Gwendolyn Scrutchins, LPC

Gwendolyn Scrutchins is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 9 years of experience in mental health counseling, including extensive work supporting incarcerated offenders. She has worked with a broad range of concerns such as depression, anxiety, psychological disorders, substance use, OCD, and ADHD, and she also supports clients who are coping with physical trauma or emotional abuse. Her work has included helping people build social skills and strengthen medication awareness as part of a larger treatment plan.

Her counseling style centers on empathy and active listening, with a commitment to treating each person with respect and compassion. She avoids stereotyping and aims to understand clients as individuals, focusing on what matters most to them and what will support meaningful change. Her approach draws from cognitive-behavioral methods and other evidence-informed perspectives, integrating humanistic, psychodynamic, reality-based, and rational-emotive counseling strategies to meet each client’s needs.

Gwendolyn also has experience creating and processing administrative reports, treatment plans, and progress notes that support goal-focused care. Her additional training includes certificates in motivating behavior change, effective communication and motivational strategies, multicultural awareness, adverse childhood experiences, tele-mental health practice, and specialized topics related to working with difficult situations and populations in confinement settings.