Alabama Office
Doing it Differently
Sharp Wellness aims to provide a holistic approach to you and your growth. Our Alabama office provides both in person and virtual therapy focused on helping clients build on their strengths and to attain the personal growth they are seeking. We work with teens, emerging adults, adults, couples, and families from diverse backgrounds who experience a wide range issues including anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
Meet the Alabama Team
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Brittany Harp, MA LPC-S
Owner and Senior Therapist
Accepting New Clients, Teens and Up
Specialties: Anxiety/ Stress Management, Shame, Life Transitions, Millenials
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Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C
Senior Therapist
Accepting New Clients Ages 16+
Specialties: ADHD/ADHD Testing, Depression, Couples, Fertility Concerns, Parenting, Postpartum
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Larkin Lowry, MS LMFT
Senior Therapist
Accepting Adult Clients
Specialties: Childhood Trauma, Play Therapy, Children, Adolescents, Teens, Young Adults, Building Self-Efficacy, Enhancing Self-Compassion
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Stephene Johnson, MFT-A
Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist
Supervised by Larkin Lowry, LMFT-S
Accepting New Clients Ages 6+
Specialties: Play therapy, Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Life Transitions, Relationship Challenges, Family Dynamics, Identity & Self-Exploration, Self-Compassion, Stress
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Rachel Hiebel
Office Manager
Therapy Services at Sharp Wellness in birmingham, alabama
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Sharp Wellness offers family therapy in Birmingham, Alabama for families who want support improving communication, working through conflict, navigating life transitions, and strengthening relationships at home. Stephene Johnson, LMFT-A, Larkin Lowry, MS, LMFT and Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C provide family therapy for a range of concerns, including parenting challenges, family dynamics, emotional disconnection, stress, identity concerns, and major changes within the family. Our therapists work collaboratively with families to better understand patterns, build healthier communication, and create stronger, more supportive relationships.
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Sharp Wellness offers couples therapy in Birmingham, Alabama with Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C for partners who want support improving communication, navigating conflict, rebuilding trust, and strengthening their emotional connection. Couples therapy can help partners better understand recurring relationship patterns, express needs more clearly, work through major life transitions, and develop healthier ways of responding to one another.
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Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C also offers couples intensives for partners who want a more focused, extended approach to relationship therapy. Couples intensives provide more time than a traditional weekly session, allowing couples to explore deeper concerns, work through recurring patterns, address communication or trust difficulties, and make meaningful progress in a concentrated format.
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Sharp Wellness offers ADHD therapy and adult ADHD testing in Birmingham, Alabama with Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C. Rachel works with adults who are experiencing concerns related to attention, organization, time management, executive functioning, emotional regulation, impulsivity, and other possible ADHD symptoms. ADHD therapy can help clients better understand how ADHD affects daily life and develop practical strategies, while ADHD testing provides a more in-depth evaluation to better understand symptoms, functioning, and whether an ADHD diagnosis may be appropriate.
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Sharp Wellness offers parent therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs, family dynamics, and goals. Therapy can help parents navigate stress, communication challenges, changing family roles, parenting concerns, co-parenting, life transitions, and the emotional demands that can come with raising children. Our therapists help parents build healthier coping skills, strengthen communication, better understand family patterns, and feel more confident and supported in their parenting.
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Sharp Wellness offers child play therapy in Birmingham, Alabama with Stephene Johnson, MFT-A and Larkin Lowry MS, LMFT. Stephene Johnson currently has availability, while Larkin Lowry currently has a waitlist. Play therapy gives children a developmentally appropriate way to express emotions, process experiences, build coping skills, improve communication, and work through concerns such as anxiety, self-esteem, family changes, stress, behavioral challenges, and life transitions.
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Sharp Wellness offers therapy for teens and adolescents in Birmingham, Alabama, with therapist availability depending on the client’s age and individual needs. Our therapists support teens with concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, school stress, family conflict, self-esteem, identity, relationships, emotional regulation, trauma, and major life transitions. Teen therapy provides a supportive space to build coping skills, improve communication, better understand emotions, and navigate the challenges that can come with adolescence.
