David Sturgess is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Marietta, Georgia. He owns Foundry Counseling, LLC, just off the Marietta Square.

For over a decade, he worked as a therapist in two of Georgia’s short- to long-term Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs). During the last two years of working in the hospital setting, he operated his private practice part-time. In Spring of 2019, he left the treatment facility environment to do private practice full-time. 

His experience and focus have been helping individuals and families learn how to cope and heal from childhood and family systems trauma, self-destructive and life-threatening behaviors; dual diagnoses; trauma amongst military and first responders and their families; and providing consulting and training to churches, schools, businesses and various types of agencies. He is trained in Trauma-Focused - Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Trauma-Informed Care, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Gottman Relationship Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).