: About Me

I am a School Counselor, Licensed Professional Counselor, Mental Health Service Provider, speaker, minister, artist, and writer. I graduated from Freed-Hardeman University in '99 with a degree in Bible & from Western Kentucky University in '04 with a graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. His writings have been featured in the newsletter for the Tennessee Association of Marriage & Family Therapy, Kaio (a Christian magazine for teens), Church Growth, and various middle Tennessee newspapers.

My passion is ...

Counseling

I know too much about ...

BBQ

My parents always told me ...

Succeed

My childhood ambition ...

Artist

Why I write ...

To help others in their family and personal situations.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Writing the Great American Romance

My first job ...

clerk at a boat dock

My inspiration ...

Robert Fulghum

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood How the father's absence affects the children

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I speak to women regularly who are in a state of turmoil because their husbands have left them. Maybe he left her for another woman, maybe it was for drugs, or maybe it was because he was not ready for the level of responsibility necessary to have the title of Daddy bestowed upon him. He leaves a frightened wife, but he also leaves behind children who will never know the love that both a father and mother can give nor the level of specific personal resources a man can impart on his offspring. There are many opponents to the man's role in the home, especially as they deal with his natural t...

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• Therapist/Counselor
• Helium Charter Member