Effective counseling requires a good match between therapist and client. You are looking for answers and Ben is looking to teach people how to manage their thoughts and emotions. While he loves learning my client’s stories, he loves even more teaching them how to handle their more difficult thoughts and emotions. He views his role as a therapist is not to just listen to you, but to help better manage your thoughts and emotions.
Ben is a Licensed Professional Counselor at our Johnson City, TN office specializing in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety, PTSD, and Panic Disorder. He also works well with depression, life transitions, and marriage/relational problems.
He holds Master’s of Science in Counseling from Milligan College. He primarily utilize Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or similar treatment models such as Exposure and Response Prevention (for OCD/Panic).
He is a native of East Tennessee. In his free time, Ben enjoy spending time with his wife and daughter. You can also find him stomping around the local outdoors hiking or fly-fishing. On Saturdays in the Fall, he’s another emotionally dysregulated Vol fan.
Get To Know Ben
I love people. I enjoy getting to be involved in the smallest concerns from making decisions, emotional struggles, to fears and sadness. I am honored to be invited into the smallest details to the major changes of someone’s life. I love the process of growth and the honor of being part of someone’s journey.
People should try counseling because life is easier if you are not alone. Counseling provides an opportunity for connection that is a special relationship and is unlike any other in our daily life.
I hope my client’s feel how much I care about their concerns. I want them to feel that I see them and hear them and they matter.
I feel excited when I can see clients are feeling heard and connections are being made.
I hope that client’s learn to trust and validate themselves.
I am an introvert who loves people. I love to talk but I love to listen more. I love to connect and walk with others through difficult times.
Heartless by Morgan Wallen
Love is Blind
The Outsiders