Adam Raulerson

Adam Raulerson, LMFT, CCTP — Couples & Family Therapist in Georgia

Adam Raulerson, LMFT, CCTP, is a licensed marriage and family therapist with more than 20 years of experience helping adults, couples, and families navigate relationship challenges, parenting concerns, and complex family dynamics. He also has specialized experience supporting families raising children with special needs and provides in-person therapy in Dacula and virtual therapy throughout Georgia.

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Specialties
Complex ​Family SystemsRelationship IssuesMen's IssuesMarriage CounselingFaith
Services
Continuing Education for Mental Health Professionals Counseling Couples Counseling Family Counseling Individual Counseling Mental Health Training for Organizations Parent Coaching Parenting Workshops

About

Thank you for considering me for your counseling needs.  I am licensed in Georgia as a marriage and family therapist and have over 20 years of experience.  My career has included work in hospice, in-home intensive family therapy, community-based mental health, and inpatient acute stabilization.  

 Personal life experience, along with professional education and training, has helped me develop the skills to support others on their journey.   I am especially interested in working with couples and families who have a child with special needs.  I work from a Family Systems model, with a primary focus on Structural Family Therapy.  Other strategies and techniques complement this framework and help us partner together to achieve your goals. 

I am married to my wife of 26 years and have four children. 

Education

Bachelor of Science in Child and Family Development UGA Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy East Carolina University

Licensed In

  • Georgia

Session Format

  • In-Person
  • Virtual

Clients Served

  • Adults
  • Couples & Families

Payment

  • Insurance Accepted
  • Self-Pay

$160

60-Minute Session

Insurance Accepted

Georgia

Aetna Anthem Blue Cross* Cigna Cigna Evernorth GEHA* Humana Meritain* Optum United Healthcare Oscar Health* Priority Health* Tricare* United Healthcare

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Complex ​Family Systems

What this specialty means

Complex Family Systems refers to counseling and coaching focused on families with layered relationships and stressors—such as blended households, co-parenting across homes, caregiving for elders, immigration or cultural transitions, chronic conflict, or the impact of illness or addiction. Using a systems perspective, the work looks at patterns, roles, boundaries, and communication rather than placing blame on one person. Support may involve family therapy, individual sessions linked to family goals, or skills-based coaching. Psychotherapy tends to explore emotions and history; coaching emphasizes practical strategies; medical care addresses health conditions separately.

Why people seek support

People may seek help when home life feels stuck, tense, or fragmented. Common situations include recurring arguments about parenting, loyalty conflicts in stepfamilies, difficulty navigating holidays or finances across multiple households, caring for a relative while balancing children's needs, or setting boundaries with extended family. Others notice patterns like secrecy, shifting alliances, or decision-making gridlock that leave them exhausted. Major transitions—moves, loss, immigration, or a new diagnosis in the family can amplify strain. Support offers a neutral space to map what's happening and try different ways of relating.

Typical goals

Typical collaborative goals may include developing clearer communication routines, repairing trust after ruptures, and creating agreements about roles, boundaries, and shared responsibilities. Families might practice conflict-resolution skills, emotion regulation, and problem-solving methods suited to their culture and values. Parents or co-parents could work toward aligned expectations and consistent caregiving across homes. Some choose to examine intergenerational patterns and reduce unhelpful cycles. Plans may include how and when to involve specific members, how to make decisions under stress, and how to sustain changes with check-ins and supports.

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Relationship Issues

What this specialty means

Relationship Issues refers to supportive services that help individuals, couples, and families understand and improve patterns of relating—communication, trust, boundaries, intimacy, and roles. Practitioners may be psychotherapists, counselors, or relationship coaches; psychotherapy explores emotions, history, and entrenched patterns, while coaching focuses on skills and action plans. This work is not medical care, though coordination with healthcare may occur when mental or physical conditions affect connection. Support is collaborative, culturally responsive, and inclusive of diverse identities and relationship structures, including monogamous, non‑monogamous, and LGBTQIA+ partnerships.

Why people seek support

People seek support for relationship issues when patterns feel stuck, painful, or confusing. Common concerns include frequent arguments, communication breakdowns, feeling distant or unseen, breaches of trust or jealousy, and difficulty setting or respecting boundaries. Life transitions—new parenthood, blending families, caregiving, relocation, or career changes—can strain connection, as can cultural or religious differences, decisions about commitment or separation, and navigating non‑monogamy agreements. Others want guidance for dating after loss or divorce, or easing tensions with relatives, roommates, or coworkers. When safety is a concern, professionals emphasize safety planning and access to resources.

Typical goals

Collaborative goals often include clarifying values, needs, and boundaries; strengthening communication through listening, empathy, and repair; and developing fair, workable agreements about roles, time, money, sex, parenting, or household tasks. Many aim to reduce escalation, manage reactivity, and practice conflict‑resolution skills, or to rebuild, redefine, or respectfully end a relationship. Psychotherapy may address family‑of‑origin patterns, attachment injuries, or trauma responses; coaching tends to focus on skills practice, accountability, and real‑world experiments. When health or safety concerns affect connection, professionals may coordinate with other supports to promote stability.

