ANC Team
Who We Are
Dr. Candice Cooper-Lovett
PhD, LMFT-S, Certified Life Coach, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Prepare & Enrich Facilitator and Trainer, Tantric Shaman, Heart & Soul Healer, Founder & CEO
Dr. Cooper-Lovett is a wife and mother who is native of Buffalo, NY. Dr. Cooper-Lovett relocated to Atlanta in 2014 and opened A New Creation Psychotherapy Services in 2015. A licensed marriage and family therapist and AASECT certified sex therapist with a transpersonal psychology and post-traumatic growth perspective, Dr. Cooper-Lovett is also an American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Clinical Fellow and Approved Supervisor. Additionally, she is a prepare and enrich facilitator and trainer. More recently, Dr. Cooper-Lovett is also a tantric shaman, heart & soul worker with the heart integration system, and is looking forward to further healing for individuals and couples if interested in those services you can visit thetantricmft.com.
As for community work in her profession, Dr. Cooper-Lovett is on the advisory board for AAMFT’s Minority Fellowship Program and a reviewer for the journal of interpersonal violence. Dr. Cooper-Lovett has over 15 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families. Dr. Cooper-Lovett is also a mental health speaker and has been doing so for almost 20 years. If interested in Dr. Cooper-Lovetts speaking, supervision mentorship and consultation services you can go to drcooplove.com
Dr. Cooper-Lovett specializes in trauma that affect individuals, couples, and families. Additionally, she specializes in infidelity recovery, and situational violence between couples as well as sexuality and sexual issues for individuals and couples. She also specializes in women's sexuality and pleasure. Dr. Cooper-Lovett also works with those in the spirituality community who may be dealing with spiritual emergence or crises or understanding their purpose and gifts in this lifetime. Dr. Cooper-Lovett has a focus on post-traumatic growth and transpersonal psychology which is influenced by indigenous African tradition and spirituality amongst many other spiritual practices. These frameworks are embedded in Dr. Cooper-Lovett’s speaking, research, supervision, and clinical work.
**Depending on the day and time, Dr. Cooper-Lovett will be with her little one during the sessions as he is home with her).
Phone: 678-561-4468 ext:700
Ms. Morgan Offord
BA, Administrative Assistant
Morgan I. Offord works as the administrative assistant for A New Creation. She is originally from Olney, Maryland but now resides in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2019, Morgan graduated from Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. She is now a graduate student at Grand Canyon University pursuing a Master of Science in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy. Morgan has always had a passion for understanding how surrounding relationships impact our overall mental well-being. In the future, Morgan aspires to become a Licensed Professional Marriage and Family Therapist. She is excited to be a part of this amazing team!
Email: contact@anewcreationpsychotherapy.com
Phone: 678-561-4468 ext:0
Mrs. Kyra Johnson
LAMFT, Marriage & Dating Coach, Fitness & Wellness Coach
Kyra Johnson obtained her Bachelors in Psychology from Kennesaw State University and Masters of Family Therapy from Mercer University. Kyra Johnson has experience in working with individuals, couples, and families dealing with behavioral and mental health issues. Her passion includes working with adolescents and young adults, dealing with difficult life transitions, suicide ideation, anxiety, depression, self harm, and stress. She is also passionate about working with couples dealing with sexual issues, communication differences, and infidelity. She is certified in Gottman Level 1 as well as Prepare and Enrich. Her Gottman Level 1 training helps her provide couples with practical tools to reconnect with their partner and create a lasting love. She is committed to helping couples discover the connection and intimacy they love for. The Prepare and Enrich training helps to identify strength areas in couples through assessments and is used for marriage counseling, marriage enrichment, dating couples considering marriage. A special addition to her knowledge as a clinician is that she is also a Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Trainer (ISSA-PT & AFFA-GFI), so she also has the knowledge needed to provide workout plans and education about nutrition for those looking for healthy physical transformation.
She considers herself an authentic and direct therapist. She focuses on breaking down each client's structure and assists in helping the client restructure their system to help meet their goals. In doing so, they will learn to identify and change their perspectives, establish boundaries, and take accountability in their own life. Her purpose as a therapist is to help guide clients to find ways to build a strong foundation that will help to create a more fulfilling life. She is a firm believer in the importance of guidance, support, and building an impactful relationship with each person she works with.
