1. CENTER FOR Relational Care®
Bruce Walker PhD, LPC-S, LMFT-S, Executive Director
11615 Angus Road, Suite 218, Austin, TX 78759
512/492-6200 www.RelationalCare.org
Helping people
experience
deeper, more
meaningful
relationships
withGod
andothers
The Center for Relational Care Announces New Atlanta-Area Office
with Dr. Courtney Putnam as Director
The Board of Directors and leadership team of the Center
for Relational Care (CRC), based in Austin, TX, are excited
to announce a new Atlanta-area office, opening January
1st, 2017 in the North Atlanta suburb of Woodstock, GA.
Established in 2006, the CRC’s mission is to support and
equip churches to minister effectively to hurting people
and to accomplish this in two ways – counseling and
training. The Center for Relational Care provides
counseling services for healing and change. CRC
counselors serve children, families, single adults, and
married couples as well as provide trauma recovery
therapy, especially for those seeking EMDR Therapy.
They provide therapy and support to hurting
relationships, wounded hearts, and struggling lives
through an accelerated process of growth, hope, and
healing, including CRC’s Relational Care IntensivesTM for
couples, families and singles.
CRC clients may choose to participate in the Accelerated Relational Care (ARC) Process. This
unique approach helps many clients jump-start the counseling journey with 8-12 hours of
counseling completed in a condensed period of time, known as a Mini-intensive.SM This
experience followed by a marriage intensive can be particularly helpful for couples. A similar
program is available for some individuals and families. An exciting result of this new Atlanta-
area center will be the opportunity to offer Relational Care Intensives for single adults in
Georgia. Previously, singles intensives have only been held at CRC’s headquarters in Austin, TX.
As the flagship counseling center for “Intimacy Therapy,” developed by Dr. David Ferguson of
Intimate Life Ministries, CRC also uses its expertise to train counselors and pastoral leaders
around the world in this biblically-based and clinically sound counseling model that helps
hurting people experience God’s presence, provision, compassion, and truth. Entry- and
advanced-level training in the model is offered in Austin and Atlanta in CRC’s More Than
CounselingTM workshops.
CRC has a long history of partnerships with counselors, pastors, and ministry leaders in the
North Atlanta area. Current CRC partners include: psychologist Dr. Andy Ward and Jodi Ward,
LPC of the Ward Psychological Group in Roswell, GA; James Eubanks, LMFT, LPC, the Director of
Counseling at First Baptist Church of Woodstock; Dave Lewis, Director of The Basic Idea
Ministries; and Dr. Courtney Putnam. Therefore, it is with great joy and enthusiasm that we
welcome Dr. Courtney Putnam as the Director of CRC-Atlanta.

2. CENTER FOR Relational Care
®
11615 Angus Road, Suite 218, Austin, TX 78759 512/492-6200 www.RelationalCare.org
Helping people
experience
deeper, more
meaningful
relationships
withGod
andothers
Dr. Putnam brings over 13 years of experience, including private practice as a Licensed
Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, teaching counseling to
graduate students, conference speaking, supervising graduate student interns and associate
licensed professional counselors, and directing counseling centers in Louisiana, Texas, and
Georgia. Dr. Putnam is a graduate of Cherokee County’s Etowah High School and holds a
Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Louisiana State University. She earned a Master of Arts
in Professional Counseling from the Psychological Studies Institute (now Richmont Graduate
University) and a Ph.D. in Psychology and Counseling from New Orleans Baptist Theological
Seminary.
After returning to Georgia from Texas three years ago, she established her own practice,
SpringLife Counseling and Coaching, and served as a contract counselor for the First Baptist
Church of Woodstock Counseling Center. During this time, Dr. Putnam also did contract
counseling for CRC, providing two-day intensive therapy for couples in crisis using CRC’s
Accelerated Relational Care Process. She also co-led CRC marriage intensives at the WinShape
Retreat in Rome, GA.
Dr. Putnam says about her new role at CRC: “I am extremely honored and humbled to stand
alongside the gifted team of counselors at the Center for Relational Care in this new initiative
to provide individual, marriage, and family counseling in the North Atlanta area, and to serve
together with our partners at WinShape Marriage, where marriage intensives offer healing,
reconciliation, and growth for couples in crisis from all over the U.S. I’m very excited to
establish the CRC office in Woodstock and look forward to building relationships with and
serving our area pastors and church staffs and the community at large for many years to come.”
Dr. Bruce Walker, the Executive Director of the Center for Relational Care, says about the
addition of Dr. Putnam to the full-time CRC staff: “Many of us at CRC have had the privilege of
working with Dr. Putnam as a colleague and Professional Associate in years past, and we have
come to value her skills, knowledge, ethics, and heart for God and His people. As we open this
new Atlanta center, we look forward to years of mutually-rewarding partnership with Dr.
Putnam in a calling to help hurting people heal and grow as individuals, couples, and families.”
Dr. Putnam will develop a “Pastor Support Center” where ministry leaders can reach out for
resources and referrals to serve the mental and emotional health needs of their congregations.
Though initially services will be available for only adult individuals and couples, counselors
experienced in working with children and families will be added to our team early in 2017.
The CRC-Atlanta office will formally open on Tuesday, January 3, 2017 in the Ivy Village Office
Park at 3380 Trickum Road, Building 200, Suite 102, Woodstock, GA. The vision is to pursue a
permanent office location along the I-575 corridor, to open in Summer 2017 and to be easily
accessible to clients from all of Cherokee County and the surrounding areas. The CRC-Atlanta
office can be reached at 678-653-3CRC (3272). More information about the services offered
can be found at http://www.relationalcare.org. Couples interested in Center for Relational Care
marriage intensives at WinShape Retreat can visit http://www.relationalcare.org/intensive-
retreats and http://winshape.org/marriage/save/save.html.