“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Therapy for couples, individuals, and teens in Franklin, TN and the greater middle Tennessee area.
Most of my clients feel:
They lack a deeper sense of meaning in their life.
An experience of loneliness, confusion, and/or sense of being “stuck.”
A longing to be more connected to themselves and the ones that matter most to them.
They struggle to communicate vulnerably and effectively with their spouse/partner.
They struggle to make sense of what is happening in their life, past or present.
How I can Help
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Individual Counseling
Hunter provides a space and therapeutic relationship for you to explore the places where you feel most stuck in life. Hunter uses his expertise in attachment and neuroscience to conceptualize where your adaptations are powerful and helping you, and where some of your adaptions may be preventing you from living the life you deserve.
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Couples Counseling
Feeling stuck in a loop of having the same fight over and over? Struggling with intimacy and closeness? No matter your presenting concerns, having a “third party” to help break you and your spouse out of your negative cycle is tremendously beneficial. Hunter works with the relationship in order to foster closeness and intimacy using Emotionally Focused Therapy.
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Adolescent Counseling
Often times adolescents enter counseling after escalating behaviors have been uncovered by a caregiver. Hunter believes those behaviors are attempts to get needs met. Hunter has the skills and training to provide a space for your teen to be seen for who they truly are…and to get underneath the behavior, where true change happens.
What I help with
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Anxiety shows up in many different forms: racing thoughts, rumination, physical symptoms, fear about the future, to name a few. When you begin to develop a different relationship with your anxiety, that’s when the symptoms improve. Hunter will work with you to change these stories as well as provide useful and practical coping strategies.
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A complex and often debilitating experience, depression can feel like being trapped in a dark tunnel with no light in sight.
Hunter will work with you to form a different relationship with your depression and “change the narrative” while also working to create more meaning and purpose in your life. -
Often times what gets us “stuck” in relationships are old stories and patterns that are replayed in the present. Hunter uses the therapeutic relationship as a tool for initiating change and helping you to deepen your understanding of “why you do what you do” in relationships.
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When someone experiences a single traumatic event or recurring trauma for an extended period of time, they might begin to struggle with upsetting emotions, frightening memories, or a sense of constant danger. Some people begin to feel numb, disconnected, and unable to trust other people.
As a trauma-informed therapist, Hunter uses evidence-based practices to help foster safety in the therapeutic space and provide tools for you to begin the process of recovery. -
Finding yourself stuck in a loop of attempting to stop or decrease your use but only to find yourself back in the same place? You’re not alone, and it’s not as simple “using more willpower.”
Hunter believes that the abuse of substances are an attempt to get a relational need met. Hunter will work with you to understand what needs substances meet and help you to grow in meeting those needs relationally instead of with substances.