Barrett Wilson, LMFT

Aug 25

Clinical Excursion Guide, Individual & Couples Therapist

Barrett regards his work with clients as an honor, a challenge, an art, a science, and a lifelong passion. His process with clients typically begins as a focus on the places of pain with solution-oriented, research-based approaches. From there, Barrett joins his clients in a deeper process for a better understanding of Self, relationships, brain science, behavioral science, and methods of finding sustaining life satisfaction. He regards his work of therapy as a sacred and grounding process, using the best current understanding of the brain, the mind, and his client’s unique lens to alleviate suffering.

Barrett provides a safe place in his sessions where clients can open up, explore, and discover the virtues or disharmony in their brains, behaviors, and relationships that provide the most profound sources of joy and pain. Barrett’s balance of purposeful focus on permanent solutions to his client’s most prominent challenges with patience, honesty, and respect for client process has led to profound success and lasting change in the lives of those he works with.

Specialities

Relationship Challenges
Communication
Identity/Existential Challenges
Anxiety
Depression
Couples Counseling
Parenting
Family Therapy
ADHD
Trauma
Divorce

Trainings, Theories + Modalities

Barrett relies on evidence-based therapeutic methods in his sessions. Drawing from the Gottman Method for couples counseling and relationships; Internal Family Systems for trauma and identity challenges; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy & Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction as tools for inner peace and life satisfaction; Attachment theory to better understand core relational dynamics.

Education

Master of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) -East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
Bachelor of Science in Psychology -University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee