Your child is struggling and you want to understand why.
Big emotions, behavior changes, fears, shutdown, or difficulty expressing what is happening may be telling you they need more support.
Trauma-informed therapy for children ages 4+, teens, adults, and families navigating trauma, anxiety, emotional regulation, identity, and the experiences that can leave your system feeling overwhelmed or on guard.
I offer in-person therapy in Decatur and virtual therapy across Georgia. My work is warm, affirming, collaborative, and may include EMDR, nervous-system awareness, and developmentally appropriate, play-based approaches.
Aliya Walker is a Georgia Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), psychotherapist, and Client Experience Coordinator at Kula Wellness Group.
I work with children ages 4+, teens, adults, and families. My clinical focus includes trauma, anxiety, emotional regulation, identity, self-worth, and helping clients build a greater sense of safety, connection, and choice.
I am EMDR-trained and may integrate EMDR alongside nervous-system awareness, developmentally appropriate, play-based approaches, caregiver support, and other trauma-informed interventions depending on the client's needs and treatment plan.
Trauma, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm can look different at different ages. For a child it may show up in behavior or play. For a teen it may look like shutdown, anger, worry, or identity questions. For an adult, it may feel like carrying something your body still has not been able to put down.
Big emotions, behavior changes, fears, shutdown, or difficulty expressing what is happening may be telling you they need more support.
Adolescence can bring intense emotions, anxiety, self-worth struggles, identity questions, and pressure that can be difficult to carry alone.
A past experience may still affect your body, emotions, relationships, sense of safety, or ability to feel like yourself.
You or your child may feel flooded, shut down, reactive, numb, or unsure how to return to a more grounded state.
Shame, belonging, sexuality, gender, relationships, family expectations, or other parts of identity may need an affirming place to be explored.
Sometimes one person's distress affects the whole system. Therapy can make room to understand patterns, strengthen communication, and support repair.
At the core of my work is creating a space that feels genuinely safe and collaborative. You do not need to tell your whole story immediately, and younger clients do not need to process the world in adult language.
With children, I may use developmentally appropriate and play-based approaches to help expression, regulation, and connection feel more accessible. With teens and adults, we can work more directly with thoughts, emotions, relationships, body cues, identity, and trauma patterns.
I am EMDR-trained and may integrate EMDR when it is clinically appropriate and aligned with a client's goals, readiness, and treatment plan. Therapy is paced collaboratively rather than built around pushing through before you are ready.
Support for experiences that continue to affect emotions, relationships, body responses, safety, self-worth, or the ability to feel present.
Developmentally appropriate, play-based, trauma-informed support for young children experiencing emotional, behavioral, relational, or anxiety-related concerns.
A collaborative space for anxiety, emotional regulation, trauma, identity, relationships, self-worth, and the intensity of adolescence.
Support for communication, regulation, caregiver understanding, relational patterns, and helping families respond to distress with greater connection.
Understanding what happens when emotions become overwhelming and building skills and capacity for returning to a steadier state.
Affirming support around belonging, shame, sexuality, gender, family roles, self-understanding, and the process of becoming more fully yourself.
Aliya's practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and grounded in an anti-oppressive lens. Clients across sexual orientations, gender identities, family structures, cultures, backgrounds, and lived experiences are welcome.
Therapy does not need to feel like something being done to you. Children, caregivers, teens, and adults each deserve a relationship where their voice, experience, and sense of safety matter.
There is room to arrive before you know what to say, and there is no need to make your experience easier for someone else to understand.
Your identity and context belong in the room. You should not have to shrink, explain, or defend who you are in order to receive care.
Clients and caregivers are active participants. We work together to understand what is happening and what kind of support makes sense.
What works for a 6-year-old should not look identical to what works for a 16-year-old or an adult. Therapy adapts to age, capacity, and context.
At the core of my clinical work is creating a space where people can feel genuinely safe, seen, and respected. I work from an affirming, anti-oppressive lens and bring trauma-informed care to children, teens, adults, and families.
My approach may include EMDR, nervous-system awareness, play-based and developmentally appropriate work, caregiver support, and collaborative exploration of identity, relationships, anxiety, and emotional regulation.
I also serve as Kula's Client Experience Coordinator. In that role, I help support the experience of connecting with Kula and serve as a point of contact for networking, community relationships, and partnership opportunities. I may also represent Kula through speaking, education, and collaborative events.
These are distinct roles. Therapy is a clinical relationship. Networking, partnerships, and speaking are professional or community relationships and do not create a therapist-client relationship.
Trauma-informed, affirming care for children ages 4+, teens, adults, and families in Decatur and virtually across Georgia.
Schedule a Discovery Call →Aliya is a point of contact for professional networking, community relationships, referral connections, and partnership opportunities involving Kula Wellness Group.
Connect With Aliya →Aliya may be available for speaking, community education, professional conversations, media, collaborative events, and other opportunities aligned with her clinical and community-facing work.
Speaking, Media & Events →In-person therapy at Kula's Decatur office, with virtual therapy available to eligible clients across Georgia.
Aliya works across age groups and adapts the approach to developmental needs.
Initial intake: $165. Other session lengths may be discussed after intake when clinically appropriate.
Kula does not bill insurance directly. Superbills may be available for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Learn more about superbills, reduced-fee options, scholarships, and other ways Kula works to make care more accessible.
Direct answers about therapy, EMDR, children and families, affirming care, Client Experience coordination, partnerships, speaking, fees, and getting started.
For therapy, a free 15-minute Discovery Call can help you explore fit. For networking, partnerships, or speaking, use Kula's contact or speaking pages so your inquiry can be routed appropriately.
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