MCS welcomes new residents Kim Morrow Taff, MS, NCC and Tim McDaniel, LMSW. Kim holds a Master of Science degree in Professional Counseling from Georgia State University. She is currently working toward her Ed.S. degree. She has clinical experience in individual, couples, family, and group therapy. Kim began her work as a therapist at a community mental health center, where she worked with individuals, couples, and families in many areas of concern, including depression, anxiety, addiction, grief, anger management, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual abuse, trauma history, and relationship issues. She facilitates her clients' growth and change by using a strengths-based approach, empowering them to find a path toward wholeness. Kim is a certified Grief Recovery specialist and enjoys offering her clients art therapy.

Tim received his Master of Social Work degree from the University of Georgia. His clinical experience includes providing individual and group therapy around the areas of spirituality, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, GLBTQ issues, and societal and cultural stressors. Educated as a social worker, Tim believes there is a undeniable correlation between a person and their environment, and utilizes foundational theories of human behavior and social systems to assist clients through their change process to healthier living, relationships, and surroundings.

MCS recently enlisted the help of videographer and new board member Linda Bair to produce a short video to play on the homepage of our website. The video serves as an introduction to the center to those who are seeking help for mental and emotional concerns.

The video features MCS Executive Director Kathie Thodeson, MS, LPC, Clinical Director Kathy Steele, MN, CS, and Resident Therapist Tanya DiGiovanni-Goldbach, MA, LAPC. MCS board member Nicole Adams graciously gave of her time to be interviewed as well, and plays a prominent role in the video.

Our hope is that prospective clients will have a better sense of who we are as an organization and how we are able to help adults in the Atlanta area who are seeking high quality, affordable mental health services. MCS is most grateful to Linda Bair for donating her time and expertise to help us connect with even more people who are struggling with mental health concerns.

MCS Clinical Director Kathy Steele, MN, CS has been named President-Elect of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). ISSTD is an international, non-profit, professional association organized "to develop and promote comprehensive, clinically effective and empirically based resources and responses to trauma and dissociation and to address its relevance to other theoretical constructs."

Kathy is internationally known for her work in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and has served on the board of both ISTSS and ISSTD. Her book, The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation of the Personality and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (co-authors Onno van der Hart and Ellert Nijenjuis) has been published in 3 languages, and is currently in translation in 4 others.

Kathy will assume the role of President of ISSTD at the organization's 25th anniversary conference in Chicago in November. As President-Elect, Kathy also serves as Conference Chairperson.