Todd Valentine
The therapist for people at a turning point: those facing addiction, recovery, professional pressure, or relationship struggles. Todd brings warmth, positive regard, practical guidance, and a coaching spirit that helps people believe change is possible and then do the work to make it happen.
Who Todd Works With
Todd’s clients tend to arrive at a hinge. The drinking or the using or the pattern has stopped being a private arrangement and started costing things that don’t come back easily, and the next few months matter more than the last few years.
He works with addiction and recovery, from substances and from behaviors; with professionals whose work stress, work-life imbalance, and high-achieving anxiety have quietly become the whole weather system; and with men who were handed a three-word emotional vocabulary and are ready for a bigger one. What his clients have in common is the moment itself: things have to change, the change has to hold, and pretending otherwise has stopped being an option.
How a Session With Todd Works
Todd is hard to shock and easy to talk to. He is steady where the situation is not, more interested in what happens after the crisis than in the drama of it, and convinced by everything he has watched hold or break that the changes which hold are the ones other people help carry, which is exactly why he does so much of his work in groups. Sessions with him are practical: what has to hold this week, what nearly broke last week, and what structure makes the difference between a good intention and a different life.
Todd's Groups at The Community
Todd’s group work sits at the center of his practice; the full catalog and enrollment details live on the groups page.
The Lunch Bunch
A 30-minute group on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, enrolling now.
Tuesday Process Group
An open process group on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 6:30 PM, enrolling now.
Professionals Group
A private, supportive space for professionals who carry a great deal and are accustomed to functioning at a high level, meeting on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month, enrolling now.
Building Better Relationships
Intensive relationship work in a cohort that begins together and stays together.
Qualifications
Todd is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW – CSW004833, Georgia). His MSW is from the University of Georgia (2003) and his BA from Duke University (1990).
His specialties are addiction and recovery from substances and behaviors, professionals under pressure, and men’s issues; the tools he actually uses are CBT, DBT, trauma-informed approaches, and family systems. He sees adults and couples.
His experience: primary therapist in a young adult addiction program (2005 to 2006); residential manager in a men’s long-term residential substance use treatment program (2006 to 2021); and primary therapist for men in long-term treatment (2021 to 2026), providing individual, group, and family therapy throughout. As professional program manager, he oversaw case management for licensed professionals in treatment, worked directly with licensing boards, professional health programs, and employers, led the Atlanta Recovering Professionals Treatment Team, coordinated seven professionals groups a week, and advocated for clients returning to their professions.
Before This Work
Todd’s path here was not a straight line: an economics degree, detours through acting and teaching, and then addiction treatment settings since the early 2000s, from residential and detox programs to outpatient work.
Somewhere in there his own life hit its turning point too. He went through treatment, got into recovery, and has stayed in it, and the choice to spend his working life in therapeutic environments came directly out of that. He’ll use the phrase “wounded healer” for himself. The wound is not the qualification, but the healing taught him what holds and what doesn’t, and that knowledge is in the room with every client.
Outside the Office
Weekends find Todd at the lake with his wife, with grown sons who still come around, and with SEC football on in the fall. He has also sung in the same a cappella group for 22 years, which may be the most sustained aftercare plan on this page.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Todd works with adults and couples at a turning point: the moment life becomes unmanageable and the plan afterward has to hold. His practice centers addiction and recovery, professionals carrying work stress and high-achieving anxiety, and men learning an emotional language late.
Todd leads The Lunch Bunch, a virtual 30-minute group on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM. With Mark Anderson he co-facilitates the Tuesday Process Group, a virtual open process group on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 6:30 PM, and the Professionals Group, an in-person group for professionals on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month. With Grey Donnell he co-facilitates Building Better Relationships, a closed cohort coming in early 2027. Every group begins with a confidential screening conversation.
Todd’s rate is $150/hour. Your individual fee includes a group at the same frequency: weekly individual therapy includes a weekly group at no additional cost. A limited number of reduced-fee sessions are available. Ask at your consult. At your request, we can provide superbills you can submit for out-of-network reimbursement. Details are on the pricing page.
Write to him directly from this page, or start with the main line at 404-590-2993 and be matched. The free 15-minute consult opens everything, in person or by telehealth anywhere in Georgia, and group screening is confidential from the first word.
Ready when you are
Email Todd directly at todd@communityatlanta.com and start with a free 15-minute consult, or start with the main line and we’ll match you.