Dr. Garret Carlisle, LMFT

LIMITED AVAILABILITY - Mondays from 10am to 4:45pm

Dr. Garret Carlisle is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Georgia who guides individuals and couples toward deeper self-understanding and more fulfilling relationships. He focuses on the inner life - how people make sense of their thoughts, values, and emotional patterns - and helps clients translate that inner clarity into greater freedom, resilience, and connection with others. Dr. Carlisle names issues such as relationships, intimacy, self-esteem, and coping with life changes among his specialties, and he also works with concerns like compassion fatigue, career transitions, fatherhood issues, infidelity, sexuality, sexual dysfunction, and questions about life purpose.

His approach takes a deeper dive than more surface-level therapies by attending closely to the meanings and stories that shape a person from the inside-out. Couples are welcome alongside individuals, and sessions aim to strengthen work, friendships, marriage, parenting, and sexual life by restoring peace and intentionality in the inner world. He combines encouragement and challenge to help people recover a sense of meaning and the strengths they already possess, including the spiritual resources he references in his work. Those interested in beginning this process are invited to reach out and start their journey.

Approaches for Meaningful Change and Online Support

Existential Therapy asks questions about purpose, freedom, and the tensions that come with being human. It helps people facing life transitions, questions about meaning, or a sense of emptiness by exploring values, responsibility, and how to live authentically.

Narrative Therapy focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and their relationships. By identifying and reworking unhelpful narratives, this approach helps clients rewrite patterns that limit their choices and rebuild a sense of agency in their personal and relational life.

Psychodynamic Therapy attends to recurring emotional patterns and early influences that shape current behavior and relationships. It is useful for uncovering unconscious dynamics that contribute to intimacy problems, self-esteem concerns, and persistent interpersonal difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Dr. Garret Carlisle works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. He adapts the work as therapy unfolds so that clients and therapist can refine the focus together.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for busy schedules and for clients who prefer different modes of communication. These options make ongoing care more accessible and allow the therapeutic work to continue even when in-person visits are not possible.