Meet Our Team

MA, LPC

Taylor Krulac

Taylor's passion is fostering a strong therapeutic alliance and human connection with her clients. Therapeutically, she has a passion for helping clients find sustainable ways of living with mental health, especially with OCD and trauma.

Greenville is home to me. I am passionate about my work and my clients’ treatment progress. I am eager to get to know you, to get to know your therapy goals, and to get to know how we can tailor the treatment and therapy approach to uplift your current circumstance and achieve your ultimate potential while revitalizing your life passion and personal strengths.

l work with adolescents and adults. I specialize in working with individuals presenting with a variety of mood disorders such as OCD, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and acute crisis behaviors.

I earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Psychology from Clemson University in 2013. Becoming a therapist has always been a personal passion and career path. Upon graduating from Clemson, I earned my Masters of Arts (MA) in Counseling Psychology with the Mental Health Counseling track from Boston College in 2015. Boston College’s training emphasized a social justice orientation that I uphold in my therapeutic approach with clients. While obtaining my Masters degree, I worked as a clinical practicum student at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital. While at McLean Hospital, I specifically worked at the OCD Institute with direct training in Exposure Response Prevention (ERP).

As an LPC, I participate in peer clinical supervision with other clinical professionals to receive mentorship on my clinical endeavors.

I seek growth and to maintain ethical standards within my clinical training and treatment approaches. Therefore, my professional memberships are with the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF), the American Counseling Association (ACA), and the South Carolina Association of Licensed Professional Counselors (SCALPC).

MEd, LPC, NCC

Mia Martinson

Mia works to help clients improve their relationships with themselves and the world around them through perspective shifts, acceptance-based strategies, and healthy coping strategies. She places importance on a strong therapeutic relationship to help clients recognize strengths as well as unhelpful patterns and introduces research-backed ways to improve clients' patterns of thinking and behaving over time.

Each person approaches life with an arsenal of beliefs, skills, perspectives, fears, and motivations that are influenced by experiences, upbringing, biology, and other internal and external factors. My focus is to help you use your arsenal to navigate your life in a way that creates a grounded balance and room for growth. I specialize in working with clients over the age of 15 who present with anxiety disorders such as OCD and agoraphobia, depressive disorders, and eating disorders. I use Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to treat OCD and other anxiety disorders, as well as CBT, ACT, and DBT skills as applicable to treatment goals. While these evidence-based practices are necessary tools for successful outcomes in therapy, I also believe that our therapeutic relationship is an extremely important part of your care. I believe that you are the expert on your life, and I am here to help you learn new tools, challenge you, and support you.

I focus on using Exposure and Response Prevention as the main therapeutic tool to help clients improve symptoms associated with OCD, Eating Disorders, phobias, and other anxiety-related disorders. This requires a strong commitment from my clients to practice skills outside of therapy sessions! Seeking therapy is a huge step toward improving your wellbeing; it can be daunting to find a therapist who fits you well, to budget, and to commit. I truly believe that there is hope in this therapy and invite you to reach out via email or phone if you are ready to begin improving these symptoms.

Training: Mia's first experience with OCD was as a practicum student at the University of Mississippi's Clinic for Outreach and Personal Enrichment while earning her Master's in Counselor Education at the University of Mississippi's Graduate Program. Mia went on to provide therapy for eating disordered populations at the Eating Recovery Center in Greenville, South Carolina, where she was specifically trained in Exposure and Response Prevention for Eating Disorders in 2019. In 2022, Mia completed the Exposure and Ritual Prevention for OCD Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, Center for Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA).

LISW-CP

Angelina Dawkins

Angelina's passion is helping clients feel empowered in their journey of healing. Therapeutically, she has a passion for helping clients enhance self-confidence and self-compassion through trauma informed and solution focused practices.

My passion is helping others see their potential and feeling empowered. I always want you to feel heard, supported, and seen in our time together while working to achieve what is most important to you. I completed my Bachelors Degree in Social Work and Psychology from Valparaiso University and completed my Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My background is serving individuals with substance abuse concerns to the Veteran population as well as other mental health concerns. I worked in private practice in Illinois with adults and adolescents presenting with a variety of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression, self-esteem concerns, and traumas.

I am focused on a holistic approach in treatment, working together with clients to identify areas they would like to heal and strengthen in their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being for a balanced life. I focus on actively listening to provide a space of support and compassion allowing for exploration of emotions, thoughts, and feelings. I utilize a variety of techniques in my practice. Including Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Training (ART), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Solution Focused problem-solving.

Office Coordinator

Karen

Likely, your first introduction to our practice is with Karen. Karen strives to bring warmth, compassion, and clear communication to you when seeking to learn more about your possible options for mental health care in our community, and, more specifically, with Uplift Counseling Services.

Karen’s healthcare industry experience and background bring long-term knowledge of care and patient services to Uplift Counseling Services, LLC. She was a pioneer in the selling and education of doctors in pharmaceutical sales of newly commercialized medicines for patient treatments to combat HIV. Most recently, as health care rose to address the need for additional mental health care services, Karen shifted her career to align and support the much-needed areas of eating disorders and drug and alcohol addictions. Karen’s experience is now perfectly placed with her ability to assist clients’ path to a healthy journey of alignment with the clinicians at Uplift Counseling Services, LLC.