Dr. Georgina Panting-Sierra is a licensed mental health professional with over 20 years of experience helping individuals, couples and families improve their relationships and overall life satisfaction.

Georgina specializes on working with people struggling with depression and anxiety. She also focuses on issues pertaining to women, such as stress management for the working mother, parenting, and abuse prevention and treatment. As a breast cancer survivor, she is fully aware of the struggles related to short and long-term, complicated medical conditions and how they affect individuals and their relationships.

Georgina is also a Certified Prepare-Enrich (www.prepare-enrich.com) facilitator, and enjoys working with engaged and newlywed couples. She is a certified Brain Coach by the Amen Clinics. Her expertise also include helping parents developing a healthy bonding as they welcome their new babies. In addition, her experience extends to blended families and their challenges.

As a Latina, Georgina has invested a significant portion of her professional life, providing services for Latino immigrants who benefit from Spanish speaking services as well as offering workshops on parenting and couples issues to Hispanic churches and the Latino community in general.

Georgina has a vast experience educating and supervising counselors in training. She is an affiliate professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, in the Master level Counseling programs and the Latino Ministry Formation Program (LMFP). At Indiana Wesleyan University, she is an adjunct professor in the online Bachelor’s degree in Addiction Counseling. She is a State-Qualified Supervisor for Master level interns of mental health and marriage and family counseling.

Dr. Georgina Panting-Sierra received her Doctoral degree in Counseling Education and Supervision from Northern Illinois University and her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College, Illinois. She was born and raised in Honduras, where she received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the Autonomous National University of Honduras.

Georgina is married and has two grown stepchildren and three younger children. She enjoys photography, reading, listening to music and watching movies with her husband.

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