Erika Turner, LCSW offers online therapist services across Florida & Georgia.

Meet Erika L. Turner

Owner & Mental Health Therapist

“My true passion and life purpose is to help hurting people achieve the best possible quality of life. With all of life’s difficulties, we often need assistance in developing coping skills, healthy thought patterns, and emotional equilibrium. I see myself as a guide who helps people navigate through difficulty to holistically healthy living, based on their own personal commitment, faith, and self-determination.”

-Erika L. Turner

About Beauty For Ashes Counseling and Mental Health Services, LLC

Beauty For Ashes Counseling and Mental Health Services, LLC is a Telehealth based mental health private practice, owned and managed by Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Erika L. Turner, serving clients in Georgia and Florida.

The term “Beauty For Ashes” is a biblical reference from the scripture Isaiah 61:3 which states, “to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair” (New International Version, 2011, Isaiah 61:3). In ancient Jewish culture, people often covered themselves in ashes when they were experiencing sadness, loss, anguish, or despair. The ashes represented the hurt, pain, and brokenness that they were feeling inside. In today’s modern world, we too cover ourselves with intangible ashes that can look like anger, envy, depression, fear, anxiety, etc. The premise of Beauty for Ashes Counseling and Mental Health Services, LLC is to help every client receive emotional healing from past and/or current abuse, trauma, neglect, grief, and loss, and to usher them into a life of beauty that is full of love, peace, balance, kindness, happiness, and forgiveness.

 

About Erika L. Turner, LCSW, CCTP, CCATP 

Erika L. Turner has over eighteen years of experience providing mental health services to adults, children, and families. She received a Bachelor’s degree in English from Spelman College in 1996 and a Masters of Social Work degree from Howard University in 2007. Ms. Turner has worked in a variety of settings including residential treatment facilities, community mental health agencies, medical facilities, military bases, and her own private practice. She has experience providing individual, couples, family, and group counseling. Ms. Turner has received the credentials of Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP). In addition, Ms. Turner serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Social Work Departments at Saint Leo University and Tuskegee University, and she provides clinical supervision to post graduate social workers preparing them for state licensure.

Ms. Turner provides counseling from a variety of therapeutic modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Modality, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), Somatic Interventions, and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping). She is particularly passionate about using evidenced-based therapeutic interventions to address traumatic stress symptoms, life transitions, and stress management. In addition, she offers Christian counseling when desired by the client.

Ms. Turner feels that her purpose in life is to use her natural gifts and academic training to help hurting people heal, learn, and grow through their experiences. She has a strong belief that a healthy mind leads to happy feelings and productive living. Many of the interventions that she utilizes challenge the client to replace negative and false beliefs with healthy and positive thinking. She is dedicated to using her experience and expertise to help others achieve emotional healing, self-discovery, and empowered living.

If you’re looking for compassionate online counseling in GA & FL, Beauty For Ashes Counseling and Mental Health Services, LLC is here to support you. Let Ms. Turner help you turn life’s challenges into opportunities for growth and transformation through professional, virtual mental health services.