Lara Eddleman, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Sandy Springs GA
I take a collaborative, client-centered approach, meeting each person exactly where they are with respect, curiosity, and compassion. I consider the whole person—mind, body, and soul—and hold space for all factors that shape identity and lived experience, including self-image, personal goals, family of origin dynamics, generational influences, cultural history, and the environments we move through.
Together, we explore the past to understand patterns and unmet needs, build skills that support healthier relationships with self and others in the present, and cultivate the inner resources needed to move toward a more aligned and authentic future. My style is supportive and strengths-based, honoring your inherent wisdom while encouraging meaningful insight, resilience, and lasting change.
I am a licensed psychotherapist who believes every person is inherently worthy of acceptance, growth, and fulfillment. My work focuses on helping clients safely explore, process, and make meaning from life’s adversity while empowering their own inner wisdom for lasting healing and change. I welcome adults from all walks of life navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, identity and life transitions, relational challenges, recovery, and patterns rooted in perfectionism and survival strategies.
My approach is informed by attachment theory, somatic and polyvagal therapies, parts-work, trauma-focused modalities, and relational depth work. I am also passionate about the responsible and ethical use of psychedelic-assisted therapies, with specialized training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and integration support. I believe ketamine and other emerging psychedelic treatments can serve as profound catalysts—helping clients access deeper layers of insight, reduce emotional suffering, and open pathways to renewed possibility.
Before becoming a therapist, I balanced a business career while raising a family, shaping empathy, practicality, and respect for the complexity of being human in today's hectic, expectation-filled society. Many clients describe our work as grounding, honest, and deeply attuned—whether they are new to therapy or seeking to go further into the “roots” of long-standing patterns.
I offer in-person and virtual therapy for individuals and couples (in-person therapy in Atlanta, GA, virtual telehealth anywhere in Georgia and Florida). I would be honored to support you in your healing and integration journey! Email or call for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation.
Safe-And-Sound Protocol (SSP): a time-increment focused therapeutic listening intervention grounded in Polyvagal Theory that gently supports regulation of the nervous system, utilizing specifically filtered music to help reorient the nervous system's social engagement patterns to shift the body from chronic defense states into regulated states of emotional safety and connection.