Alison Cross
Founder and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Alison Cross, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in NC and a LPC in Georgia, is a working Mom who specializes in helping those with eating disorders and body image issues. Alison is also a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and loves supervising new and trained clinicians.
While living in Georgia for 23 years Ali worked at all levels of mental healthcare with a focus on clients that have a troubled relationship with food and body. Through teaching clients positive recovery skills, she noticed similar negative body talk and constant dieting outside of work. Is it a common and appropriate lifestyle choice for people to deprive and hate their bodies? Dieting and a negative body image are gateway behaviors to developing obsessions that could lead to having an eating disorder. In the interest of prevention and awareness, the Body, Beauty, and Bravery Project was born. Today, many people have had the opportunity to listen to Alison speak in a workshop, seminar, retreat, or day camp to learn how to feel at home in their bodies. Alison, her husband and 4 daughters moved to Asheville, NC in 2018 where she started her outpatient practice in both Hendersonville and Asheville. Since then she’s become a Level 1 Internal Family Systems therapist, completed the Level 2 training in the Embodied Recovery Model for eating disorders, and is a Certified Safe and Sound Protocol provider. She loves meeting with adult clients and working with all the things that tend to go along with eating disorders, like trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
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Supervising, consulting, and mentoring new clinicians is also a strong passion. Just before the pandemic Alison started a local non-profit chapter of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, where education and networking opportunities are provided to local healthcare professionals. In her spare time she loves to hang out with her family, hike, play piano, speak French, and explore the art of wood working.
Christy Jacoby
Christy Jacoby, LCSW works with individuals seeking support for anxiety, depression, life transition, feeling stuck, and relationship concerns such as divorce or break-ups. Using evidence-based and client-centered approaches, Christy offers a warm, collaborative space that supports healing, personal growth, and deeper self-understanding.
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Christy is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and has studied many modalities of western and easter therapies over the past 10 years. Christy is engaged in a lifelong study of mindfulness and yoga practices, including a three-year training with the American Viniyoga Institute and twenty years of continuing education at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Ma. As a former licensed massage therapist, she brings a strong mind-body orientation to her work, integrating emotional and physical awareness to support holistic well-being.
Clients often remark on Christy's ability to create a warm and supportive environment where they can let their hairdressers down and finally tell their story, and an ability to offer a practical, humorous approach to more esoteric concepts. Christy works with women aged 16 and up. In her spare time, Christy can often be found walking in the woods with her husband and their dogs, enjoying time outdoors re-watching Homeland. She is a proud parent to one adult son and a devoted dog parent to two much-loved pups.
Elliot Jernigan MSW LCSWA
Elliot works with individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, identity exploration, eating disorders, and major life transitions. He is especially passionate about supporting young adults and highly sensitive people in developing self-awareness, building self-trust, and reconnecting with their inner resources. His work focuses on helping clients cultivate stability, peace, fulfillment, and a deeper sense of meaning.
His approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and grounded in the belief that each person holds innate strength, clarity, and resilience. Elliot integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and evidence-based practices to support lasting growth and healing.
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Elliot offers a calm, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where clients can openly explore their experiences - including struggles, hopes, fears, and successes. He considers it a deep privilege to walk alongside people as they navigate life's challenges, and he values creating an environment where clients feel safe enough to be fully seen and vulnerable.
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With a background in wilderness therapy, veteran support, mindfulness, and yoga, Elliot brings together ancient wisdom and modern therapeutic approaches-including somatic work, mindfulness-based therapy, and trauma-informed care.
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Virginia Oman LCMHC NCPT
Working with Virginia is all about helping you feel better in your life-and more importantly, better about yourself. If you're ready to gain clarity, stop negative thought patterns, and move toward a more joyful, grounded version of who you are, you'll likely be a great fit with her. Whether you're coming out of a difficult emotional place or looking to take your life to a new level of fulfillment, Virginia offers the guidance and support to help you get there.
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Her specialty is helping people feel truly comfortable in their own skin. With a background in Positive Psychology and Wellness, as well as Mindset Coaching, she focuses on building healthy self-esteem and a strong, positive sense of self - because those are the foundations of a meaningful and successful life. Together, you'll work toward creating that for yourself.
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Virginia is also trauma-specialized and has helped hundreds of clients significantly reduce the emotional weight of past experiences. You don't have to carry that burden alone anymore.
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With over 30 years of experience, Virginia is deeply passionate about the work she does. She loves witnessing her clients' transformations- from feeling stuck, heavy, or disconnected to experiencing more lightness, peace, and joy. If that's something you're looking for, she offers a free consultation and would love to connect with you about how working together can support your journey.
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Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves and their life-and you can start that process now.
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Fun fact: Virginia is a musician who plays over 16 instruments and is an avid animal lover.
Interested in Supervision?
Alison offers supervision for professionals seeking licensure in both GA and NC. She is also an Approved Supervisor for anyone seeking their certification as an eating disorder specialist through iaedp. With supervision you can expect to learn more about Internal Family Systems and how to use this model with eating disorders. Alison also teaches the Embodied Recovery (trademark) model for eating disorders and integrates their take on Polyvagal Theory. Supervisees will also learn how Safe and Sound Protocol can be used to help everyone in their journey. Drawing on her background of top down models and showing how they connect with these bottom up approaches, supervisees will have a good foundation for working with all kinds of presenting issues that clients bring. Business development and support is also a part of the process.