Jack is a board-certified clinical psychologist who has been practicing psychotherapy with adults and couples for more than 30 years. He brings the experience of decades to his work as a counselor, educator, and consultant. As an Emeritus Professor in the University System of Georgia, Jack is retired from service as a dean and director of clinical training services for graduate programs in universities in Georgia and North Carolina. In addition to his psychotherapy practice, he is a writer, having published four well-received academic textbooks following social science research paths related to grief and bereavement, crisis intervention, and rural mental health.  He currently is a freelance writer and is widely published in a variety of print and on-line magazines, including NPR and PBS affiliates.

Jack’s experiential approach to helping others is found in the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), who wrote:

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear;                                             But, grateful, take the good I find, the best of now and here.                                 I break my pilgrim staff, I lay aside the toiling oar;                                             The angel sought so far away I welcome at my door.                                         For all the jarring notes of life seem blending into a psalm,                                And all the angles of its strife slow rounding into calm.                                      And so the shadows fall apart, and so the west winds play,                                  And all the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Jack is in-network with Aetna and is expected to be in-network with United Healthcare and Bluecross/Blueshield by the end of 2024. 

To make an appointment with Jack, email jrainer@samaritanatlanta.org, or call our intake line at (404) 228-7777.