Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) are highly-trained mental health professionals who bring a family-oriented perspective to health care. We evaluate and treat mental, emotional disorders, and behavioral problems. We address a wide array of relationship issues within the context of family systems. This includes and is not limited to Depression Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Grief, Adjustment Disorders, Alcohol-Drug Abuse, Anger, and Abuse Issues. Many forms of therapy will be utilized to include Clinical Hypnosis.
MFT's believe that individuals and their problems must be seen in context and the most important context is family. MFT's want to understand the problem as it exist now and focus on solutions or actions which might help resolve the problem within the family or individual. Click here for additional information about MFT's. Marriage & Family Therapist are licensed with the State of Tennessee.
What is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor-LADAC?
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors are professionals highly trained in providing evaluation and treatment of:
1.) problems of persons who abuse mood-altering chemicals within the context of individual, group, family and significant other systems, 2.) those persons who have had their lives significantly impacted by another person's use of alcohol or other drugs of abuse.
Licensed Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors provide service that include primary functions of: Intake, Screening, Client Orientation, Client Assessment and Placement, Treatment Planning, Counseling, Case Management, Crisis Intervention, Client Education, Referrals, Reports/Record Keeping, and Consultation.
LADAC's meet the client where he/she is at, assessing for the level of care that will best help the client to understand substance abuse. Counseling for individuals who experience problems with alcohol/other drugs focuses on assisting the client to understand substance abuse and to develop skills to reduce and eliminate use. Counseling for persons whose lives are impacted by another person's use of alcohol/other drugs focuses on assisting the client in understanding that he or she did not cause, and cannot control or cure the other person's substance abuse, and what he or she can do to develop skills for self-care and resolution of the impact of substance abuse in her/his life.
What is a Licensed Massage Therapist-LMT?
A Licensed Massage Therapist specializes in working with the body through many tools and techniques to release dysfunction and pain that interfere in the healthy performance and daily activities of human beings. An LMT also deals with chronic and acute illness, injury and stress, and Tina McMillian uses CranioSacral Therapy, a bodywork modality that helps the body release emotional and physical trauma, in addition to an eclectic mixture of massage techniques. Her gentle but firm massage helps everyone from kids with "growing pains" and school stress to senior citizens with osteoarthritis--and every body in between--experience freedom from pain, stress and dysfunction.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.....It's about learning to dance in the rain.....author unknown