Nestled in the intown Atlanta neighborhood of Kirkwood, we’re a community of mindfulness-based psy
02/01/2026
🌞 Join us for Meditation Mondays!
Free • Donation-Based • All Are Welcome
✨ Calm your mind
✨ Connect with neighbors
✨ Give back to the community
Join us for guided meditation plus time before and after to share tea, meet new people, and start the week feeling grounded.
🗓 Every Monday | ⏰ 8:30-9:30 am | 📍 The Neighborhood Counseling Center
💛 Donations support Motherhood Beyond Bars
Come as you are. Leave lighter, calmer, and more connected. 🌿
01/25/2026
Cancellation Alert - Meditation Monday for tomorrow, January 26, is cancelled to follow the inclement weather policies of Atlanta Public Schools and DeKalb County government.
We'll look forward to meditating with you February 2 instead.
Y'all - stay safe from ICE. We're holding all of you and all those in Minneapolis in our hearts.
XO,
NCC
01/25/2026
🌞 Join us for Meditation Mondays
Free • Donation-Based • All Are Welcome
✨ Calm your mind
✨ Connect with neighbors
✨ Give back to the community
Join us for guided meditation plus time before and after to share tea, meet new people, and start the week feeling grounded.
🗓 Every Monday | ⏰ 8:30-9:30 am | 📍 The Neighborhood Counseling Center
💛 Donations support Motherhood Beyond Bars
Come as you are. Leave lighter, calmer, and more connected. 🌿
01/19/2026
We honor the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King today and every day. 🙏
01/18/2026
Taking tomorrow off from Meditation Mondays to celebrate MLK Day! Hoping your day is meanginful!
01/12/2026
🌞 First Meditation Monday of 2026 is tomorrow!
Free • Donation-Based • All Are Welcome
✨ Calm your mind
✨ Connect with neighbors
✨ Give back to the community
Join us for guided meditation plus time before and after to share tea, meet new people, and start the week feeling grounded.
🗓 Every Monday in 2026 (excluding holidays
⏰ 8:30-9:30 am
📍 The Neighborhood Counseling Center, 2033 Hosea L Williams, upstairs
💛 Donations support Motherhood Beyond Bars
Come as you are. Leave lighter, calmer, and more connected. 🌿
01/10/2026
Happy New Year!
🌿 Meditation Mondays resume Monday 1/12/26! 🌿
Start Your Week with Calm, Connection & Compassion. Join us Monday mornings for a free guided meditation designed to help you ground, breathe, and step into your week with clarity and calm.
Each session includes:
✨ 30 minutes of guided meditation to calm your nervous system and bring you into the present moment
✨ Time before and after to connect with neighbors, share conversation, and build community in a world that can feel increasingly disconnected
✨ A chance to give back — any donations will support a local community-based organization making a positive impact right here at home
This is a space for all — whether you’re brand new to meditation or have been practicing for years. Our time together is not just about stillness, but about weaving connections that nourish both ourselves and the wider community.
When: Mondays at 8:30-9:30 am
Where: The Neighborhood Counseling Center, 2033 Hosea Williams Dr, Upstairs
Cost: Free — donations gratefully accepted, 100% of which will go directly to a local non-profit that we love: Motherhood Beyond Bars
12/18/2025
Friendly reminder: This is not the happiest time of the year for lots of us.
Some of us are grieving. Some of us are lonely. Some of us are struggling financially or professionally or in personal relationships (or all three). Some of us are stressed as hell trying to put on a magical holiday for our kids.
If this is you: we see you. You are not invisible.
12/14/2025
Our last Meditation Monday of 2025 is TOMORROW morning at 8:30 am! Hope to see you there.
12/11/2025
'Tis the season for... boundaries? Maybe?
If boundaries are on your mind, here are a few pro tips:
1. Other people's boundaries are other people's business. Don't judge other people's boundaries. You don't know the full story. And try not to judge your own. You've got your own story.
2. Boundaries can have different meaning and impact for different cultural groups. (We love the book "But What Will People Say?" for this.) Stay in your own lane. You may be learning what works best for you, but that doesn't make you the expert on what's best for anybody else.
3. Boundaries don't have to be black and white. They don't have to be permanent. You get to experiment with boundaries. And then you take in the information you get form that experiment and adjust (or not). For instance: You may not be willing to see your mean-drunk uncle after he's boozed up on Christmas Day, but what about a sober breakfast with him on Christmas Eve?
4. Finally - other people don't have to like or agree with your boundaries for them to be valid. If you wait for permission or approval you'll be waiting forever.
12/11/2025
Exciting news! NCC is hosting parent coach, educator, school-founder, and podcast host Giles Leeper for a FREE workshop on January 14th: "Parenting for the AI Future"!
Please mark your calendars for 1/4/26 from 7-8:30 pm!
We know this can be a stressful, overwhelming, grief-stricken time of year...as well as a joyful, connecting time. And sometimes a bit of a rollercoaster between lows and highs. Wherever you are, we warmly invite you to come be in community, settle your nervous system, and practice the kind of loving presence that is a gift to yourself and everyone you encounter.
Join us, a week from today, for our final (free!) guided meditation of the year!
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All of us had good things going. Elizabeth Wilder Young worked in Buckhead and Dana Goldman was doing therapy in the Old Fourth Ward; Maggie Akstin was counseling in Inman Park and Emily Gosterisli was expecting a new baby. Tara Lozano had gotten used to the long commute to Alpharetta. Combined we had decades of experience doing therapy but we weren’t really looking to start a new counseling center.
And then Elizabeth stumbled into the upstairs suite at 2033 Hosea Williams Drive in the fabulous neighborhood of Kirkwood—the neighborhood that is home to three of us and close to home for the others. She fell hard and fast. The natural light! The wooden floors! The privacy and quiet! And the location, so much closer to home than Buckhead!
Soon, Elizabeth brought Dana to see the space. Dana took one look at what had been a conference room and envisioned a light-filled office close to home. Dana was sold.
Together, Elizabeth and Dana began wooing Maggie and then Emily. A year later, Tara—an old colleague of Ginny and Dana—gave up her commute to join us.
Now here we are: a group of five therapists who are committed to working hard to help our clients have easier lives and being of service to the larger communities of Intown Atlanta and Kirkwood. We’re so glad to be here, and we hope to meet you soon.
