About Us

A Place Where People Are Helped to
Help Themselves.

Welcome To

New Life Mental Health

New life mental health is a comprehensive counseling agency offering mental health counseling, substance use counseling, and targeted case management for adults and risk youth. As a community-based program founded by experienced clinicians, our common-sense approach is client-centered, client-driven, and clinician-managed to help our patients overcome obstacles and achieve their goals.

Our Mission

In a world where people with Mental Health are treated unfairly, we at New Life Mental Health are dedicated to breaking our current stigma by increasing awareness and acceptance of mental illness by providing therapy and medication. At New Life Mental Health, recovery and a healthy mind are just the beginning of your journey to strong mental health.

Sophia John, MA, LMFT, DCHt.,

Executive Director and Therapist

I am Sophia John, MA, LMFT, DCHt., The executive director and therapist behind ‘New Life Mental Health’. I am privileged to be a Licensed Master Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Internationally Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor. Starting my own private practice has been the most life-fulfilling endeavor I have ever pursued. To know that my job allows me the privilege of touching lives and healing people in the most meaningful and effective ways possible, means that I will never go to work another day of my life. I truly enjoy helping others and seeing individuals, couples and families grow through therapy and transform into people they never imagined possible.

My passion for helping others started at a very young age but was truly recognized through my college years and while building my career over the past 25 years. In 1998 and 2007, respectively, I graduated from the University of Georgia with my Bachelors and Masters degrees in Social Work. Along with achieving my degrees from UGA, I have further completed numerous specialized training courses, worked with non-profit agencies to address the stigmatization of non-traditional substance abuse treatment programs, organized multiple charitable events within surrounding communities and assisted with research projects focusing on the healing process of sexual abuse victims and complex trauma victims.

My Career Development

Intimacy problems

My social work career began in June 1998 working with The Georgia Department of Family and Children’s Services, until January 2015. While I was fortunate to be working in such a diverse environment with some amazing colleagues and peers, I remained frustrated that regardless of how “high” I went up (position-wise) the job always entailed navigating bureaucratic red tape and non-negotiable policies. It seemed that very few interventions I had with clients were positive in their lives or the lives of others. I was painfully aware that most people do not fare well when managed from a “one-size fits all” approach to healing and rebuilding themselves and their lives. I often disagreed with the policies families felt trapped under – yet I was charged to enforce and uphold. For me, the end to this means was to take my social work career in a very different direction – a clinical direction.

Beginning in February 2015 I took a leap of faith and decided to pursue a clinical approach to my social work career. It was at this point that I left DFCS and began working in a substance abuse (MAT) recovery clinic, for the following 3 years. This was a clinical setting which allowed me to go forward from my having my LMSW to earning my LCSW and CAADC credentials. Through this clinical work experience, I grew even more dedicated to my passion to help those with issues ranging from isolated mental health problems to more complex co-occurring disorders which entailed substance abuse and addictions.