GAIL VARNES
Office Manager
Dr. Heather Richardson, a licensed clinical psychologist, provides individual and group therapy to adults and adolescents. She leads a DBT skills group for adolescents. Dr. Richardson also conducts assessments including cognitive testing, bariatric, and personality. She integrates experiential techniques with person-centered therapeutic relationships along with an integrated theoretical framework to provide clients with individualized treatment to meet their needs. Dr. Richardson has experience treating those with personality disorders, eating disorders, trauma, relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, and major life transitions. She is dedicated to continuing her training and experience to stay up to date with advances in the field.
Eating Disorders Recovery
Center of Athens
John F. Grace,Psy.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Heather Richardson, Psy.D
Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Weitzman-Swain, a Licensed Psychologist, is the founder and clinical director of the Eating Disorders Recovery Center of Athens. Dr. Weitzman-Swain has extensive training and experience in the treatment of eating disorders. She is committed to developing awareness about the prevention and early identification of eating disorders by conducting seminars for community groups and other heathcare professionals. Dr. Weitzman-Swain provides individual, family, and group therapy for people in all stages of the recovery process. Her other specialties include depression, anxiety, relationship issues, sexual abuse issues, family and parenting issues, and behavioral problems in children. Dr. Weitzman-Swain is a life-long learner who continuously reflects on her work and adjusts her approach depending on the individual needs of her patients. She is dedicated to an ongoing process of learning, teaching, and providing effective care for persons struggling with eating disorders and other problems in living.
Our Team.
Dr. Grace was born and raised in New York. After graduation from college, he trained and worked as a professional horticulturist at Botanical Gardens in New York City and then moved to Bermuda where he continued that career. Upon returning to the United States, he lived in Atlanta and began his graduate studies in clinical psychology. He interned with a consortium in southern Mississippi where he trained in an inpatient psychiatric hospital, a community mental health center, and a university counseling center. He did his post doctoral work with a psychology practice in the Atlanta Medical Center. He moved to Athens in 2007 to join the Eating Disorders Recovery Center and to start a private practice called Grace Psychotherapy. He retains his lifelong interest in nature and working with plants. He spends his free time working in his extensive gardens and in his greenhouses. He is a long term practitioner of meditation. His style of psychotherapy is influenced by science, philosophy, nature, and the interaction of mind body process. www.gracepsychotherapy.com
Ann Weitzman-Swain, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist