Meet Cristine Seidell MA, LPC, CCH

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Cristine specializes in the following:

  • Treatment Resistant Clients
  • Ketamine Assisted Therapy
  • Inner Child work
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Group Therapy
  • Couples Therapy
  • Family Therapy
  • Family Reunification Therapy
  • Hypnotherapy
  • Neurolinguistic Programming
  • Assessments and Appraisals
  • Parenting Support
  • Parent-Child Relationships
  • Business Coaching

Cristine entered into counseling and therapy after a 12 year career in education. Beginning in private practice, she proceeded to work closely with children and families facing behavioral and mood concerns. Utilizing her experience as an educator and quick rapport building with children, Cristine became well respected as an individual and group therapist in the East Cobb and North Fulton areas and as a co-founder of Rise Therapy Center.

Ever the lover of learning, Cristine continued to develop her skills and acquire additional certifications serving children, adolescents, and adults. Using her expertise of childhood and the developmental emotional stages, Cristine quickly became a well respected specialist in treatment resistant clients, couples and families. Using a basis of Internal Family Systems, Inner Child Work and Nervous System Regulation she specializes in mood, behavioral, and emotional incongruences based upon false beliefs, nervous system dysregulation and subconscious programming. Cristine treats clients in group, family or individual session settings.

Through her work with treatment resistant clients, Cristine became focused on empirically based modalities and became a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist (CCH) and Guided Meditation Master as well as a trained Ketamine Assisted Therapist through Alchemy Therapy Trainings in Oakland, California. Cristine partners with local Psychiatrists to offer the most effective and researched based altered state therapies, which are quickly gaining a reputation in transforming the mental health world.

In addition to her formal professional career, Cristine authored the 3-6-9 Family Unification Plan, which works to apply specific goals to families of high conflict or families in current litigation. She is a respected expert witness in Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas, Fulton, Forsyth and Dekalb counties as well as Colorado and California.

Cristine provides Continuing Education and Public Speaking Engagements on topics such as High Conflict Systems, Neutral Parenting, Effective Communication, Mindfulness, Reunification Therapy and Childhood Therapy. She is also the author of 30 CBT Creative Interventions for Children and Teens.

Cristine loves spending time at the beach with her family and adorable Aussie-Shepherd, Loki.

A Few Words From Cristine

Very few of us get to travel this beautiful journey unscathed. Through our experiences, relationships and conditioning we may have developed some belief systems that truly do not serve us and unfortunately, some beliefs that actually harm us. Therapy is a sacred place to be vulnerable, honor the radiance that is you and learn new ways of BEING. As an intuitive therapist, I am lit up seeing my clients become the Sages of their own lives and heal the wounds that have manifested in the forms of relationship, somatic or behavioral issues.

“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

~Carl Jung

FEES:

INDIVIDUAL FEE: $185 / 50-MINUTE SESSION

Rise Therapy Center is an Out of Network provider, with many insurance companies which means that we do not bill insurance companies directly. Your counseling services may be eligible for reimbursement through out-of-network benefits, medical spending (FSA's) or health care savings accounts (HSA's). Health insurance plans and benefits vary. If you are interested in using your health insurance, please call your insurance provider to inquire about reimbursement for out-of-network counseling services.

Our Client Coordinator, Lindsay, will provide you with a document on request called a "superbill" which is like an invoice but contains the service codes, dates of treatment, and monies paid during therapy. You would submit this to your plan directly and your plan would reimburse you directly as well.

HOW ARE MY RECORDS STORED?

We utilize a HIPAA compliant, encrypted, electronic medical record called Therapy Appointments that holds all of my client's mental health records safely in it. You will get a link to a client portal where you fill in demographic information and can access documents like invoices and superbills on your own.

DO YOU HAVE A CANCELATION POLICY?

I have a 24- business hour cancelation policy You will be responsible for an entire session fee of 185 if the change is made in less than 24 business hours' notice. Exceptions may be made for emergencies such as sudden illness or accident, at my discretion. It should be noted that insurance does not reimburse for canceled sessions and HSA and FSA cards can't be used in these cases.