Professional Experience

Dr. Tolleson has experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and couples in a variety of settings, including community mental health, schools, homeless shelters, hospitals, university career counseling centers, recovery programs, and private practices doing individual therapy, group work, and assessments. Dr. Tolleson is a Board-Certified Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in trauma-informed and creative approaches to counseling children, teens, and adults. She is the founder of Tolleson Counseling Center located in Marietta, Georgia where her work as a therapist often focuses on helping clients with anxiety, stress management, past trauma, and issues related to neurodiversity. Dr. Tolleson has also developed a passion for counseling high-achieving girls and women looking to learn different ways to come back from the brink of burnout and challenge perfectionistic tendencies.

Dr. Tolleson holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Practice, M.S. in Mental Health Counseling, and B.S. in Psychology from Georgia State University. As a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor, Dr. Tolleson has experience supervising both mental health and school counselors-in-training seeking to gain competency in counseling kids and teens. She holds the Registered Play Therapist credential, has extensive training in Play Therapy, child and adolescent counseling, and trauma-informed care, and regularly guest lectures in counseling graduate programs across the country on these topics. Dr. Tolleson hosts workshops on burnout and stress management for cross-discipline associations and she serves as a mental health consultant for various corporate companies and non-profit organizations. Her published work on creativity and Play Therapy has been presented at local, national, and international conferences and she was recognized as an Emerging Leader in the counseling profession by the Association for Creativity in Counseling in 2017.