong journey for some, it can also mean inviting someone into your life for a critical period of time when you deserve the support needed to get back to your life. Shayda works with individuals from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. As a child of immigrants, Shayda is aware of the challenges that come along with growing up with two cultures and she is a culturally sensitive therapist. Culturally sensitive therapy emphasizes the therapist's understanding of a client’s background, ethnicity, and belief system. Shayda welcomes women from all cultures, religious & spiritual backgrounds, and world views. She incorporates cultural sensitivity into her work to accommodate and respect differences in opinions, values, and attitudes of various cultures. She is LGBTQTI+ affirming and works with women ages 18+.

Shayda Offers:

• Individual Psychotherapy for Women (18+)

• Hypnotherapy

• Breathwork

• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Education

• Doctorate | Mind Body Medicine, Specialization in Integrative Mental Health | Saybrook University | Oakland, California

• Masters of Science | Dual Specialization Marriage, Couples & Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Barry University | Miami Shores, Florida

• Bachelor’s of Science | Psychology | University of Georgia | Athens, Georgia

Licensing | Certifications

• Licensed Professional Counselor | Georgia Secretary of State | #LPC011787

• Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist | Saybrook University

Memberships

• Current Professional Member of American Counseling Association

• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Provider | Journey Clinical

• Current Professional Member of Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia

• Current Professional Member of the National Wellness Institute

• Chi Sigma Iota Academic & Professional Honor Society | Former Beta Upsilon Chapter President 

Languages

• English

• Farsi

  Pronouns

  She/Her/Hers