Georgia Ballantyne-Durand
Registered Social Work Intern ยท Anxiety, Stress & Trauma Therapist ยท Fort Lauderdale & Oakland Park, FL
Hello, I'm Georgia Ballantyne-Durand
Your mind runs a thousand miles per minute. You feel helpless and frustrated with yourself because at any given time an anxiety attack could show up to shut down a joyful moment.
Maybe people think you're just shy but it's easier to isolate because your whole body feels crippled with fear of judgement. You long for connection but the recurring fear that people can see your flaws stops you from leaving the house. You feel tired of hearing yourself say, "I'm fine," with a masked smile, when you know you aren't.
I'm Georgia Ballantyne-Durand, and I help people struggling with anxiety, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm, trauma, and difficult life transitions that leave them feeling stuck.
I believe in the internal wisdom of the body and in the greatness and promise every person carries within them. I make space to honor the spiritual beliefs and needs of the people I serve. Working with me helps my clients make sense of their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and experiences โ working toward more understanding, better coping, and real healing.
When I'm not working I love to have a good belly laugh, learn from the people around me, and have conversations that go somewhere deep. I love to travel, spend time in nature, be with family, and dive into the phenomenology of human behavior โ the study of what it actually feels like to be a person moving through the world. I am a woman of strong faith, and I'm inspired by the power of herbs, naturalism, and spiritual transcendence.
Georgia Ballantyne-Durand's Clinical Profile
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| Location | Emergent Counseling and Consulting, Oakland Park, FL | Teletherapy across Florida |
Is This You?
Adults experiencing anxiety, chronic stress, and emotional overwhelm.
People who cannot seem to quiet their minds or stop overthinking.
Adults navigating difficult transitions or feeling stuck.
People working through painful or traumatic experiences.
Teenagers struggling with big emotions, stress, identity, relationships, or life changes.
Families who want to understand and support one another more effectively.
People rebuilding confidence and emotional resilience.
People of faith who want their spiritual beliefs respected and, when desired, incorporated into therapy.
How We Will Work Together
My training gives me tools, but therapy is still a relationship between two human beings. I am intentional about learning my clients, their needs, their identities, their values and stories. I don't believe one therapeutic approach fits every person, so I draw on several to help you process what you're facing and move toward solutions that actually fit your life. Bring your uncertainty. Bring the parts of your story you haven't quite figured out yet. We'll start there.
AEDP & EMDR
Experiential approaches that help us explore difficult emotions and trauma while recognizing your existing capacity for healing, connection, and change.
Narrative Therapy
Helps you examine the stories and conclusions you've developed about yourself, separating the person from the problem so a fuller story of who you're becoming can emerge.
CBT & Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Practical tools to change how you respond to stressful thoughts and situations, and to move toward the solutions that fit your life.
Faith-Inclusive Care
If faith is important to how you understand yourself, your healing, or the world, it is welcome in our work. If it isn't, you never need to adopt my beliefs to feel comfortable in therapy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Therapy can help you better understand what contributes to your anxiety, recognize patterns that may be keeping it going, develop healthier coping strategies, and change how you respond to stressful thoughts, emotions, and situations. Our goal isn't simply to tell you to "stop worrying" โ we become curious about what the anxiety is doing and what can help you respond differently.
Overthinking is one of the reasons many people seek therapy. We can explore what triggers the mental loops, what you're trying to solve or prevent through constant thinking, and how to respond without allowing every thought to become an emergency requiring your attention.
Yes. I work with teenagers and bring experience from education, foster care, child welfare, and family-focused settings. Therapy can give teens a space to understand their emotions, relationships, stressors, and experiences while developing healthier ways to cope and communicate.
Absolutely, if that is what you want. Your faith, spirituality, cultural beliefs, and values can be incorporated into therapy when they are meaningful to your healing. You will not be pressured to approach therapy from a religious perspective.
Narrative Therapy helps you examine the stories and conclusions you've developed about yourself through your experiences. Instead of allowing anxiety, trauma, mistakes, relationships, or painful experiences to define who you are, we begin separating the person from the problem and exploring a fuller story about who you are and who you're becoming.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, or AEDP, is an experiential therapy approach that pays close attention to emotions, relationships, and experiences in the present moment. In our work, it can help us explore difficult emotions and experiences while also recognizing your existing capacity for healing, connection, and change.
No. You might know you're anxious, exhausted, or that something from your past is still affecting you. Or you might simply know that you don't feel like yourself anymore. Part of our work is understanding what's happening together.
Yes. I provide in-person therapy at Emergent Counseling and Consulting in Oakland Park, Florida, and teletherapy for clients throughout Florida, including Fort Lauderdale, Sunrise, Plantation, Coral Springs, Deerfield Beach, and the wider Broward County community.
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