Counseling Services IN Nashville,TN
Individual Counseling
“Beginning with the first day of life outside the womb, every child is asking two core questions: ‘Am I loved? And ‘Can I get my own way?’ These two questions mark us throughout life, and the answers we receive set the course for how we live.”
— DAN ALLENDER
We are all asking these two core human questions of ‘Am I loved? and Can I get my own way? How have you answered them? How has your story answered them? Where have you agreed with those answers? Individual Counseling is the relational process through which we began to re-explore, experience and wrestle with these questions.
“Even though you cannot change the events of your story, you can change the way you experience your story.”
— CURT THOMPSON
“I benefited greatly from my time with Will both one on one counseling and in group therapy sessions. He’s intent on ensuring you get the care you need, not just a process that you work through and hope it works. I highly recommend him.”
— FORMER CLIENT
Couples & Premarital Counseling
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.”
— C.S. LEWIS
Our most intimate relationships have the power to heal us and deeply wound us. Often we experience both of these in the same relationship. Drawing from the researched methods and approach of Emotionally Focused Therapy, I believe couples counseling is the process of slowing down, identifying your relational dance, exploring why that dance started and learning to dance differently. For pre-marital counseling, we use a collaborative and tailored approach to your relationship’s needs.
“Meeting with Will was the help I didn’t know I needed. To have a safe space each week that was just for me was exactly what I needed. He had the resources, experience and care to help me when I needed it the most.”
— FORMER CLIENT
Group therapy
Experiential, Process & Story Groups
“The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.”
— IRVIN D. YALOM
We are all made for, wounded in and healed through relationship. It is in being seen and known in our pain and failures that we begin to know love and experience healing. We offer three distinct types of Therapy Groups: Men’s Process Groups and Story Groups. To find out more details about the different group types, times and openings please contact us at info@madeandmattercounseling.com
The VALUE of participation in group therapy is the opportunity to:
realize there are others who share your struggles or understand what you are going through
practice the very relational issues you struggle with in everyday life with others seeking to address their own struggles and issues
give and receive real time, honest and direct feedback that increases your emotional capacity for intimacy with others in the group and in meaningful relationships outside of group (family, friends, and work)
experience authentic relationship in the context of confidentiality and caring
unravel and address spoken and unspoken relational family ‘rules of engagement’ that influence how you relate to others
recover the deep and good parts of yourself that have been lost or dampened by life happening
This list above is only a part of the benefits that members gain from participating in a group. To find out for yourself, join a group.
-From Jeff Grossman’s “Why Group Therapy” and it is only a part of the benefits that members gain from participating in a group. To find out for yourself, join a group.
“Group therapy with Will has been on of the most transformative experiences of my life. I wasn’t sure when he suggested it, but am glad I followed through with his recommendation. My spouse and friends can see the changes and want to thank him too!”
— FORMER CLIENT
Family counseling
“The greatest gift a parent has to give a child—and a lover has to give a lover—is emotionally attuned attention and timely responsiveness.”
— SUE JOHNSON
What patterns or power dynamics are causing your family to be stuck? What are the ways you as a family have missed each other? Drawing from the research of Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, our role as counselors is the sacred work of entering into the family system to evoke a different and more connected conversation.
“Will is a kind, gracious and wise counsellor. In my time with him, I began to see things affecting my life that were previously invisible to me. He did not rush me and gave me the space I needed to make changes for the better.”
— FORMER CLIENT
Speaking & Training
“Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free”
— JOHN 8:32
We have enjoyed speaking within many different groups and settings from churches, conferences, retreats, schools and businesses. We have developed teaching content over the years addressing leadership, marriage and conflict, parenting, men’s issues, emotional and spiritual health. We would love to know how we might be able to come alongside the work you are doing.
