Different parts of you want different things.
One part wants closeness while another pulls away. One wants rest while another insists you keep going. The conflict can feel exhausting.
Depth-oriented therapy for teens 15+ and adults navigating complex trauma, identity, internal conflict, disordered eating patterns, grief, and experiences that do not fit neatly into one category.
I offer in-person therapy in Decatur and virtual therapy across Georgia. My work may integrate IFS-informed concepts, EMDR, psychodynamic and nervous-system aware approaches, and therapeutic yoga when appropriate.
Mikayla Ruggieri is a Georgia Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and the Clinical Director at Kula Wellness Group.
I work with teens ages 15+ and adults, offering in-person therapy in Decatur and virtual therapy across Georgia. My clinical focus includes complex trauma, identity development, internal conflict, disordered eating patterns, grief, sexuality and gender exploration, and experiences that may feel layered or hard to capture with one label.
My approach may integrate IFS-informed concepts, EMDR, psychodynamic work, Polyvagal Theory, nervous-system awareness, somatic practices, and therapeutic yoga based on clinical fit and your treatment goals.
Sometimes insight is only one part of the work. You may know where a pattern came from and still feel pulled into it, divided inside, or disconnected from the version of yourself you want to become.
One part wants closeness while another pulls away. One wants rest while another insists you keep going. The conflict can feel exhausting.
Old experiences may affect relationships, self-worth, trust, safety, food, identity, or how your system responds even when you understand why.
Disordered eating patterns may intersect with coping, control, trauma, identity, self-protection, or emotional regulation.
Sexuality, gender, relationships, family roles, values, or another identity shift may be asking for a space where complexity is welcomed.
Loss can be complicated by trauma, identity changes, relationships, or experiences that never received enough space to be acknowledged.
You may have gained valuable insight or coping skills and still feel there is another layer you want to understand, process, or integrate.
IFS-informed work gives us a language for understanding the different parts of your inner world without turning them into problems to eliminate. A critical part, an avoidant part, a frightened part, or the part that seems to sabotage progress may each have a history and a purpose worth understanding.
EMDR may be integrated when it fits your goals, readiness, and treatment plan. Rather than assuming a particular modality is the answer, we can use different approaches thoughtfully and collaboratively.
I also bring attention to relationships, identity, social context, the nervous system, and the body. My approach is structured, but I do not believe depth work needs to feel cold or relentlessly heavy.
These categories can overlap. Therapy does not require you to separate your trauma, identity, grief, relationships, or coping into neat boxes before you arrive.
Layered or repeated experiences, relational trauma, protective patterns, triggers, internal conflict, and the ways earlier experiences continue to shape the present.
Sexuality, gender, values, relationships, family roles, life transitions, and the ongoing process of understanding who you are.
Exploring how food, body image, control, coping, trauma, and identity may interact, while recognizing that some needs call for additional specialty medical or nutritional support.
Feeling divided, self-critical, stuck between competing needs, or as though one part of you keeps undoing what another part wants.
Grief connected to death, relationships, identity, transitions, trauma, or experiences that were never fully acknowledged.
Therapy for ages 15+ navigating identity, trauma, relationships, self-worth, disordered eating patterns, grief, and the transition toward adulthood.
Mikayla's practice is LGBTQIA+ affirming and welcomes exploration of sexuality, gender, identity, relationships, culture, and the systems that shape lived experience.
You do not need to reduce yourself to a diagnosis or present one clean, uncomplicated story. There is room here for contradiction, uncertainty, identity, humor, grief, and all the parts that make you you.
We can hold multiple layers at once rather than forcing your experience into one explanation.
Therapy can make room for seriousness and humor. Being human together can help difficult conversations feel more possible.
You are an active participant in the work. Your perspective, consent, goals, and sense of what is or is not helping matter.
Your identity is not something to work around. It is part of the context through which we understand your experience.
I am drawn to work that makes room for complexity. The parts of your story that feel contradictory, the identities that are still developing, the patterns that once helped you survive, and the experiences you have not yet had enough space to make sense of all belong in the room.
My clinical style is structured without being rigid. I bring curiosity, compassion, and humor alongside approaches such as IFS-informed work, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, nervous-system awareness, somatic practices, and yoga-informed practices within psychotherapy.
As Kula's Clinical Director, I also provide clinical leadership and oversight for the practice and help support a culture of thoughtful, ethical, collaborative care across our clinical team.
Therapy and sound bath workshops have different purposes and boundaries. Kula's sound bath workshops are community wellness experiences and are not psychotherapy. Yoga-informed practices may be incorporated into Mikayla's therapy sessions when clinically appropriate and desired by the client, but therapeutic yoga is not offered as a separate service.
Depth-oriented therapy for teens 15+ and adults in Decatur and virtually across Georgia.
Schedule a Discovery Call →Mikayla facilitates Kula's sound bath experiences — guided wellness workshops that offer space for rest, mindful attention, and connection outside of psychotherapy.
Explore Workshops →In-person therapy in Decatur, Georgia, with virtual therapy available to eligible clients across Georgia.
Mikayla currently works with teens ages 15 and older and with adults.
Initial intake: $175. Other session lengths may be discussed after intake when clinically appropriate.
Kula does not bill insurance directly. Superbills may be available for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Learn more about superbills, reduced-fee options, scholarships, and other ways Kula works to make care more accessible.
Direct answers about clinical fit, IFS-informed work, EMDR, identity, disordered eating patterns, workshops, fees, and getting started.
A free 15-minute Discovery Call gives you space to ask questions, tell us a little about what you are looking for, and explore whether working with Mikayla might make sense.
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