Have you ever wondered " How does my past affect my present or future?" Let's dive into a soulful conversation with Dr. Truth.
Dr. Ngonzi Truth Crushshon, Psy.D. is the owner/founder of Dr. Truth and Associates, LLC and a licensed-eligible clinical psychologist.
Her private practice is located in Atlanta, Georgia established January 2019. Dr. Truth has over 15 years clinical experience working as a mental health therapist within trauma centers, clinics, and schools within urban communities. Dr. Truth has specialized training in suicide prevention & intervention techniques and has worked extensively with dually diagnosed (chronic medical conditions/chronic mental health diagnoses; substance abuse/chronic mental health diagnoses) children, adults and geriatric patients within nursing homes/long-term care facilities, hospitals/ Emergency Rooms, and the suicide/homicide crisis call centers. Dr. Truth specializes in healing for psychological trauma and enhancing protective factors to ensure the well-being of her clients. Dr. Truth utilizes CBT-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF CBT) and storytelling to help individuals “work through” and to process their thoughts and feelings while telling their trauma stories. Dr. Truth’s purpose and mission is to BREAK GENERATIONAL CYCLES that state if you were born with certain risk factors you must live a certain lifestyle. Dr. Truth empowers and assists individuals, couples, families and communities to interrupt their old schema/their old way of thinking and feeling in order to establish new thought & feeling patterns; thus reclaiming their identity, internal power and true purpose so they can live their best lives. Dr. Truth also provides extensive psychological assessments/testing for psycho-education, psycho-sexual, social security evaluations and bariatric surgery.
Dr. Truth Speaks is a platform that Dr. Truth utilizes to educate the public on “hot topics” in mental health. Dr. Truth has facilitated/co-facilitated trainings/workshops within schools, churches/spiritual institutions, community and city/state/government organizations such as the:
Georgia Department of Public Health-GDPH
Georgia Department of Family, Children Services-GDFCS
Chicago Public Schools-CPS
As a Restorative Practices Consultant with Phoenix Diverse Holistics Collaborative, Dr. Truth provided behavioral health prevention services, peace circles and conflict resolution stuent/staff trainings within the Chicago Public Schools, Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center and Ada S. McKinley’s Early HeadStart in order to restore hope and healing. Dr. Truth partners with various grassroots and community organizations geared toward empowering urban youth and families to educate and build their toolbox of protective factors to enhance their well-being and to live healthier lives.
Founder of the FAITH, HOPE, LOVE COMMUNITY, Dr. Truth’s passion is empowering individuals with the skills and resources to break generational cycles of unhealthiness by changing old patterns of thinking, feeling and behavior with new ones. She provides among many services, psychoeducation and employment resources for ex-offenders (FAITH Empowerment Institute), youth mentoring (Generation HOPE Youth), and workshops to sustain long-term healthy love relationships (Chicago Urban LOVE Series).
Dr. Truth has written/published scholarly research: Protective Factors for Black Males in Academic Settings, Mate Selection a
