"Where there is no guidance and counsel the people will fall, but in counselors there is safety and security"
Proverbs
Dr. Alvin Sutherland Jr., the CEO of The Sutherland Center, LLC, is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). An alumnus of the University of West Georgia where he received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Recreation Therapy and Masters of Education Degree in Guidance and Counseling, Dr. Sutherland played and coached football while attending West Georgia. He earned his Doctor of Education Degree in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University in which he currently holds a position as an adjunct professor. Dr. Sutherland has conducted extensive research on the effects of father absence and leads groups on various issues pertaining to the father child relationship.
The Sutherland Center, LLC provides seminars on numerous topics for professionals, adults, and adolescents: “Effective Teaming”, “Effective Communication”, “Nobody Can Acquire Honor By Doing What Is Wrong”, “The Lost Child and The Loving Parent”, “Parentship Without Relationship Is Emotional Abandonment”, Solving Our Nations Problems “It Will Come When Men Say I Will Lead My Home”, and “Living Through Grief”.
Dr. Sutherland has experience in a variety of mental health settings within the metro Atlanta area including (but not limited to) a community mental health center (working with adjudicated youth and their families), psychiatric hospital (counseling youth with sex offending behaviors and their families), and the public school system (providing counseling and consultation services for middle school age youth).
The Sutherland Center, LLC also provides in-home assessments, individual, couples, and family counseling.
