Primary Location
I am taking careful measures to ensure client safety, and will continue to see people in the office or by telehealth, as they prefer.
About
I help gifted, hurting individuals and couples, often ages 30-60, experience relief from the loneliness and destructive behaviors that arise from trauma and addiction. I work with individual survivors of physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse, as well as couples in distress, moving with them through the cold shadow of death when there seems no way out, to find a way through. My clients find increasing freedom from anxiety, fear, anger, and self-hatred, and release into powerful ways of living. I help people stop running from their pain and shame and start walking in peace to make conscious positive choices.
As an integrative therapist, I work very gently and with great empathy, finding lost pieces and connecting memories of abuse with current conflicts. I engage with your thoughts and dreams, reflecting with you and developing new frames for the struggles you carry. The path of healing is deeply spiritual: I help clients transform trauma into a life of love.
I know suffering inside and out. I have walked with many scores of people through the hell and chaos of confusion and pain. Wealth and power provide no escape route from the isolation of disconnection. No matter who you are, what you feel, what you doubt, or who you love, you don't have to stay alone in fear. Let me walk with you toward healing.
Call or Email David S Thornton for a free 15 minute consultation now - (615) 239-0611
Finances
- Session Fee: $150 per session
- Sliding Scale: Yes
Pay By:
Cash, Check, Mastercard, Paypal, Visa
Qualifications
- Years in Practice: 20 Years
- School: Lipscomb University
- Year Graduated: 2017
- Supervisor: Richard Bruehl, MDiv., PhD
- Supervisor License: Tennessee / 304
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: Fuller Graduate School of Psychology / M.A. in Clinical Psychology
- Certificate Date: 1997
- Certificate: ACPE
- Certificate Date: 2022
Endorsements
"David is a wonderful listener. His ability to hear "the kernel" in what is shared is one of his gifts, along with true empathy and respect for people's individuality. He is effective with a wide array of clients. I am proud to have him as a colleague."
Primary Location
Specialties
- Relationship Issues
- Sexual Abuse
- Spirituality
Issues
- Anxiety
- Codependency
- Depression
- Divorce
- Emotional Disturbance
- Family Conflict
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Marital and Premarital
- Men's Issues
- Narcissistic Personality (NPD)
- Self Esteem
- Spiritual abuse and trauma
- Stress
Mental Health
- Personality Disorders
Client Focus
I also speak:
French and German
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
Communities
- Cancer
- Gay Allied
- Lesbian Allied
- Non-Binary Allied
- Racial Justice Allied
- Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Attachment-based
- Compassion Focused
- Culturally Sensitive
- Emotionally Focused
- Experiential Therapy
- Family / Marital
- Gottman Method
- Imago
- Integrative
- Psychodynamic
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family
Last Modified: 29 Mar 2023
(615) 239-0611