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Sharp Wellness offers young adult therapy in Birmingham, Alabama with all of our therapists providing support for clients navigating the transition into adulthood. Therapy can help with concerns such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationships, identity, self-esteem, career or school stress, family changes, major life transitions, and feeling overwhelmed by new responsibilities. Young adult therapy provides a supportive space to better understand yourself, build coping skills, strengthen confidence, and navigate this stage of life with greater clarity.
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Sharp Wellness offers anxiety therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s age, needs, and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as persistent worry, overthinking, panic, stress, overwhelm, difficulty concentrating, physical symptoms of anxiety, and major life transitions. Our therapists help clients better understand anxiety, develop healthy coping strategies, improve emotional regulation, and feel more confident managing everyday stressors.
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Sharp Wellness offers depression therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s age, needs, and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as persistent sadness, low motivation, loss of interest, fatigue, hopelessness, difficulty concentrating, changes in sleep, and feeling disconnected from everyday life. Our therapists help clients better understand their symptoms, build healthy coping skills, improve emotional well-being, and work toward feeling more engaged, supported, and connected in daily life.
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Grief and loss therapy offers a supportive space to process the emotional impact of losing a loved one, relationship, role, or major part of life. Therapy can help clients work through difficult emotions, adjust to change, develop healthy coping strategies, and move forward while honoring what they have lost.
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Sharp Wellness offers LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing inclusive, supportive care. Therapy can provide a space to explore identity, relationships, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, family dynamics, life transitions, stress, and other concerns without judgment. Our therapists work to create an affirming environment where clients can feel supported, understood, and comfortable being themselves.
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Sharp Wellness offers trauma therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s age, experiences, and goals. Trauma therapy can help clients process difficult or overwhelming experiences, understand how trauma may be affecting thoughts, emotions, relationships, and daily life, and develop healthier coping strategies. Our therapists provide a supportive space to help clients build emotional regulation skills, increase a sense of safety, and work toward healing at their own pace.
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Sharp Wellness offers therapy for self-esteem in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs, experiences, and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as self-doubt, negative self-talk, comparison, insecurity, difficulty recognizing personal strengths, and feeling disconnected from a sense of confidence or self-worth. Our therapists help clients better understand the patterns affecting how they see themselves, build self-compassion, develop healthier thought patterns, and work toward a stronger and more balanced sense of self.
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Sharp Wellness offers therapy for life transitions in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs, experiences, and goals. Therapy can help with changes such as moving, starting or ending a relationship, career changes, becoming a parent, adjusting to school or college, changes in family dynamics, and other major shifts in life. Our therapists help clients process change, manage uncertainty, build healthy coping skills, and feel more grounded and confident as they adjust to a new season of life.
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Sharp Wellness offers therapy for people pleasing and perfectionism in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs, experiences, and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as difficulty setting boundaries, fear of disappointing others, overcommitting, self-criticism, unrealistic expectations, and feeling pressure to always perform or get things right. Our therapists help clients recognize these patterns, build healthier boundaries, develop self-compassion, manage expectations, and create a more balanced relationship with themselves and others.
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Sharp Wellness offers stress management therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs, lifestyle, and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as feeling overwhelmed, burnout, work or school stress, relationship stress, difficulty relaxing, irritability, racing thoughts, and trouble balancing everyday responsibilities. Our therapists help clients identify sources of stress, build practical coping skills, improve emotional regulation, create healthier boundaries, and feel more equipped to manage daily challenges.
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Sharp Wellness offers therapy for men’s issues in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs, experiences, and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, work-life balance, identity, self-esteem, anger, grief, and major life transitions. Our therapists help clients better understand their emotions, build healthy coping skills, improve communication, and feel more confident and supported in navigating everyday life.
