Counseling Associates, LLC
Providing The Help You Need
Meet The Counseling Associates Team
Call us at 901-497-6827 or visit the "Contact" page to send us an email. We'll respond quickly to answer your questions, set up appointments, and help you find the counselor and services that best meet your needs.
Counseling Associates LLC is owned by Julie Parker, LPC, MHSP, a counselor with nearly 30 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families. Julie works with patients of all ages, is a Certified Anger Management Specialist (CAMS-II) and has had extensive training in helping those with chronic conditions and illnesses. She also helps clients work through trauma and find ways to reduce traumatic responses.
When she's not at work, you'll find her spending time with family and friends, bicycling, and attending concerts.
Shonna Burnett, LPC, B-TMH, has 15+ years’ experience helping clients. She has worked in settings including the Department of Corrections/Juvenile Justice, inpatient, outpatient, and residential care. Helping adults and adolescents with addictions, along with doing individual, couples, and family therapy using several therapy models, Shonna primarily uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She enjoys a challenge, though, and is open to using whichever model, tool, or skill that meets clients’ needs.
Angela Campbell, LMSW’s goal with clients is to achieve positive outcomes with an increased sense of wellbeing. She helps clients of all ages identify and prioritize personal values, walking through steps that align with their self-revelation and determination. Primarily using DBT, Angela is also trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Trauma Treatment. Some of the diagnoses she works with are depression, anxiety, complex grief, trauma, and eating disorders. Angela brings a wealth of experience, including advocacy, behavioral intervention, leading group therapy, conflict resolution, and leadership. She enjoys serving and helping others and spending time with her family.
Monica Krulewitz, LCSW, works with adults and also has 20+ years' experience. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she uses and is certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, a therapy style developed to assist with emotional regulation. Monica enjoys helping clients learn to better tolerate stress, be "present" in the given moment, and increase healthy interpersonal relations. She also has extensive success helping clients heal as they overcome addictions and trauma.
Monica is a wife, a mother to two boys, and often practices DBT skills in her own life as a way of reminding herself to balance emotions with logic.
Medication Management
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Medication Management 〰️
Haley Vargo, PMHNP-BC, provides medication assessment and management. She completed her BSN from University of Memphis in 2015, and later her MSN from Walden University, with a focus on psychiatry. She believes the foundation of success is building a therapeutic alliance with patients while providing an empathetic and collaborative approach to mental health care.
Haley enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, gardening, and traveling.
Administrative Staff
Administrative Staff
Brittany Heathscott is our office manager. She's adept at managing insurance, patient accounts, scheduling, and staff, and we couldn’t have a successful practice without her. Brittany is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and has over 15 years’ experience in medical office administration.
In her spare time, she enjoys time with her husband, son, and four dogs.
Lesley Jenkins is our morning receptionist
Sierra Cooper, MSW, counsels children and adults, and enjoys working with Veterans. She holds degrees in social work from the University of Memphis and is trained to use EMDR for trauma resolution.
Sierra is skilled at helping clients find their passion in life, navigating through the hard times that are holding them back from being their best self, meeting goals along the way. She can see a wide range of clients, including those who want to resolve or manage anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, trauma and psychosis. Sierra worked in outpatient and inpatient settings and held leadership roles.
Taquila Smith, LPC, NCC, is EMDR trained. She’s a graduate of Delta State University where she received a masters degree in Mental Health Counseling. In 2021, Taquila also earned her Specialist degree in Psychometry. She’s living out her childhood passion of raising awareness for those who may be suffering from mental illnesses in silence.
Taquila has been providing mental health services since 2014. She has expertise in working with clients who struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, & other mental health disorders. Taquila enjoys reading, shopping, and spending time with family in her spare time. clients’ needs.
Medication Management
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Medication Management 〰️
Lisa Smith, LPN-E, works with Haley to assess and triage patients before they see her. She has been a nurse for more than 25 years and had the privilege of working in four different specialty fields: OBGYN, plastic surgery, dermatology, and mental health.
Her hobbies include reading, exercising, and most any outdoor activities. She especially enjoys traveling with her husband, including camping with their three dogs, Aksel, Izzy, and Zeke.
Administrative Staff
Administrative Staff
Josey Hanson is our billing assistant. She brings her emotional support dog, Farnsworth (“Farns”) with her to work. If you’d like to meet Farns, ask! He enjoys meeting people. Josey helps Brittany with billing, insurance certification, and patient accounting. She often also helps with problem-solving, fix-its, and whatever else we need. Her experience includes sales and both working in management at an ambulance service, and as an EMT.
Herdisene Polk is our afternoon receptionist