Our Story

Here at MRD&CA Solutions, we’re committed to investing our expertise and resources in order to further achieve our cause. Since 2000, we’ve been supporting our community members in a variety of ways and measuring our success not by monetary size but by more qualitative measurements such as the scale and effectiveness of our efforts. Just imagine what we can achieve together!

MRD&CA was created by Monique R. Darnell, whose passion is helping people. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor within the state of Georgia and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Florida. She is also a Certified Clinical Mental health Counselor through the NBCC. She specializes in behavioral therapy that addresses mental health conditions, ie, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Conduct disorder, ADHD, and Adjustment disorder with mood and conduct disturbances.

Monique Darnell, LPC, CAADC, CCMHC, NCC

Licensed Professional Counselor & CEO/Founder

Monique Darnell, LPC, CAADC, CCMHC, NCC is a licensed professional counselor and the CEO/Founder of MRD&CA Solutions LLC, offering secure telehealth therapy to adults throughout Georgia. Monique’s work is rooted in helping people find their way back to themselves after seasons of survival, emotional overextension, or silent suffering. She specializes in trauma recovery, anxiety, relationship distress, and major life transitions, with particular care for women who have spent years being strong for everyone else while feeling unseen, depleted, or disconnected inside.

Many clients who enter therapy with Monique are carrying the weight of unprocessed childhood pain, attachment wounds, complex family dynamics, or faith-related hurt—often without realizing how deeply these experiences have shaped the way they cope, love, overgive, or live on guard. Survival mode can look like people-pleasing, hyper-independence, emotional shutdown, perfectionism, or repeatedly choosing relationships that echo old wounds. Monique helps clients name these patterns with compassion and begin releasing what no longer serves their healing.

Her approach is trauma-informed, culturally attuned, and identity-affirming, blending structure and softness in a way that supports both stabilization and deeper repair. Sessions often integrate CBT and DBT-informed strategies, nervous-system and somatic awareness, and inner-child/parts-work to gently reconnect clients with the younger parts of themselves that learned to survive through protection, performance, or silence. Therapy is collaborative and paced with care—helping clients build emotional safety, strengthen boundaries, regulate stress responses, and cultivate self-trust from the inside out.

Monique believes healing is not about becoming someone new; it’s about returning to who you were before the wound—and learning how to hold yourself with tenderness and truth. Her work supports clients in moving from merely functioning to feeling grounded, whole, and emotionally free.

Areas of Focus Include:

Trauma recovery and survival-mode healing
Anxiety, chronic stress, emotional overwhelm
Inner-child healing, re-parenting, and parts-work
Boundaries, people-pleasing, and codependency
Attachment wounds and relationship patterns
Complex family systems and generational trauma
Faith-related hurt, spiritual burnout, identity strain
Self-worth, emotional regulation, life transitions

Tanesha Smith

Clinician M.Ed. CMHC BA Psychology

Tanesha Smith is a Mastery level Clinical and Mental Health therapist, an ABA therapist for children on the autism spectrum, as well as specializes in diabetes prevention and chronic illness care. She started her journey in the world of psychology, mental health, and holistic health graduating with a BA in Psychology in 2016 and a MEd in Clinical and Mental Health in 2025 from the University of West Georgia.

Life experiences have taught her that therapy is not just for problem solving, but to gain different perspectives, rediscover self, and continue to build on the strengths of an individual. With over a decade of training in juvenile programming conducting therapy, outpatient therapy for dual diagnoses suited for adults and children, and as a professional behavioral aide for adults with disabilities, her vast range of skills allow her to reach, teach ,and guide all individuals for their mental health journey.

Tanesha specializes in person centered therapy meeting her clients where they are and helping guide them to where they want to be. Also, Tanesha has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, to help improve client’s distorted thinking and find a state of balance between emotion, logic, and teaching about the impact of physical health on the mind. With the help of guided meditation, reframing thoughts and dietary food management, Tanesha guides her clients with empathy, transparency, and compassion, to improve their livelihood.

Growing up with her own childhood trauma she saw firsthand what addiction, distorted thinking, depression, anxiety, and most other mental health challenges that impact day to day living,
because of this, she can meet her clients where they are, with unconditional positive regard.

Tanesha loves to write, sing, workout, and being with her family is her favorite part of life.

Availability

9am -10:30am & 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm M,W,Th,F
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Saturday 10am -12:00PM
Sunday 6:00pm-8:00pm