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Sharp Wellness offers therapy for women’s issues in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs and goals. Therapy can help with concerns such as anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationships, identity, stress, boundaries, caregiving demands, career changes, life transitions, pregnancy and postpartum experiences, and balancing personal and family responsibilities. Our therapists provide a supportive space for women to better understand their experiences, strengthen coping skills, and work toward greater emotional well-being.
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Sharp Wellness offers maternal mental health therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs and goals. Therapy can help with concerns related to pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, motherhood, anxiety, depression, identity changes, parenting stress, relationship changes, and the emotional demands of caring for a child. Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C specializes in maternal mental health and provides additional support for clients navigating pregnancy, postpartum experiences, fertility, and the transition into parenthood.
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Sharp Wellness offers perinatal mental health therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support based on each client’s needs and goals. Therapy can help with concerns related to pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, fertility, pregnancy loss, birth experiences, parenting transitions, anxiety, depression, identity changes, and the emotional demands of growing a family. Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C specializes in perinatal mental health and provides additional support for clients navigating pregnancy, postpartum, fertility, and other reproductive and parenting-related concerns.
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Sharp Wellness offers postpartum therapy in Birmingham, Alabama, with all of our therapists providing support for the emotional and practical challenges that can come after having a baby. Therapy can help with postpartum anxiety or depression, overwhelm, identity changes, relationship stress, sleep-related difficulties, adjustment to parenthood, and feelings of isolation or uncertainty. Rachel McCullough, PhD, LPC, PMH-C specializes in perinatal and postpartum mental health and provides additional support for clients as they adjust to life after pregnancy and navigate the transition into parenthood.
Frequently Asked Questions about our alabama office
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Sharp Wellness offers a wide range of therapy services for adults in Birmingham, Alabama. Depending on your needs, adults may receive support for anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, life transitions, stress management, self-esteem, people pleasing and perfectionism, women’s issues, men’s issues, LGBTQIA+ concerns, ADHD, neurodivergence, OCD, DID, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and maternal or perinatal mental health.
Adult services may also include individual therapy, couples therapy, couples intensives, family therapy, EMDR, ADHD testing for adults 18+, postpartum therapy, parent therapy, and virtual therapy. Our Birmingham therapists work with each client to create a personalized treatment plan based on their goals, concerns, and preferred approach to care.
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Individuals- $180/50 minutes– Sliding Scale: $145
Individuals- $160.00/ 50 minutes and $300/100 minutes.
Family Therapy- Initial and Subsequent sessions $270.00/ 90 minutes.
Rachel McCullough
Individuals- $170.00/ 50 minutes and $330/ 100 minutes.Gottman-Couples Therapy- Initial sessions for Gottman’s Couple Therapy are 90 minutes, include the cost of an assessment, and are $340.00. Subsequent couples’ sessions are $300.00/90 minutes.
Family Therapy- Initial and Subsequent sessions $300.00/ 90 minutes.
Rachel also provides Couple’s Intensives.
Individuals: $115/50 minutes
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You can get started by scheduling an appointment online, or contacting our office directly at (205) 383-6650, or email us at contact@sharpwellnessandcounseling.com.
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Stephene Johnson and Rachel McCullough currently have evening appointment availability for new clients.
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We accept commercial Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans, including Anthem BCBS. We do not accept Medicare or Medicare Advantage plans.
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Yes. We offer both in-person sessions at our Birmingham office and virtual appointments for clients who prefer flexibility or convenience.
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We are located in Vestavia Hills, Alabama right off of I-459, directly across from Lifetime and Publix. Our address is 3109 Blue Lake Drive, Suite 205, Birmingham, AL 35243.
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Yes. Sharp Wellness offers counseling for children and families in Birmingham, Alabama. Our Birmingham therapists provide child and play therapy, teen therapy, parent therapy, and family therapy, with services based on each client’s age, needs, and therapist availability.
Visit Us
3109 Blue Lake Drive, Ste 205
Birmingham, AL 35243
Hours
Monday-Friday
10am–7pm
Phone
(205) 383-6650