Grief & Trauma Therapist | EMDR-Certified Clinician | Chronic Illness & End-of-Life Counseling
Providing in-person counseling in Brentwood, TN

“Grief isn’t something you ‘get over’—it’s something you move through. My role is to walk beside you in that journey, offering clinical expertise and compassionate care as you rediscover hope, strength, and meaning.”

Carla Archuletta is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider with Approved Supervisor status in Tennessee. She earned her Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Trevecca Nazarene University, and brings over a decade of experience supporting individuals through life’s most challenging seasons. Carla specializes in therapy for grief and loss, trauma, chronic illness, and end-of-life transitions, offering personalized, in-person counseling at Brentwood Counseling Associates.

She is a Fellow in Thanatology (FT), a National Certified Counselor (NCC), and holds advanced certifications in:

• EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Therapy

• Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)

• Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP)

• Certified Grief Recovery Specialist (CGRS)

• Board Certified Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH)

• EMDRIA Consultant-in-Training

• End-of-Life Professional Certificate from the University of Vermont

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Carla is also co-author of Health-Medical Challenges and Grief: Group EMDR Therapy for Patients and Caregivers, published in EMDR Group Therapy: Emerging Principles and Protocols to Treat Trauma and Beyond (Springer Publishing, 2023).