La Vergne’s Leading Christian Therapy and Counseling

Mental health challenges don't wait for convenient moments or easy solutions. Whether you're dealing with anxiety that won't quiet, depression that colors everything dark, marriage problems that feel impossible, or family struggles that drain your energy, you need counseling that sees you as more than just symptoms to manage. At Exodus Counseling, we provide online therapy services to La Vergne residents, offering comprehensive treatment that integrates your mind, body, and spirit for genuine transformation.

Complete healing addresses every part of who you are. Schedule your consultation today or call us at (615) 437-7677.

Integrated Mental Health Care for La Vergne

Beyond Quick Solutions

Many counseling approaches offer temporary relief through coping strategies and symptom management, but they miss the deeper issues that keep you stuck in recurring patterns. While these methods might help you get through difficult days, they don't create the lasting transformation you're seeking.

We take a different approach. We understand that your mental health challenges are connected to every aspect of your life—your relationships, circumstances, physical health, and spiritual well-being. True healing requires addressing these interconnected areas as a whole, not treating them as separate, unrelated issues.

Our Transformative Method

Uncovering Root Causes Instead of just managing surface symptoms, we work together to understand what's really driving your struggles. This deeper work creates change that lasts through life's inevitable challenges and transitions.

Faith-Centered Healing Your Christian beliefs aren't something we avoid or work around—they're a powerful source of strength and healing that we naturally integrate into your treatment. We offer ongoing faith-based support to complement your therapeutic journey.

Tools That Actually Work We provide practical strategies that function in your real-world situations, not just concepts that sound inspiring but crumble when life gets difficult.

What We Offer You

• Comprehensive care that honors your whole person
• Integration of faith with proven therapeutic methods
• Practical tools designed for everyday life challenges
• Personalized support for your unique healing process
• Help finding meaning and purpose through your struggles

Therapy Services for La Vergne Residents

We provide comprehensive mental health services designed to address the complex challenges facing individuals and families in today's world.

Marriage Counseling in La Vergne

Marriage today faces unprecedented pressures from demanding careers, financial stress, parenting responsibilities, and the constant busyness that can leave couples feeling like strangers living in the same house. Whether you're newlyweds struggling to blend different backgrounds and expectations, long-married couples who've lost emotional connection, or spouses facing major relationship crises, we help marriages not just survive but flourish. We work through communication breakdowns that create ongoing conflict, trust violations from infidelity or dishonesty, intimacy problems that leave couples feeling distant and disconnected, financial disagreements that create constant tension, parenting conflicts that divide couples against each other, and the slow erosion of friendship and romance that happens when life becomes all about responsibilities. Our therapy for marital stress combines research-proven approaches like Emotionally Focused Therapy and Gottman methods with biblical wisdom to help couples rebuild emotional intimacy, develop healthy communication patterns, restore physical and emotional connection, and create a shared vision for their future together.

Teen Counseling in La Vergne

Today's teenagers navigate a complex world filled with social media pressures, academic competition, peer influences, and profound questions about identity and purpose that can feel overwhelming and confusing. We provide counseling that empowers teens while strengthening family relationships and communication. Common struggles include anxiety and depression that interfere with school and relationships, self-harm behaviors or suicidal thoughts, eating disorders and body image struggles, substance use experimentation, sexual identity confusion, academic stress and perfectionism, social drama and bullying issues, and conflicts with parents about rules, expectations, and growing independence. Our family and teen counseling helps teenagers develop emotional maturity and regulation skills, learn healthy stress management and coping strategies, improve communication with parents and family members, explore identity questions within a biblical framework, and build confidence grounded in their relationship with God rather than peer acceptance or academic performance.

Depression Treatment in La Vergne

Depression can strike anyone at any time, regardless of success, faith, or life circumstances. It's not a character flaw or spiritual weakness—it's a serious condition that requires professional understanding and compassionate support. Whether triggered by major life changes, ongoing stress, traumatic experiences, medical issues, or brain chemistry imbalances, depression creates a darkness that can feel impossible to escape without help. Symptoms often include persistent sadness or emotional numbness, loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed, significant changes in appetite or weight, sleep disturbances or chronic insomnia, overwhelming fatigue despite adequate rest, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, and thoughts about death or suicide. Our integrated therapy for depression combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address negative thought patterns and beliefs, behavioral activation to gradually increase meaningful and enjoyable activities, interpersonal therapy to strengthen supportive relationships, mindfulness techniques for emotional awareness and regulation, trauma-informed care when depression connects to past painful experiences, and faith-based interventions that restore hope, purpose, and connection with God during the darkest seasons of life.

