Welcome to Life-Skill Solutions
Center for
Counseling and Coping Skills Training
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*****My private practice specializes in psychotherapy interventions
and personalized coping-skills training for adults, adolescents and families, with the goal of improving mental, emotional,
behavioral, and family functioning.
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*****In my psychotherapy practice, I utilize a supportive, goal-oriented
integrative approach using Cognitive-Behavioral, Realty and Interpersonal Therapy with an emphasis on finding solutions to
personal problems and developing positive coping skills for effective living.
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*****My areas of specialty include
Individual Emotional Distress, Family Life Issues, Marriage Counseling, Parent/Child Relationship Challenges, Divorce Transition,
Life-management Skills, Self Esteem and Personal Growth.
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Professional Fact Sheet -
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◊ Licensed by the State of Tennessee as a Licensed Professional Counselor with Mental Health
Service Provider designation
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◊ Certified by the National Board of Certified Counselors as a National
Certified Counselor
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◊ Certified by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission as a Certified Employee Assistance
Professional
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◊ Certified by the Tennessee Supreme Court as a Rule-31 Listed Family Mediator
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Approved provider of Court mandated Divorce / Parenting Education Seminar
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♦ Private Psychotherapy Practice since 2000
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60-hour Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Memphis, with post Master's course work from Freed-Hardeman
University
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♦ Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Lambuth University
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♦ Over 10 years
experience at the Exchange-Club Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse, working with individuals and families
providing direct support services. Duties included: parenting education, community awareness presentations, six years
experience providing parent counseling, parent training and facilitation of group parenting classes, five years providing
program development, staff in-service trainings and staff supervision
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♦ Five years experience, part-time
volunteer Staff Supervisor and Case Consultant for the Carl Perkins Center in Jackson
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♦ Currently
serving on the Advisory Board for the Madison County Relative Caregiver Program for the Madison County Carl Perkins Child
Abuse Prevention Center
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♦ 2001 - 2009 Member of the Board of Directors of the "WRAP" Wo/men's
Rape and Resource Assistance Program
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♦ Currently serving on the Worksite Wellness Committee for the Jackson/Madison
County Community Health Action Team
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♦ 2005 - Elected to the Board of Alderman for the City of Three Way Tennessee
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*****As a Licensed Professional Counselor,
I am bound by the Code of Ethics of the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counseling Association, the American Association of
Christian Counselors, and the Employee Assistance Professional Association. I am committed to conducting my practice
within the highest possible professional standards.
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*****As a Christian, the mission of my
practice is guided by the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; where there is
hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there
is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy....O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as
to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love...for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