Kyra is currently working under supervision towards her LMFT
Phone: 678-561-4468 ext:703
Dr. Krystal Ferrell-Williams
PhD, MS, MAMFT
Women's Certified Life & Dating Coach,Pre-Marital Counselor
Dr. Krystal Ferrell, is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, and a Southern girl with a modern and non-traditional perspective. She enjoy's working with individuals and couples who want to be heard, feel seen, and accepted unapologetically for who they are, what they believe, and the pathway to which they choose to live their lives. She believes every client possesses all the answers and solutions within, but with her help, the client can sort through, navigate, and understand those answers. She takes pride in creating a genuine and safe environment for you to be your authentic self and foster the change you desire and deserve.
As an alumna of an HBCU and pledging the first African American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, she has experienced different realms of diversity and connected with many individuals from various walks of life. After graduating from Tuskegee University and receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, she progressed to receiving her first Master’s degree in Child and Adolescent Psychology, and her second Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. During that time, she also became a Certified Life Coach and found a true passion for working with women to rediscover their feminine power and help increase their self-esteem and confidence as a Femininity Coach. She is also a Pre-Marital Counselor through the certification program of Prepare & Enrich. She enjoys seeing couples win together, laugh together, and grow together. Helping couples prepare for the next stage of their relationship is a journey that she believes is filled with new discoveries and its’ own set of challenges that she has helped couples navigate through. She continued her educational path and received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology.
In her work as a therapist, she witnessed firsthand the negative impact social media has on individuals and families. She saw how social media can lead to isolation, depression, and anxiety. She also noticed how it can damage relationships and can lead to addiction. She became passionate about helping people who were struggling with social media addiction, and she entered her doctoral program with a keen interest in this topic. She believes that social media can be a powerful tool, but it can also be very harmful. She wants to help people understand the risks of excessive usage of social media and how to protect themselves. Dr. Ferrell works with adolescents, couples, families, and individuals and provides the tools necessary to develop a healthy relationship with social media.
A typical session with Dr. Ferrell might look like high fives when you’ve experienced your “Aha” moment or the metaphoric feeling of a big sister holding your hand as you are processing some of your deepest and most intimate experiences and memories. Dr. Ferrell's primary style of therapy is experiential therapy (although she does incorporate various skills and techniques from other therapeutic approaches).
Dr. Ferrell's areas of expertise include couples’ infidelity recovery, premarital counseling, navigating through the effects of social media addiction, anxiety, Pre-Partum, and pregnancy, suicidal ideation, self-esteem issues, dating, communication, and reconstructing & developing mindset shifts.
Krystal is currently working under supervision towards her LMFT
Phone: 678-561-4468 ext:701
Ms. Angelia Nalls
LAMFT, MDiv
Angelia Nalls specializes in strengthening connections between couples, families and businesses. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Duke University and a Master's in Divinity from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. She also holds a masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from North Central University. Angelia Nalls believes in the Marriage and Family therapy tenets of viewing problems as the results of interactions between groups, couples and families, believing common mental health diagnosis are a function of the family and that by addressing the synergy in the relationship there can be a reduced need for medication. By providing a platform for individuals to enter into healthy romantic, platonic or familial relationships she assists clients in achieving positive mental, spiritual and emotional connections. When you wish to use your community resources, relationships and social network to heal from your challenges then allow Angelia Nalls to demonstrate how Marriage and Family therapy can address your dilemma.
Angelia is currently working under supervision towards her LMFT
Phone: 678-561-4468 ext:702
Mrs. Pamela Mackie
MSMFT, Prepare & Enrich Facilitator, Certified Life Coach
Pamela Mackie is a highly motivated clinician who transitioned from extensive retail staffing executive experience into the mental health care discipline as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Pamela received her masters degree in marriage and family from Capella University. She maintains active memberships with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the Pi Chapter Delta Kappa International Marriage and Family Therapy Honor Society. In addition, Pamela Mackie has gained critical experience serving in her church’s Ministry for mental health. She co-facilitates weekly group grief counseling and other mental health seminars, workshops, and events that affect her community’s mental health.
Pamela’s mantra “if not now, then when?” represents her commitment that regardless of age, and life’s circumstances, she would continue to follow her passion and make a way to claim her second act of becoming a healer of mental health.
Pamela’s current focus are working with individuals, couples, and families who find themselves “stuck.” Being stuck can cause stress, anxiety, depression, among other mental and health conditions. Helping clients find joy is optimal for Pamela utilizing Narrative Therapy, Emotional Focused Therapy, and Structural Therapy as an approach towards healing.
Pamela is currently working under supervision towards her LMFT
Phone: 678-561-4468 ext:704
Email: pamwmackie@anewcreationpsychotherapy.com
