Evans, Georgia
YOU can thrive
You have carried this long enough. This is a space for those who feel broken and are hurting — made for more than just surviving. Trauma counseling and faith-rooted care for your story: your mind, your body, your spirit. The buried grief is given room to breathe. One step is enough. We’ll meet you there.
Our Philosophy
From just surviving — to thriving. Post-traumatic growth is possible.
The Healing Cottage is a collaboration of counselors, coaches, and classes — a safe place where you take an active part in your own healing. Life experiences are stored in the body, shape the mind, and touch the spirit; that is why talk-only methods have limits. Here, anxiety and depression, distorted self-worth, shame, guilt, and inadequacy are met with care that honors the whole person. We are at the beginning of something beautiful, with many heartfelt dreams still unfolding — and you deserve a space where healing feels gentle, safe, and authentic to you.
mind
Trauma can leave the mind on guard — hypervigilance, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts — and cloud memory, attention, and decision-making. Beneath it all sit anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Healing helps the mind lay down its watch.
body
The body keeps the score: a constant fight-or-flight state floods it with cortisol and adrenaline — inflammation, headaches, muscle tension, stomach trouble, and broken sleep. Healing helps the body feel safe again.
spirit
Trauma can disconnect us from purpose, identity, and faith. Spiritual renewal — reconnecting with who you were made to be — is not an afterthought here. It is part of the healing itself.
“You deserve a space where healing feels gentle, safe, and authentic to you.”
Services
Signature Method
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — endorsed by the World Health Organization, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Gentle bilateral stimulation (audio and tappers) helps the brain reprocess what it stored, without narrating every detail. Preparation and safety come first, paced to your window of tolerance — you remain in control. Day-long EMDR intensives are also available.
More about EMDR →The Somatic Room
“Where the body begins to heal.” A dedicated, curated room — calm, safe, and grounding — for trauma stored in the body: chronic tension, racing heart, shallow breathing, startle response, freezing. Sessions weave grounding and body awareness, breathwork, Somatic Experiencing, interoception, and movement that completes the stress cycle, with EMDR offered in somatic attunement.
Visit the Healing Haven →Men’s Group
A faith-based men’s accountability group meeting every other Monday evening at the Cottage, facilitated by Dr. Kolody. Battle training after the Conquer Series boot camp — counseling tools, Scripture, prayer, conversation, and accountability. For men facing anger, addiction, or disconnection from wife, kids, and faith — covering identity in Christ, spiritual warfare, Biblical masculinity, emotional healing, marriage restoration, and living in freedom.
Women’s Group
A faith-based betrayal trauma group for women after infidelity, sexual betrayal, deception, or other breaches of trust — led by Amanda Hullum, who brings personal understanding of betrayal. Work through grief, anger, triggers, and boundaries; rebuild trust in yourself; separate forgiveness from reconciliation; and learn to decide from clarity, not fear. There is no pressure here to stay, leave, forgive, or reconcile.
All Services at the Cottage
What People Say
“I was so scared to make an appointment, and when the day of the appointment arrived, I was terrified. I am so glad I pushed through that fear. When I arrived, your calm presence and peacefulness quickly put me at ease.”
— Survivor of Childhood Abuse
Read more in our excellent Google reviews.
Collaborative Professionals
Your future self will thank you. No one heals alone: restoration comes through connection, guidance, and accountability. The professionals at the Cottage are not employees, but trusted collaborators — each in her own woman-owned business, under one roof.
Clinical Pastoral Counselor · CCTP-II · EMDR Trained
Melony helps people heal from past wounds, navigate present challenges, and build emotional intimacy and effective communication. Her approach is holistic, trauma-focused, and attachment-centered — addressing trauma’s impact on body, mind, and spirit. A Clinical Pastoral Counselor refuses to choose between faith and science: clinical training held together with a Christian, faith-rooted framework, treating spirit and psyche together.
She returned to college in her 40s — BA in Psychology and MA in Clinical Pastoral Counseling, both Magna Cum Laude, and a PhD in Clinical Pastoral Counseling, Magna Cum Laude — and brings 29 years of teaching, mentoring, public speaking, counseling, and ministry. She works with adults healing from childhood trauma (C-PTSD), sexual trauma, Dissociative Disorders, marital struggles, low self-esteem, and shame, and was mentored by DID specialist Dr. Roger Boehm.
Her workbooks: “Spiritually Motivated” — an interactive workbook on identity in Christ and motivational spiritual gifts, grown from her 2006 curriculum — and “I’m Not What Happened to Me”, a practical workbook for healing from C-PTSD, used with clients or on your own. Both available in-office.
Schedule with Melony: (706) 339-1020 · TheHealingCottageCSRA@gmail.com
Parenting Coach · Biblical Counselor
A CASA Advocacy Specialist in local judicial circuits — where she supervised volunteer advocates and co-facilitated trainings — Amanda brings 15+ years in child advocacy, mentoring, and public speaking. A mother of four, she helps parents break generational cycles, build emotional awareness, and raise securely attached children — at the Cottage offices or in clients’ homes. Author of “Bonded: A Tool for Cultivating Connections with Children.”
Schedule with Amanda: (706) 564-7827 · Amandatwff@gmail.com
Wellness Advocate & Counselor · LMSW
Emma leads Encompassing Hearts Therapy, LLC with 17 years in mental health and child development — including 11 years of nutritional counseling. She offers counseling, behavioral interventions, and nutritional guidance with an empathetic, gentle, collaborative approach, treating clients as partners. Her specialties include ODD, anxiety, Autism, depression, and ADHD in children and teens ages 4–17.
Schedule with Emma: (913) 547-0863 · EmmaHaffeyMSW@gmail.com
Fees & Booking
Session Fees
Self-pay only — insurance is not accepted. Online payments accepted.
Session costs, availability, and client documents for each counselor live in the client portal — pick your counselor there to see current openings and request an appointment.
Schedule With
The Healing Cottage of the CSRA — Evans, Georgia, with virtual sessions available. Find us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Psychology Today, Therapy Tribe, and the Better Business Bureau.
