Howdy. I’m an LPC (licensed professional counselor), and founder and owner of Alethia Family Counseling Center. I office in Tyler, Texas on South Broadway behind the Slim Chicken. Appointments for me, or any other counselor, can be made at 903-561-8955.

I’m also a pastor, speaker, consultant, author, and disciple maker, but this page is devoted to my role as a counselor and therapist.

Deciding to come to counseling (as well as the counseling process itself) can be very difficult, so here is some information about me that will hopefully help you make your decision wisely.

My Therapy Techniques

My style of therapy is generally called “eclectic,” which means I make use of many different styles and techniques of counseling. I utilize Reality Therapy techniques, Gestalt work, psychotherapy, Jungian archetypes, personality theory, paradoxical work, REBT, transactional analysis, and virtually anything else I come across that works. I believe that each human being is so complex and unique that no single therapeutic theory covers everyone.

So, I encourage people to deal with the past by speaking truth over it and not ignoring it, but this doesn’t mean living in the past. Understanding, speaking and accepting the truth about our history is a work of the present. I encourage people to face the present and future honestly.

Even though we celebrate mental health and counseling in our culture, I think many more people could use counseling than get it. Even getting therapy takes a certain level of emotional health. Coming to counseling for the first time can be pretty tough, so I applaud anyone strong enough to do it, especially those who seek help before they’re in stage four sickness.

Counseling isn’t meant to last forever, so come in with some specific goals and you and I will work together to identify and deal with those and any others that arise. Generally, I talk to people for about 50 minutes every session, but the real work comes in the hours in-between sessions.

As a final word for this section, beware of getting counseling when it’s storming and the roof is leaking, and then quitting when the rain quits rather than when the roof is repaired.

Counseling and my Christian Faith

I am (and everything thing I do is founded on being) a follower of Jesus into life and death, and life again. According to name-calling bullies in Antioch, 2,000 years ago, that makes me a “Christian” (little Christ). I guess we ran with it. 

I think the most important thing in life is to have a right relationship with our Creator. It would be impossible to overestimate, philosophically, how important it is for a created being to know its Creator. Of the major views on this question, Christianity offers what I consider the most reasonable answers on how to have that relationship.

So, on one understanding, I am a Christian therapist. However, I’m not exclusively what’s called a “biblical counselor,” nor do I only counsel other Christians. Not at all. I agree with the way I was taught: I expose my faith, but am careful not to impose my faith on my clients. It isn’t always an easy integration, but that’s my goal.

The main way that my faith and philosophy impact my counseling is with regard to truth.  I believe in truth and in its power to set us free (John 8:31). I think it’s vitally important for everyone to be able to acknowledge the truth about their lives. Orwell’s 1984 makes this point when it notes that true freedom begins with the freedom to speak the truth. Until we can say what we know is true, we are still bound.

Alethia Counseling Center

We believe in the power of truth.  We also believe in the power of freedom. And it is the truth that sets us free, and progressively, freedom opens us up to the truth. “Alethia” is the Greek word most often translated into English as “truth.” However, it has other meanings connected to it, like “revealed” or “uncovered.” The literal meaning of the parts of the word would be “without” plus “forgetting.”

It’s amazing how often dealing with and living in the truth not only involves facing today, but also yesterday and the future. It’s the goal of our therapists to help people come to the place of living a full and abundant life through truth. 

In addition to offering our counseling services, many of our therapists are also available for speaking engagements and consulting work. Please don’t hesitate to contact us about any of these.

We have a dynamic team of counselors with expertise in various disciplines, with a wide range of options for meeting times, fees, and more.

You can find out a lot more about our counselors or contact us at Alethia Family Counseling Center.

Alethia’s (Tyler Location) Address:

7925 S Broadway Ave. Suite 820

Tyler, TX 75703

Alethia’s Phone Number: 903-561-8955