When fear and shame keep winning: counseling in Franklin, Mt. Juliet, and Tennessee telehealth

People find me from Franklin, from Mt. Juliet, and from the rest of Tennessee on telehealth. The city is not the point. The point is this: you want growth and healing, and fear and shame keep winning the next hour anyway.

From the outside you can look fine. Work gets done. The people closest to you may not know there is a second, managed version of you that never quite comes off. That is the outside layer — not a diagnosis, just the split.

Underneath it, fear and shame still pick the next move. You know what you would rather do. You do the old thing. That is the part I sit with. I do not promise a cure. I do promise a confidential room where you do not have to keep performing the managed version.

If you start, the change I watch for is ordinary: a pause instead of a spiral. One version of you in the room. Showing up as yourself at home. Taking life back in small, observable ways — not a greeting-card ending.

I practice with Alliance Counseling. I am licensed in Tennessee. The (A) on LPC-MHSP(A) means associate: I work under a licensed clinical supervisor, as the state requires. I see people in Franklin and Mt. Juliet, and by telehealth if you are in Tennessee.

If you want to know what a first conversation actually is, read what a consult actually looks like. If you want the person before the plan, more about Derek. When you are ready to write, the contact page is the next step.