Individual Counseling for Men in Nashville, TN

Office located in Maryland Farms

You’re a good man.

You work hard. You show up the best you can. You want to live a full life with less anxiety and more connectedness - to yourself, others, and God.

But, you find yourself stuck and not sure how to move forward to get where you want to be.

Or, things are pretty good overall and you’re ready to dig deeper into understanding yourself and why you do the things you don’t want to do.

Maybe you:

+ Feel like there are unprocessed things you’re ready to work through.

+ Are bogged down by thoughts, feelings, or unwanted behaviors.

+ Want your relationships to be healhier.

+ Feel the burdens of relational trauma or complicated family dynamics.

+ Feel like an imposter and to be more confident with who you are.

That’s where I come in. Here’s my approach:

CURIOSITY + COMPASSION + SLOWNESS

Attachment is the emotional bond between us and our caregivers. We are heavily influenced by our family of origin regardless of how “good” our childhood was. In order to change the present, we must engage the past.

Together, we’ll explore early relationships with caregivers, family dynamics, and significant childhood experiences to help understand how that might be impacting you today.

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ATTACHMENT FOCUSED

“Everything you judge about yourself served a purpose at the time.” - Gabor Mate

Trauma is experienced by external situations such as war, sickness, and overt forms of abuse. And, it is also experienced in close relationships. Ongoing abuse (sexual, emotional, physical, spiritual), abandonment and enmeshment can impact our lives on a deep level.

Unaddressed or unprocessed trauma/wounds are not left in the past. They impact our body and mind, affecting us presently and can come out sideways such up as unwanted behavior, relational issues, shame, depression, anxiety etc.

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TRAUMA INFORMED

“Trauma is not what happens to you; trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.” - Gabor Maté

Our emotions are experienced first in our bodies. Our brain then makes sense of our felt experience and often categorizes it as “good” or “bad.” The problem is we learn to disconnect from our body and spend majority of the time living just in our head.

This can leave us disconnected from ourselves, others, and God.

Together, we will learn to integrate your body, mind, and spirit (heart) so you can show up with your whole self.

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EMBODIED

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.” - Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score

We all need a guide on our journey.

With years of engaging the depths of my own story, a masters degree in understanding people and relationships, and thousands of clinical hours, I’m committed to being your guide.

Together we will set goals, explore your story, come to feel safer in your body, learn new tools, and make sense of what lies beneath the surface and experience lasting change.

If you’re ready to do that work, let’s get started.