Life Coaching & Counseling

LIVING AND BEING

Do you feel stuck between existing and joyful living? There are many things we must learn about living and being if we are going to experience life fully.

We love to work through concerns like meaning, purpose, belonging, and how these shape your experience of living.

HABITS, THOUGHTS, & FEELINGS

Does it feel like your habits, thoughts, and emotions are out of control? There are issues that push their way into our lives and interfere with our functioning.

Helping people understand and respond to emotional reactivity, self destructive habits, anxiety, and depression are central to the counseling and life coaching at Emerging Strength.

MARRIAGE & RELATIONSHIPS

Does your relationship need a little help or a lot? Either way, relationships are not easy but getting hurt in them is.

At Emerging Strength we help couples move past pain and resentments to restore things like trust, respect, connection, and intimacy. Our marriage and family therapist can help you find your relationship strengths.

ADDICTION & RECOVERY

Is everything you love at risk because of alcohol or drugs? Maybe you aren't sure but have concerns and want help making sense out of it all. How ever you relate to substances we can help you sort it out.

At Emerging Strength we love to help people find their strength and build a life they love.

LIFE COACHING

Do you feel like your life is adrift without a clear direction and plan? Are you stuck asking yourself "what am I going to be and do" or "I want it all, how can I manage my life better"?

Life Coaching goes beyond goal setting to help people see their best life and live it. Let us help you see it, plan it, and do it.

TOOLS & SKILLS

Are you trying to fix what's broken with the wrong tool; it's frustrating, costs twice as much and looks half as good as you expected.

We provide our clients with tools and show them how to use them. There is nothing more useless than a tool you never take out of the tool box.

SUPPORT

Have you ever needed a little support only to find you're on your own? Building a life you love is a journey with many seasons. Sometimes you need weekly support and other times just a brief visit to reset and refocus.

At Emerging Strength we want to be supportive as you explore personal leadership and growth, going deeper into relationships, and building a life you love.

ONLINE

Are you immune compromised? Do you travel a lot for work or have a busy schedule? Are you quarantined again? Maybe you prefer meeting online for another reason, it's ok. We can do that.

You don't have to be in Knoxville, Oak Ridge, or Lenoir City we can meet virtually anywhere.

RESOURCES

Are you looking for additional resources to learn and grow?

Check out our eBooks, Blog or Facebook for some of our thoughts on things.

IT TAKES TIME

Transforming your self, relationship, or habits takes more than a master class. What ever changes are made they have to be baked into daily life. This takes trial and error over a period of time.

For this reason we work at a flexible pace so you can work in between our sessions as daily life and intention allow. We favor practical actions you feel confident doing in the middle of your week. Sessions could be weekly or biweekly and then space out more as you progress in skill and confidence.

TAILOR MADE FOR YOU

We begin by creating an atmosphere you can feel safe and accepted. This allows for comfort and rapport so you can share your experience, concerns, and goals.

We use a variety of assessments to understand you and develop a strategic plan to fit your values and goals.

This plan becomes a template to use over the course of therapy and beyond to help you stay on course.

WHAT WORKS

We draw from many different approaches that have been proven to work in laboratory research, therapy clinics, and real life. Most importantly we use methods compatible with and respectful of your values.

• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• The Gottman Method
• Solution Focused Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Mindfulness

REAL TALK

There are all kinds of talk and there are all kinds of talkers. It isn't always clear how talking helps; sometimes it even makes things worse. Only effective communication works effectively.

At Emerging Strength our counseling and life coaching are based on helpful conversations. We don't speak some weird industry specific jargon just real talk about what's important to you.

BETWEEN SESSIONS

Counseling and life coaching take place in sessions but change happens in the midst of your life. It shows up in small ways while cleaning house, paying bills, hanging out, or eating lunch at your desk.

The exercises we use emerge from our work and are tailor made for you. This helps leverage ordinary moments for extraordinary results.

PRICING

Life Coaching & Counseling are investments for yourself, your family, and your future. They pay dividends in the short term like learning how to think about and evaluate a complicated situation or concern. In the long run Life Coaching and Counseling are investment in being your best and living the life you love.

We do not accept insurance. You may however, be able to get reimbursed by your insurance provider directly. Sessions are $150/hr.