Marielle Stair

Marielle is the founder of Athens Counseling & Psychotherapy, LLC. Marielle specializes in helping individuals in the face of ongoing or in the aftermath of trauma. These experiences may have occurred in childhood, adolescence or adulthood. She supports individuals and relationships to navigate the complex outcomes of devastating, traumatic experiences that can occur over the lifespan of a person or relationship. Her work encapsulates helping individuals and people in relationships discover how to regulate their nervous systems, make sense of their thoughts and feelings, and learn new behaviors that will align with the vision and goals they have for their lives and relationships. Through this journey, she supports her clients to rediscover their identity, their sense of self, and expressions of that self. She has a passion for serving those who have experienced violence and marginalization related to sexual and gender identities, and has a special interest in working with LGB+, Queer, and Transgender communities and relationships. Clients come to her with experiences of racial and ethnic marginalization and displacement, acculturation and resettlement stress, and histories of surviving mental, physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological violence. This includes experiences of military combat, moral injury, military sexual trauma, and violence and marginalization related to sexual identity, interpersonal power dynamics, and expressions of gender. Marielle is also a Somatic Coach who works with individuals and relationships in positions of leadership who want to overcome limiting beliefs, and direct and focus personal, creative, and professional growth. She draws from her experience as a Trauma therapist with ten thousand hours in the therapy chair to help her coaching clients achieve specific life goals, in functional and sustainable ways. Marielle uses person centered, humanistic, somatic, and spiritual lenses in her approach to working with Trauma, both as a psychotherapist and a Somatic Coach. She uses evidence-based techniques that draw from the body of research on behavior, mindfulness, cognitive, recovery-oriented, embodiment, somatic, and harm reduction psychotherapies. “My goal is to support you to heal. To help you learn that healing is dynamic. That it grows, changes, and moves with you. And to help you develop a sense of agency and capacity to choose your own path in this life.”