Welcome to my practice.
I am glad you are considering my services for your counseling needs. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in the State of Tennessee. I am also an Certified Sex Addiction Therapist(CSAT) and Certified Multiple Addiction Therapist (CMAT). My work is framed within a Christian worldview. Feel free to explore this site for more information.
I work with individuals, couples and families in a variety of clinical issues, with special focus on sexual addiction treatment and marital crisis.
I believe my clients are worthwhile individuals, created in the Image of God, and capable of giving and receiving love. A variety of emotional blocks and problematic behaviors often keep them bound up in either isolation or in fearful control attempts. These dysfunctional efforts to soothe one's turbulent emotional life can create more damage in relationships. This can be true with those they love and also with themselves.
The healing process is one of addressing one’s “pathological relationship” with soothing behaviors, substances or beliefs, identifying nonsexual intimacy issues by strengthening relational skill sets, and increasing accountability and responsibility in life.
In the treatment of Addictive Disease and Intimacy Disorders, I typically employ a task-centered approach and advocate full disclosure between individuals if my client is a couple or family.