Junetta Watson, LPC

Junetta Watson, LPC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with 18 years of experience in mental health and substance abuse care. She works with people facing co-occurring, chronic, and situational disorders and draws on a range of therapeutic methods to support recovery and resilience.

Her background includes extensive outpatient work serving clients of all ages, with a focus on depression, anxiety, grief, anger, and interpersonal conflict. She has experience treating dual diagnosis concerns and assisting clients navigating substance-related challenges, caregiving stress, and trauma histories.

Watson uses a solutions-oriented, reality- and goal-directed style that is motivational and grounded in evidence-based practice. She holds certification from the Beck Institute in cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused therapy and integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused interventions.

Her practice emphasizes helping people manage stress, build self-esteem, address addiction and compassion fatigue, repair relationships, cope with grief, and improve sleep and parenting challenges. She also brings focused attention to issues like adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, domestic violence, and first responder stress. Junetta Watson combines practical strategies with compassionate support to help clients pursue measurable goals and meaningful change.