About us
Angela Culbreth
Founder, Spark Integrated Wellness
Licensed Professional Counselor
Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor
AASECT Certified Sex Therapist
AASECT Certified CE Provider
Angela Culbreth is a Licensed Professional Counselor and an AASECT-certified sex therapist in private practice in the Virginia-Highland neighborhood of Atlanta. In practice in metro Atlanta since graduating from Georgia State in 2001, she is an extensively trained trauma therapist and a sex and relationship expert who over the years has also developed specialties in grief and spirituality. She sees clients in person or virtually, individually or in relationships. She also provides supervision, practice consultation, and continuing education opportunities for other therapists.
As an extension of her longtime interests in relationships, sex, trauma, and spirituality, Angela has a more recently developed speciality in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). After finding great success in her own year-long course of KAP, learning firsthand how it can help really (yes…really) resolve problems that traditional therapies have failed, she decided that she wanted to be able to offer that option to people in her community. In 2022 she began the exciting and somewhat daunting journey of becoming an expert in all things KAP. A round of training with Polaris Insight Center in California started things off, followed by a fascinating experiential retreat in Canada to learn about using KAP with couples. Now Angela is an affiliate of Skylight Psychedelics in Colorado, which allows her patients to get high quality medical supervision of their ketamine treatment. She is also completing a yearlong KAP training program with Living Medicine Institute in Asheville. Next up in 2025 is a deep focus on providing KAP for other Atlanta therapists so they can get a personal sense of it and decide if they want to incorporate it into their practices.
Outside of work, Angela likes gardening, painting, cooking, and listening to all sorts of music. At any given moment, she’s got more great ideas than she can count and a list of unfinished projects that she doesn’t want to count. Like many of the people she admires, she has a certain knack at being reverent and irreverent in the same breath, sees the sacred in the ordinary, and knows for sure that any work we do to be deeply alive and deeply present with the people that we love is work that we’ll never regret doing.
What she does
Individual Therapy
Trauma-informed, culturally competent, evidence-based, brave and grounded, Angela has years of professional experience as a therapist as well as years of commitment to her own personal growth. Because of that, she is able to skillfully guide people as they explore their inner worlds, especially in the territory of trauma, sexuality, grief, and spirituality.
Relationship Therapy
Therapy with partners can be a life-changing experience when it helps people develop new insights into old patterns that have led to frustrating cycles of disconnection, loneliness, and anger. Instead of staying stuck, people can learn to use new skills that can make all the difference – things like how to listen deeply and speak in ways that are hearable, and how to set healthy boundaries and also effectively show compassion and empathy.
Sex Therapy
Most of us weren’t raised to communicate directly about sexuality and plenty of people end up in the habit of avoiding the topic however they can…and this includes therapists! Seeing a certified sex therapist is a good idea if you want to find solutions for sexual problems and experience deeper intimacy, pleasure, and connection in your most important relationships.
Ketamine Assisted Therapy
Particularly good for people who feel stuck in their lives or unable to change painful patterns despite trying, this innovative therapeutic approach uniquely blends the power of the prescription drug ketamine with attuned psychotherapy to create an approach that can deepen insight and understanding, creating new possibilities for healing and change.
Group Therapy
Building on a sense of belonging, group therapy is useful for people who want a space to practice connecting with others, or to increase self-awareness, or to learn about how to give and receive feedback. It’s a supported space to risk connection and it can dramatically enhance the positive benefits of individual or relationship therapy. Most people take some convincing, but it can be an amazing experience – especially if it seems like a bad idea at first!
Sexuality Education
Angela has a special passion for two things in the sexuality education arena: helping parents and helping other therapists. She helps parents by equipping them with good tools so they can embrace their roles as primary sexuality educators for their kids. She helps therapists by making sure they’ve got the skills and resources they need to respond well when their clients bring sexuality issues into therapy.
Services for Therapists
Supervision for emerging therapists
Nurturing and direct with a developmental, context-aware approach, she attempts to channel the best parts of her favorite teachers over the years. Since entering the second half of her career, mentoring other therapists has become a rewarding and valued part of her practice.
Continuing
Education
Angela has been an approved AASECT provider of continuing education. She appreciates how technology helps with access to quality training but *loves* an old-school, in-person, small group, relational approach to continuing education. With snacks. She provides snacks.
Therapy and
Coaching
Angela is a therapist’s therapist who understands the unique needs of therapists in therapy. Whether through practice development coaching or individual or couples therapy, she considers it an honor to work with her colleagues in support of their thriving practices and fulfilling personal lives.
"I love being a therapist. I’ve been doing this a long time and I’m not tired of it yet. Somehow I landed in what has to be the best gig in the world for me. There’s brain, there’s heart, creativity, science, answers, mysteries…so many paradoxes in this work and that really suits me.
No two days are the same. I love my clients and the beautifully complex dilemmas they bring for us to work through together.
I don’t love their pain, of course. I love the hope they have that they can find a solution. Or understanding. Or acceptance. Or something that feels better than wherever they’re starting.
And I love the hope they have that maybe I can help.
Reach out if you’d like. I’d be happy to set up a call or a Zoom so you can ask your questions and get a sense of what it might be like to work with me."
Some problems can’t wait.
And some have waited long enough.
If you think therapy might be a good idea, reach out and let’s talk about it.