Deborah Midkiff, MS, NCC
Living out my belief that one should be curious rather than judgmental, I prefer to work with a spirit of inquiry, offering help in navigating relationships, guidance through anxiety or depression, and support for crucial choice points. While it may seem to be my job to get to know you, it is in reality my privilege to hear your story. I stand ready to accompany you through difficult times, shining a light toward different perspectives and offering new frameworks, so that together we can explore fresh options.
I seek to empower personal renewal by providing a sacred space for connecting with your authentic self, listening deeply to your inner voice, and becoming a companion on your journey toward wholeness. Areas of specific concentration for individual counseling may include exploration of personal belief systems, treatment of loss and grief, life transitions, family of origin concerns, and focusing on emotional well-being. I provide faith-based counseling and spiritual integration for those who desire it. Separately, I offer spiritual direction and formation to people who seek to explore relationship with the God they have encountered.
In practice for more than 20 years, I have direct experience assisting adults through crisis intervention, life transitions, relationship building, individual and family recovery issues, self-development, and spiritual emergence. I provided seminars, support groups and individual, couple and family therapy in faith-based settings. Through Community Service Boards, I served both geriatric populations and consumers with severe and persistent mental illness. While serving in non-profit agencies guiding families transitioning out of domestic violence and homelessness, I also taught life skills and emotional management in an alternative high school setting. More recently, I provided the Atlanta Women's Support Group to women interested in reciprocating support for each other through life's transitions and celebrations.
Currently, in addition to offering psycho-educational seminars and specific skill building workshops, I facilitate support and discussion groups focusing on spiritual integration and personal growth. I serve as the Assistant Clinical Administrator for Hope Counseling Centers and the RGU Trauma Center through Richmont Graduate University. My counseling services are available at the RGU Hope Counseling Center under the supervision of Dr. Sonja Sutherland.
My education includes a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland, an MS in Community Counseling from Georgia State University, and an MS in Christian Psychological Studies from the Psychological Studies Institute (now Richmont Graduate University). I am a member of the 2019 cohort for Graduate Certification in Spiritual Direction and Formation through the RGU School of Ministry. I have been a Nationally Certified Counselor (35991) since 1994.
I seek to empower personal renewal by providing a sacred space for connecting with your authentic self, listening deeply to your inner voice, and becoming a companion on your journey toward wholeness. Areas of specific concentration for individual counseling may include exploration of personal belief systems, treatment of loss and grief, life transitions, family of origin concerns, and focusing on emotional well-being. I provide faith-based counseling and spiritual integration for those who desire it. Separately, I offer spiritual direction and formation to people who seek to explore relationship with the God they have encountered.
In practice for more than 20 years, I have direct experience assisting adults through crisis intervention, life transitions, relationship building, individual and family recovery issues, self-development, and spiritual emergence. I provided seminars, support groups and individual, couple and family therapy in faith-based settings. Through Community Service Boards, I served both geriatric populations and consumers with severe and persistent mental illness. While serving in non-profit agencies guiding families transitioning out of domestic violence and homelessness, I also taught life skills and emotional management in an alternative high school setting. More recently, I provided the Atlanta Women's Support Group to women interested in reciprocating support for each other through life's transitions and celebrations.
Currently, in addition to offering psycho-educational seminars and specific skill building workshops, I facilitate support and discussion groups focusing on spiritual integration and personal growth. I serve as the Assistant Clinical Administrator for Hope Counseling Centers and the RGU Trauma Center through Richmont Graduate University. My counseling services are available at the RGU Hope Counseling Center under the supervision of Dr. Sonja Sutherland.
My education includes a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland, an MS in Community Counseling from Georgia State University, and an MS in Christian Psychological Studies from the Psychological Studies Institute (now Richmont Graduate University). I am a member of the 2019 cohort for Graduate Certification in Spiritual Direction and Formation through the RGU School of Ministry. I have been a Nationally Certified Counselor (35991) since 1994.