Anxiety Treatment in La Vergne

Anxiety can manifest in countless ways and significantly impact your ability to enjoy life, maintain relationships, and function effectively in work and family responsibilities. We treat various anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety that creates constant worry about everything, panic disorder with frightening physical symptoms that feel like medical emergencies, social anxiety that limits relationships and career opportunities, specific phobias that restrict daily activities and choices, obsessive-compulsive disorder with intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and perfectionism that creates paralyzing fear of failure or judgment from others. Our online anxiety counseling sessions utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and modify anxious thought patterns and beliefs, gradual exposure therapy to reduce avoidance behaviors and build confidence, relaxation and breathing techniques to calm physical anxiety symptoms, mindfulness practices to stay grounded in the present moment rather than catastrophizing, acceptance-based approaches for managing uncertainty and unpredictability, and faith-based strategies that help you trust God's sovereignty and care while taking wise action in challenging situations.

Trauma Therapy in La Vergne

Traumatic experiences leave lasting imprints that affect how you think, feel, relate to others, and navigate the world around you. These experiences can range from single devastating incidents to ongoing trauma that shapes your entire worldview and sense of safety. We treat childhood abuse and neglect in all its forms, adult sexual assault and rape, domestic violence and emotional abuse, military combat trauma and PTSD, serious accidents or medical trauma, sudden losses that shatter your sense of security, natural disasters and community violence, and complex trauma from repeated experiences over time. Our trauma and anxiety therapy employs EMDR to safely process traumatic memories without re-traumatization, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy to address trauma-related thoughts and behaviors, somatic approaches to release trauma energy stored in your body, narrative therapy to help you reclaim your story with meaning and hope, and faith-based healing that helps you understand how God can bring beauty from ashes while restoring your sense of safety, trust, and ability to form healthy, secure relationships.

Self-Esteem Counseling in La Vergne

Healthy self-esteem forms the foundation for satisfying relationships, career success, and spiritual growth, but when self-worth is damaged, it affects every area of life. We address various self-esteem challenges including relentless inner criticism that creates constant self-attack, perfectionism that prevents risk-taking and authentic expression, chronic people-pleasing that sacrifices personal needs and boundaries, comparing yourself to others and always feeling inadequate, imposter syndrome despite legitimate accomplishments and skills, fear of failure that keeps you stuck in safe but unfulfilling patterns, and shame about past mistakes, failures, or perceived inadequacies that feel unforgivable. Our self-acceptance therapy sessions uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge negative self-talk and distorted beliefs about yourself, strengths-based interventions to identify and develop your unique gifts and abilities, values clarification work to guide authentic decision-making and life choices, assertiveness training to communicate needs and boundaries respectfully, self-compassion practices to treat yourself with the same kindness you'd show a good friend, and biblical counseling that grounds your worth in God's unconditional love and acceptance rather than human approval or achievement.

Grief Counseling in La Vergne

Grief is the price we pay for love—a testament to the depth of connection and meaning someone or something held in our lives. Loss comes in many forms and affects each person differently, with no right or wrong way to navigate the journey of mourning. We support people through death of spouses, children, parents, siblings, close friends, sudden unexpected deaths that shock and devastate, prolonged illnesses that involve anticipatory grief, pregnancy loss and infertility struggles, pet deaths that often go unrecognized, divorce and relationship endings, job loss and career changes, retirement transitions and identity shifts, empty nest when children leave home, health diagnoses and disability, and loss of dreams, hopes, or life expectations that feel like death of your future. Our grief recovery therapy provides safe space to express all emotions without judgment or pressure to "move on," education about grief's unpredictable and non-linear nature, support for finding meaning and purpose in loss, guidance for maintaining healthy connection with memories while building new life, practical help for navigating difficult dates, anniversaries, and milestones, and faith-based support that addresses spiritual questions and anger at God while offering hope for healing and eventual reunion.

Anger Management in La Vergne

Uncontrolled anger damages relationships, destroys opportunities, and contradicts our Christian witness in the world, but anger itself isn't necessarily sinful—it's how we express and manage it that matters. We treat various expressions of problematic anger including explosive outbursts that hurt relationships and damage trust, passive-aggressive behaviors that create ongoing tension and resentment, chronic irritability that affects daily interactions and family life, road rage and workplace conflicts that threaten your reputation, domestic arguments that escalate dangerously and frighten family members, resentment and bitterness that poison your heart and relationships, and anger that masks deeper emotions like hurt, fear, disappointment, or grief that need attention. Our anger counseling services employs Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify triggers and modify thinking patterns that escalate anger unnecessarily, emotional regulation skills to manage intense feelings before they become destructive, communication training to express needs and frustrations assertively rather than aggressively, conflict resolution strategies for handling disagreements constructively and respectfully, stress management techniques to prevent anger buildup from daily pressures, trauma work when anger masks deeper wounds from past experiences, and biblical approaches that emphasize forgiveness, self-control, and responding to conflict with wisdom, grace, and love.