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Men's Issues

What this specialty means

Men’s Issues refers to counseling, psychotherapy, and coaching that center the experiences of men and masculine-identifying people. It recognizes how cultural expectations about strength, success, and stoicism can shape stress, relationships, and help‑seeking. Support may address communication, anger, intimacy, fatherhood, work pressures, identity, sexuality, grief, trauma, and isolation. Psychotherapy tends to explore emotions and patterns in depth; coaching emphasizes practical skills and goals; medical concerns are handled by healthcare providers. A qualified professional offers a nonjudgmental space to clarify values, build coping strategies, and navigate life transitions with dignity and respect.

Why people seek support

People may seek support when they feel pressure to appear “fine” while navigating conflict with a partner, dating after divorce, co‑parenting, job loss, performance expectations, burnout, or career change. Others come after military service, sports‑related identity shifts, injury, or legal and financial stress. Concerns can include irritability, withdrawal, risky coping, body image, aging, fertility or sexual worries, caregiving strain, loneliness, or discrimination related to race, culture, or orientation. Some want privacy to sort through mixed messages about masculinity, emotions, and connection, and to approach challenges with steadier footing.

Typical goals

Collaborative goals may include expanding emotional vocabulary, improving stress and anger regulation, strengthening communication and boundaries, and developing healthier coping routines. People may work on co‑parenting plans, trust repair, and intimacy, or align work and family choices with personal values. Psychotherapy might explore family messages, shame, trauma, or depression‑like patterns; coaching may focus on action steps, habits, and accountability; and referrals to medical providers could be considered for sleep, sexual, or substance‑related concerns. Many aim to challenge unhelpful norms, build supportive networks, increase self‑compassion, and create practical plans that promote safety and wellbeing.

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Marriage Counseling

What this specialty means

Marriage counseling is a structured, collaborative service that helps spouses or committed partners understand patterns, improve communication, and navigate conflict with the support of a neutral professional. It often blends counseling and coaching: sessions may focus on skills practice and problem-solving, while deeper emotional work can occur when both partners consent. It is not medical care, and individual psychotherapy for personal concerns may be recommended alongside couples work. The counselor aims to support the relationship’s wellbeing without taking sides or deciding outcomes for the partners.

Why people seek support

People may seek marriage counseling when repeated arguments leave them feeling stuck, when emotional distance grows, or when major life transitions strain their partnership. Common situations include differences about money, intimacy, parenting, household roles, cultural or religious expectations, or relationships with extended family. Some couples want support after a breach of trust, following relocation or job changes, during fertility or health stressors, or before marriage to build a strong foundation. Counseling offers a structured space to speak openly, reduce blame, and explore decisions about staying together or separating.

Typical goals

Typical goals may include learning to communicate needs respectfully, listen without defensiveness, and manage conflict with fair, de-escalating strategies. Partners might practice rebuilding trust and safety, strengthening friendship and intimacy, clarifying shared values, and negotiating roles, finances, or parenting approaches. Couples may set boundaries with extended family, plan for stress, and create rituals that support connection. When individual concerns like trauma or substance use are central, the counselor may suggest parallel individual or medical care. Goals are collaborative, may evolve over time, and outcomes are not guaranteed.

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Faith

What this specialty means

Faith as a mental health and personal growth specialty refers to support that thoughtfully integrates a person’s spiritual beliefs, values, and practices—whether religious, interfaith, culturally spiritual, uncertain, or non-theistic—into counseling or coaching. Practitioners may draw on clients’ traditions without proselytizing, focusing on meaning, purpose, and identity alongside emotional wellbeing. Depending on training and licensure, services can range from coaching to psychotherapy, and they are not a substitute for medical care. The approach respects autonomy, welcomes questions and doubts, and aims to align care with each person’s worldview.

Why people seek support

People may seek faith-integrated support when life events stir questions about meaning, suffering, or belonging, such as grief, illness, family conflict, moral injury at work, or major transitions. Others may want help reconciling faith teachings with relationships, sexuality, career choices, or cultural expectations. Some hope to process religious harm, spiritual abuse, or intense guilt, while others simply want their coping tools—prayer, meditation, ritual, community service—recognized in care. Individuals exploring deconstruction, conversion, or interfaith partnerships may also value a nonjudgmental space to sort through doubts and preserve what matters most.

Typical goals

Collaborative goals may include clarifying core values, strengthening or thoughtfully revising beliefs, and building daily practices that support resilience and compassion. Work might focus on meaning-making after loss, ethical decision-making, and setting healthy boundaries with communities or leaders while maintaining connection where desired. Clients and professionals could develop spiritual coping plans, improve communication with loved ones about faith differences, and integrate practices like mindfulness, prayer, or service. When relevant, care may coordinate with medical or therapeutic treatment plans, aiming for alignment across supports without assuming any single path is right for everyone.

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