Janelle Dawsey, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · Metro Atlanta
Janelle Dawsey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, relationship strategist, speaker, and author dedicated to helping people build healthier relationships — with others and with themselves.
Helping people build healthier relationships
Janelle Dawsey is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, relationship strategist, speaker, and author dedicated to helping people build healthier relationships — with others and with themselves. With more than a decade of experience in the mental health field, she has worked extensively with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, grief, betrayal, life transitions, relationship conflict, and emotional healing.
Her work is rooted in the belief that relationships shape every aspect of our lives — from how we love and communicate to how we lead, parent, and show up in the world around us.
Symmetricly: therapy for every stage of love and connection
As the founder of Symmetricly, a modern relationship-focused therapy practice based in the metro Atlanta area, Janelle has built a brand centered on helping people navigate every stage of love and connection. From dating and premarital counseling to marriage, infidelity recovery, co-parenting, separation, divorce, and grief after heartbreak, her approach goes far beyond traditional therapy models.
Rather than only focusing on symptoms, she examines how emotional wounds, communication patterns, trauma, stress, and identity impact relational dynamics and overall quality of life.
Direct, compassionate, and real
Known for her direct yet compassionate style, Janelle combines clinical expertise with real-world insight to create conversations that feel both empowering and relatable. Her work challenges people to move beyond survival mode and develop the self-awareness, emotional intelligence, boundaries, and resilience needed to cultivate healthy relationships.
She believes that not every relationship is meant to be saved — but every person deserves the opportunity to heal, grow, and experience love in a healthier way.
Speaking, writing, and making mental health accessible
In addition to therapy, Janelle is an accomplished speaker and workshop facilitator who speaks on topics related to relationships, emotional wellness, communication, leadership, heartbreak, healing, and relational intelligence. Her ability to blend cultural commentary, psychology, storytelling, and practical insight has helped her connect with audiences both online and in person.
She is passionate about making conversations about mental health and relationships more accessible, honest, and actionable — particularly within underserved communities.
The mission across all of it
Whether she is working with clients in therapy, speaking on stage, creating educational content, or developing new relationship-centered initiatives, her mission remains the same: to help people build stronger relationships, healthier families, and ultimately a more compassionate and emotionally connected society.
Through her work, Janelle continues to position herself as a leading voice in modern relationship wellness — bridging the gap between therapy, education, personal development, and real-life relational experiences.
Not every relationship is meant to be saved — but every person deserves the opportunity to heal, grow, and experience love in a healthier way.— Janelle Dawsey, LMFT
Books by Janelle Dawsey.
Works that reflect her commitment to helping individuals rediscover themselves after pain, transition, and loss.
A book about the deeper transformation motherhood asks of women — emotionally, relationally, and personally — beyond what the surface conversation usually allows.
A guide for those navigating the aftermath of relationship loss — including the slow, real work of rebuilding yourself and your capacity for healthy connection.
Speaking, workshops, and cultural commentary.
Janelle is available for speaking engagements, workshops, panel discussions, podcasts, and media interviews. Her talks blend cultural commentary, psychology, storytelling, and practical insight — with a particular focus on making mental health and relationship conversations more accessible, honest, and actionable.
What Janelle works with.
Across more than a decade in practice, the work spans every stage of love and connection.
Dating & premarital
Building the relationship intelligence and self-awareness to enter a partnership ready, not just hopeful.
Marriage & couples
Couples in chronic conflict, rebuilding after rupture, or recalibrating during major life transitions.
Infidelity recovery
The slow, honest work of rebuilding trust after betrayal — when both partners are committed to it.
Co-parenting & separation
Helping families function well across change, including separation and divorce, with the children at the center.
Heartbreak & grief
The grief that comes after love — whether through breakup, divorce, or the death of a relationship that mattered.
Anxiety & depression
The individual mental health work that often shows up alongside relational pain — and often gets healed alongside it.
Life transitions
The moments where everything shifts — new parenthood, career change, midlife, loss — and the relationships have to shift with them.
Boundaries & identity
The work of knowing what’s yours to carry, what isn’t, and who you actually are underneath the roles you’ve played.
Emotional healing
The deeper integration work that happens once the acute crisis passes — rebuilding self-trust and capacity for connection.
Press, podcasts, and speaking inquiries.
For speaking engagements, podcast interviews, media commentary, workshops, or collaborations, please reach out directly. Janelle is particularly available for conversations on relationships, mental health access, heartbreak and healing, and cultural commentary on modern love.
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