You feel pressure to have it figured out.
School, work, money, family, relationships, expectations, masculinity, and the world around you can create a lot of pressure without giving you much room to figure out what you actually think or feel.
A grounded place for guys ages 12+, men, couples, and families to talk honestly about what is happening — pressure, identity, relationships, anger, grief, responsibility, caregiving, change, and the parts of life that are harder to carry than they look.
My style is straightforward, human, and relational. We talk, make sense of patterns, look at what matters to you, and work toward a life and relationships that feel more connected and more like your own.
Asher Burk is a Georgia Associate Professional Counselor (APC), National Certified Counselor (NCC), and psychotherapist at Kula Wellness Group.
I work individually with males ages 12+ and adults, and I also work with couples, partners, adult children and parents navigating family dynamics, and people caring for elderly or disabled adults.
My work is humanistic, relational, trauma-informed, and conversation-forward. It is shaped by more than 16 years of experience in domestic-violence and family-rehabilitation settings. Somatic therapy is not the focus of my practice.
A lot of people — especially guys — arrive without a perfect explanation for what is wrong. Maybe you are frustrated, disconnected, tired of arguing, carrying too much responsibility, or simply know something in your life needs to change. That is enough to start.
School, work, money, family, relationships, expectations, masculinity, and the world around you can create a lot of pressure without giving you much room to figure out what you actually think or feel.
You may be functioning well while feeling distant from yourself, your partner, your family, your emotions, or the people you care about most.
Irritation, shutdown, defensiveness, or conflict may be carrying stress, hurt, fear, grief, shame, disappointment, or needs you have not had language for.
The topic changes, but the pattern does not. You want to understand what keeps happening between you and find a different way to respond to each other.
Adult children and parents can get caught in old roles, old expectations, boundaries that no longer fit, distance, resentment, or conflict that has built over years.
Supporting an elderly or disabled adult can bring love, duty, guilt, grief, exhaustion, resentment, and family tension — sometimes all at once.
Therapy with me is not about teaching you the “right” way to feel or turning every conversation into a clinical exercise. It is a place to slow things down enough to understand what is actually happening and decide what you want to do with it.
For teen boys and young men, that might mean identity, school, family, friendships, dating, anger, confidence, motivation, grief, or the pressure of trying to figure out what kind of man you want to become.
For adult men, it might mean relationships, work, fatherhood, responsibility, loss, caregiving, aging, life transitions, or realizing that the version of “holding it together” that got you this far is not working anymore.
Before and alongside his work as a counselor, Asher spent more than 16 years working in the realm of domestic violence and family rehabilitation.
That experience matters because relationship problems are rarely tidy. Families can hold love and anger at the same time. People can want connection and still repeat painful patterns. Caregiving can be meaningful and exhausting. Grief can change a person. Conflict can be complicated without reducing anyone to one moment.
Asher brings that experience into therapy as steadiness, context, and respect for complexity — not as a promise that every relationship should be preserved or that every family should reconcile.
Asher works with couples and partners as well as adult family relationships. The goal is not to pick a winner. It is to understand the cycle, make room for each person's experience, and decide what a healthier relationship can look like.
For distance, recurring conflict, communication breakdowns, resentment, trust concerns, changing roles, transitions, and couples who want to feel more connected instead of merely coexisting.
Asher may draw from Emotionally Focused Therapy, Gottman Method principles, IFS-informed concepts, and other relational approaches based on fit.
Learn About Relationship Therapy →For adult children, parents, siblings, or other family members navigating boundaries, changing roles, old patterns, estrangement or distance, unresolved conflict, communication, and the question of how to relate now.
Explore Family Therapy →Support for people carrying the emotional and relational weight of caregiving: fatigue, guilt, grief, role changes, family conflict, difficult decisions, resentment, responsibility, and maintaining a self outside of the caregiver role.
Ask About Working With Asher →Asher facilitates Kula's Dads Group and may also facilitate other therapy groups as Kula's programming changes. Group therapy can offer a different kind of space for connection, perspective, accountability, and realizing that some of what you are carrying is not yours alone.
Group participation is separate from individual, couples, or family therapy. Current topics, schedules, eligibility, and registration depend on the active group offering.
Explore Current Kula Groups →A Kula therapy group for fathers. Visit the Groups page for the current description, schedule, eligibility, and registration details.
View Current Groups →My foundation is humanistic and relational. The relationship we build matters because honest work is difficult when you feel judged, managed, or analyzed from across the room.
We can look at patterns, relationships, identity, grief, responsibility, history, choices, and the way the world around you has shaped what you learned about yourself and other people.
I am trauma-informed, but I do not assume every concern is trauma or that every session needs to revisit the past. We use the history that is useful for understanding the present and keep returning to how you want to live and relate now.
The goal is not to become “good at therapy.” It is to build enough trust and clarity that you can say what is real, understand what keeps happening, and make more intentional choices in your actual life.
There is room for complicated stories, difficult conversations, and emotions that do not fit neatly into one category.
We can name patterns clearly without using shame as a strategy for change.
You do not have to agree with me, perform for me, or become a particular version of yourself to make therapy worthwhile.
Insight matters, but so does what happens after the session — the conversation you have, the boundary you set, the choice you make, or the pattern you interrupt.
Not ahead of you, not behind you — alongside. I believe therapy works best when you feel genuinely seen, respected, and able to be honest without having to manage the therapist's reaction.
My work is shaped by more than 16 years in domestic-violence and family-rehabilitation settings. I have spent a lot of time around people and families in complicated seasons, and that has taught me to respect both the seriousness of what people carry and their capacity to make meaningful choices.
I work through a social-justice lens, paying attention to how identity, expectations, systems, relationships, and lived experience shape the world you are navigating. I am an LGBTQIA+ affirming ally, and my role is not to tell you who to be. It is to help you know yourself well enough to choose how you want to move through your life.
I also facilitate Kula's Dads Group and may facilitate other Kula therapy groups as programming changes. All of my work through Kula is psychotherapy; I do not offer coaching.
Asher's work at Kula is psychotherapy only. Depending on what you are looking for, that may include individual therapy, couples or family-focused work, or participation in a Kula therapy group he facilitates.
For teen boys, young men, and adult men navigating identity, pressure, relationships, grief, anger, responsibility, transitions, and connection with themselves.
Schedule a Discovery Call →For couples and partners who want to understand recurring patterns, communicate differently, navigate change, repair connection, or decide what they want their relationship to become.
Explore Relationship Therapy →For adult children and parents, changing family roles, boundaries, intergenerational conflict, and people supporting elderly or disabled adults.
Talk With Kula About Fit →Asher facilitates Kula's Dads Group and may facilitate other therapy groups as current programming changes.
Explore Current Groups →In-person therapy at Kula's Decatur and Peachtree Corners offices, with virtual therapy available to eligible clients across Georgia.
Asher's individual work includes teen boys, young men, and adult men, along with other adult clients when clinically appropriate.
Initial intake: $135. Contact Kula to confirm current couples or family session rates and available session lengths.
Kula does not bill insurance directly. Superbills may be available for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
You do not need to solve that before reaching out. A Discovery Call can help clarify what type of support may fit the concern you are bringing in.
Direct answers about men's therapy, age range, couples, adult family dynamics, caregivers, Asher's experience, approach, supervision, fees, and getting started.
A free 15-minute Discovery Call gives you room to ask questions and tell us a little about what is going on. If Asher sounds like the kind of person you could actually talk to, that is a good enough reason to start there.
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