Empower Counseling & Coaching

06/01/2025

Payton Wortman, Therapist Empower Counseling in Birmingham, Alabama.

🌟 You Deserve a Peaceful Relationship with Food & Your Body

Struggling with eating disorders or body image concerns? You're not alone, and healing is possible.

Payton Wortman at Empower Counseling LLC specializes in helping individuals break free from:

Eating disorders
Negative body image
Food anxiety and restrictive eating
Binge eating patterns
Body dysmorphia
Why Choose Payton?

✨ Specialized expertise in eating disorder recovery
✨ Compassionate, non-judgmental approach
✨ Evidence-based treatment tailored to your needs
✨ Safe space to explore your relationship with food and body

Convenient Options:

📍 In-person sessions in Birmingham, Alabama
💻 Online therapy available throughout Alabama

Ready to take the first step toward food freedom and body acceptance?

Your journey to healing starts with one conversation.

📞 Schedule your consultation today
🌐 Visit: empowercounselingllc.com

Taking new clients / Confidential support

Counseling and Life coaching for Teens and Adults
4 Office Park Circle #306
Birmingham, Al. 35223
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11/12/2024

Meet Marti.
Therapist with Empower Counseling. Coffee Lover. Traveler.
She helps anxious young adults overcome perfectionism and overthinking so they can finally see their worth.
Marti teaches unconfident young adults to recognize their strengths and find their purpose.
She guides motivated young adults to live by their values so they feel a sense of connection between themselves and their lives.
Marti is also trained in EMDR.
She is accepting new clients. Commitment Therapy

11/05/2024

Well it has been a minute. I know, we have dropped the ball with insta. And have not been around much.
However, that changes right now.
We would like to introduce the newest member of our team at Empower, Tommy Wald. Tommy is a therapist, Way Finder, Lover of Music and Books.
Tommy provides counseling for teens, young adults and adults who feel lost or stuck to overcome obstacles, find their paths, and live lives of purpose and meaning. He helps teenage boys and young men navigate struggles and difficulties by gaining clarity about their values and who they want to be.
Tommy joins, Lucia, Savannah, Marti, and Kathryn making Empower’s team stronger.

04/25/2024

Empower Counseljng is growing!
2 offices in Office Park to serve our community.
#4 Office Park Cir. Ste. 306

And our newest offices at #6 Office Park Cir. Ste 317.

01/13/2024

Empower Counseling is excited and honored to announce our newest team member, Dr. Lucia Haladjian.

Lucia specializes in eating disorders, Bipolar disorder, trauma, and women’s issues.
She provides assessments for ADHD as well.

Lucia completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University in New York, specializing 3 years on eating disorders (and 1 of those years in trauma as well).

She is incredibly knowledgeable but what I like even more about Lucia is her warm, approachable, and calming nature.

There are less than a handful of true Eating disorder specialists offering outpatient therapy in Birmingham.
Empower Counseling is committed to providing our community with the services it needs most.
Lucia is taking new clients! Offering in person at our Mountain Brook office and online for anyone living in the state of Alabama.
Email her through the contact form on her page at www.empowercounselingllc.com

12/29/2023

I am so honored to be featured in an amazing article by Wonda_Malhotra, lifestyle journalist, in Authority Magazine.
We had a lovely discussion about past mistakes, lessons learned, and 5 lifestyle tweaks that can set you up with stronger wellbeing in 2024..

https://medium.com/authority-magazine/women-in-wellness-kathryn-ely-on-the-five-lifestyle-tweaks-that-will-help-support-peoples-77663311380d
Cheers to our well-being in 2024!!! 🤩🎇🥳

09/15/2023

Do you struggle with procrastination????
This blog post is for you!
What Therapy can do for Procrastination: Stop Procrastination with Empower Counseling
Procrastination becomes problematic when it conflicts with our own desires. When we habitually avoid tasks that are in our best interest to complete, procrastination is more than a bad habit or a lifestyle choice.
Procrastination is a complex behavior deeply rooted in our psychology. It can be driven by fear, anxiety, and perfectionism.
Read more: www.empowercounselingllc.com/therapy-for-procrastination/

08/29/2023

Question of the week.

08/29/2023

Question of the week.

08/24/2023

College is a transformative and liberating time for young adults. .
It is marked by new experiences, friendships, and personal growth.
It is also critical period when mental health issues can surface. A recent study by the American College Health Association of 100,000 college students revealed 16% of male students and 33% of female students had received a diagnosis of anxiety. 14% of males and 25% of females had been diagnosed with depression.

Those are some really high numbers. I wonder how high they would be if those who have anxiety or depression but have not been diagnosed were included.
Read more about the pitfalls that students can fall into in college that jeopardize their mental health, as well as, why counseling is so important.

More blog posts to come this month to help college students in this transition.

08/21/2023

Now that we are finally back on instagram, I want to introduce you to our question of the week!
Each Monday we will challenge your level of awareness and mindfulness with a question.
We hope you will take a moment to ask yourself and answer each question.

What benefits can you enjoy with raising your level of awareness a little bit at a time in this way???
Life is so busy these days that it is easy to not stop and think.
But awareness leads to growth. Growth leads to opportunity….opportunity to further curate the lives we want, rather than falling into an unintentional life.
We spend our time in childhood only wanting and needing simple things. We need food when we are hungry, drink when we are thirsty, play when we are energetic and look for a soft place to land when we are tired, and of course, love.
In our teens, 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and@sometimes even 50’s we humans do our best to make life more and more complicated, by adding to our lives as much as we can fit in.
Our challenge with today’s question is simple. Is there one thing you can cut out of your life that would make it better?