Ways of Awareness- Yoga, Meditation, and Counseling

Kim Cresse is the Founder and Director of Ways of Awareness, Inc. She started her company to help make a contribution towards creating more peace and tolerance in the world by finding Ways for us to become more gentle and tolerant with ourselves.

Kim has realized that one of the Ways to begin doing this is by developing the capacity for 'non-judgmental awareness' through a practice called Mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of seeing in the present moment that allows us to hold our selves and our experience with more clarity, kindness and peace.

Thus, we begin to be with ourselves “the change we wish to see in the world…~Ghandi””

Kim has a Masters of Arts degree in Professional Counseling and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the state of Georgia . She provides mindfulness-based individual and group therapy for clients clients working with issues related to pain and stress management, anxiety and depression, as well as difficulties in focusing and paying attention. Kim especially likes working with teenagers, young adults, and their families. She sees clients in Alpharetta and at The Anxiety & Stress Management Institute in Marietta [www.StressMgt.net].

Kim has professional training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a renowned stress reduction program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is also trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).

Kim is a member of the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia (LPCA), the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), and the Society for the Integration of Spirituality and Psychotherapy (SISP).

On a personal level, Kim has practiced and taught meditation and yoga for the past eight years. She lives in Alpharetta and is the mother of two daughters, ages 19 and 22 years.