Addiction Counseling in La Vergne

Behavioral addictions create cycles of shame, secrecy, and despair that destroy relationships, careers, and spiritual health, often feeling impossible to overcome alone despite repeated attempts to stop. We treat pornography addiction and sexual compulsions that damage marriages and self-esteem, gambling problems that threaten financial security and family stability, shopping addictions and compulsive spending that create debt and relationship conflict, internet and gaming obsessions that interfere with real-life relationships and responsibilities, workaholism that destroys work-life balance and family connection, and other compulsive behaviors that feel completely out of control despite consequences. Our addiction support services utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify triggers and change addictive thought and behavior patterns, dialectical behavior therapy skills for managing urges and intense emotions without acting destructively, motivational interviewing to strengthen internal motivation for change and recovery, acceptance-based approaches for handling cravings and urges without automatically acting on them, trauma therapy when addiction serves to numb deeper emotional pain and wounds, and grace-based recovery that emphasizes God's forgiveness and transformative power while building accountability relationships, healthy coping strategies, and sustainable freedom from compulsive behaviors.

Eating Disorders Counseling in La Vergne

Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions that require specialized understanding, compassionate treatment, and coordinated medical care for complete recovery. These disorders often develop as attempts to cope with emotional pain, trauma, or overwhelming life circumstances through control of food and body. We treat anorexia nervosa with its dangerous restriction and weight loss, bulimia nervosa involving secretive binge-purge cycles, binge eating disorder without compensatory behaviors, exercise addiction and compulsive movement patterns, chronic dieting and food obsession that consumes mental energy, emotional eating patterns that use food for comfort, and other disordered eating behaviors that damage both physical health and emotional well-being. Our treatment for food-related disorders employs eating disorder-specific cognitive behavioral therapy designed for these complex conditions, dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation without using food behaviors, intuitive eating principles to restore natural hunger and satiety awareness, body image therapy to develop healthy self-perception and acceptance, trauma-informed care when eating disorders connect to abuse or other traumatic experiences, and faith-based healing that emphasizes your identity and worth as God's beloved creation while coordinating closely with medical professionals for comprehensive physical and emotional recovery and long-term health.

Ready to Begin Your Healing Journey

Taking the first step toward counseling requires courage and hope, and we want to make the process as welcoming and accessible as possible. We've eliminated unnecessary barriers so you can focus on receiving the support and healing you deserve.

Ready to start? Here's how:

• Call us today at (615) 437-7677 for a free consultation
• Schedule online at exoduscounseling.org/contact-us
• Email us by clicking on the email button on our website

During your complimentary consultation, we'll take time to understand your unique situation and concerns, explain our therapeutic approach and how it might help you, and determine together whether we're the right fit for your healing journey.

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Self-Pay

We operate on a self-pay model that's simple, secure, and allows complete freedom in providing quality care. Your therapist focuses on your needs without insurance restrictions. Your records remain private. No pre-authorizations or claim forms. You can check our rates for pricing information.

Strengthening Christian Families

We understand that Christian parents want mental health care that supports rather than undermines their family values and structure. You're looking for counselors who share your faith, respect your parental wisdom, and work to strengthen your family bonds rather than create division or confusion.

Our counseling operates from the same biblical foundation that guides your family decisions and values. When your child needs support, you can trust that we'll reinforce the principles you're teaching while addressing their individual struggles and developmental needs. We believe that God designed families as the primary environment for growth, healing, and character development.

Rather than creating secrets or undermining parental authority, we work to improve family communication, resolve conflicts in healthy ways, and build stronger relationships. We help young people see their emotional struggles as opportunities for growth, resilience, and deeper understanding of God's faithfulness through difficult times.

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Questions About La Vergne Counseling

How do I know if counseling is right for me or my family?

Counseling can help when you're feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unable to resolve problems on your own. If you're experiencing persistent sadness, anxiety, relationship conflicts, or behavioral issues that interfere with daily life, counseling provides tools and support for positive change. Many people find counseling helpful even when they're functioning well but want to grow stronger or prepare for life transitions.

What makes your Christian approach different from secular therapy?

Our Christian approach integrates biblical principles with proven therapeutic methods, recognizing that spiritual health affects mental and emotional well-being. We see your faith as a source of strength rather than something to avoid discussing. This doesn't mean we only offer spiritual advice—we use evidence-based techniques while helping you understand how God can work through the healing process.

How do you ensure my privacy in a smaller community?

We maintain strict confidentiality standards regardless of community size. Your therapeutic information stays completely private between you and your counselor. We understand the unique concerns about privacy in close-knit communities and are committed to protecting your confidentiality throughout your therapeutic journey.

Can counseling help if my problems feel too big or complicated?

Many people worry that their problems are too complex or overwhelming for counseling to help. In reality, counseling is often most beneficial for complicated, long-standing issues that feel impossible to resolve alone. We're trained to help with complex trauma, severe depression, serious relationship problems, and other challenging situations. Taking the first step is often the hardest part.

What if I'm not sure counseling will work for me?

It's normal to have doubts about whether counseling will be effective. Many successful clients started with similar concerns. During your free consultation, we can discuss your specific situation and explain how our approach might help. If we're not the right fit, we can help you find resources that better meet your needs. The important thing is taking steps toward getting support.