Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) Therapists in Chattanooga, TN

When someone is experiencing life stressors and hard times it can become difficult to have hope for happier days. It can be a hard journey to take in being able to learn how to cope with these stressors and find hope that one needs in order to live a healthier, happy life. It is my goal as your counselor to provide a safe, supportive, and nonjudgmental environment for someone to take this journey. I look forward to empowering people to grow as individuals and reach their goals that will help them to live a more meaningful life.

We all have struggles we have to face—and sometimes we need the help of a trained professional to overcome those struggles. As a licensed counselor, I provide a safe and welcoming environment in which people can express themselves without fear of judgment, a place where they can feel heard and valued. Because I believe strong relationships are vital to the healing process, I am passionate about providing therapy from an interpersonal perspective. As such, I work with teens, couples, and families on issues ranging from spirituality to addiction to trauma to mood disorders such as anxiety, depression, grief, and anger.

I understand the exhaustion that can come from feeling like you’ve tried everything. Whether you are a young adult looking for services for yourself, or a parent seeking services for your child, I would love to join you in your journey to try and trust the therapeutic process.

When people experience life stressors or trauma, it's not uncommon for their lives to feel like they're unraveling. My passion is to use a solution focused methods to set goals and improve client outcomes. Many people want answers, and I enjoy helping others find answers. I enjoy exploring solutions through recognizing how life experiences impact behavior patterns.

I offer Life/Career Coaching and Integrative Psychotherapy to help you make and keep personal and professional changes, fulfill your potential, improve your health, and heal from the negative experiences and beliefs that hold you back. I am certified in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling, Clinical Hypnotherapy, and EFT (acupressure), I currently work with clients in person or virtually in Chattanooga, TN and virtually with clients from Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia, and surrounding areas.

I specialize in individual and relationship counseling focused on building positive strategies to help you have the life and relationships that you desire. Whether you are dealing with anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, breaking free from a toxic relationship, parenting challenges, adult children who are struggling to launch, or other life stressors, I believe you can find relief in a short amount of time with some simple yet intentional changes.

I enjoy helping people build resilience, hope, and courage in their lives. I work with adults and teenagers who are seeking to improve their emotional intelligence, responses to stress, and ways of working through life's challenges. I particularly enjoy working with athletes who are looking to improve their performance, as well as people who consider themselves to be "workaholics". Improving our mental health directly affects our performance, whether we are on the sports field, in the gym, at home, or our workplace.

Change is really hard. Even welcomed change can bring adjustments, anxiety, and grief that can set us adrift and stifle forward movement. Maybe you feel anxious, depressed, or are grieving, but not always sure why you feel that way. Healing, growth, and awareness can happen in the context of healthy relationships; our relationship with self, others, and God. As a clinician, I want to work with you to cultivate a healthy relationship in order to facilitate movement on your unique path toward wholeness and health.

I love working with adults experiencing difficulties with managing stress, anxiety and depression. I will help to establish effective goals in addition to providing therapeutic support throughout your sessions. I want to assist you in creating manageable goals that you can progress towards with confidence. I like to focus with clients on how they may have learned a behavior and exploring where that has been beneficial or if it has been hindering a client growth.

I provide counseling and consultative services. With the help of my colleague, Mark Shively, we also provide training using biofeedback technology. As a counselor, my role is to listen, discern strengths and vulnerabilities, and invite growth/advancement from those placing trust in my care. As a consultant, I strive to provide fair/impartial answers (in the manner of a scientist) to posed questions. Cognitive -behavioral training can address many thought patterns, behaviors and physiological states (such as stress).

"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin per Talmudic origin. We must create things twice; once in our minds, and once articulated. When we think our thoughts, it lights up one part of the brain, and when we speak our thoughts, it lights up a different part of the brain. There is often something very different when we articulate our thoughts, and they change in some way. Talking out these experiences in a narrative way assists us in making sense of how we feel about those experiences.

If you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, frustrated and unsure how to move forward, struggling with communication problems, conflict resolution, feeling disconnected, or suffering with anxiety, panic attacks, trauma/PTSD, depression, men's issues, or dealing with a new life change, or others issues.

I view counseling as a journey of awareness, growth, and self-compassion. As your travel companion, I aim to provide insight, encouragement, and a gentle nudge to help you reach your destination. I work with individuals, groups, and families of all ages and backgrounds and have specialized experience helping clients with issues of anxiety, grief, trauma, spirituality, self-harm, and gender identity. When appropriate, I offer dreamwork, sandtray therapy, and psychotherapeutic Reiki interventions. My approach is collaborative and respectful, primarily drawing from an integration of humanistic, cognitive , and narrative frameworks.

Through the therapeutic relationship, I provide a safe and inviting place to be vulnerable, to process life adjustments, and to begin learning healthy coping skills. I have 10 years of experience engaging in counseling relationships with children, adolescents, and adults in the Chattanooga area. I believe that change begins in the context of an authentic relationship and that every unique story deserves to be heard. Drawing from family systems, interpersonal, and cognitive -behavioral approaches, I provide evidence-based therapy for both individuals and families.