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Dr. John Slate, LPC, LPC-MHSP

Stress, Anxiety Addictions Trauma, Abuse Self esteem, Motivation Depression
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About me

I have been a counselor for over 45 years. I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Mental Health Service Provider with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. My specialty areas include: working with adult children of dysfunctional families, addictions, PTSD, anxiety, depression, relationships, domestic violence, obsessive disorders, and schizophrenia. I have worked in a state-run mental health hospital, in an addiction treatment center, and in non-profit organizations. I recently worked as the clinical manager over two locations of 12 clinicians in private practice. I have been married to my wife for 50 years. Life has often been difficult and confusing for me; therefore, clients find me compassionate and non-judgmental. Perhaps you have issues that are overwhelming. I have discovered that it is never too late to change, to walk a more positive and happy life. Together, we can develop a plan and work through your stressful situations to recovery and healing.

Professional experience

45yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety Addictions Trauma, Abuse Self esteem, Motivation Depression

Additional areas of focus: Grief, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Aging and geriatric issues, Avoidant personality, Chronic pain, illness, and disability, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, First responder issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hospice and end-of-life counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Self-harm, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization

Clinical approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy

Services offered

Video
Phone
Live Chat
Messaging

License information

TN LPC 3741

TN LPC-MHSP 3741

Reviews

These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. John Slate. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.

I was a mess. Feeling frightened to do things, meet people, all the time. John was able to help me stay connected, allow me to open up and work at my own pace. His suggestions for exercise are very helpful and lay the foundation for next steps.

I'm confident today and am able to deal with stress, threats, and other nasty feelings that come from daily life & encounters. Even feeling at ease with stressors. And I continue to get better.

I owe it all to John and the hard work we've done together. Thank you Dr. Slate! I highly recommend him to anyone who have terrible thoughts and think life is not worthwhile, but are making the first brave step to seek help.

Written on Dec 11, 2024 after therapy with John for 4 months on issues concerning depression, and stress, anxiety

Approachable and extremely helpful therapist. Proved to me that online therapy can be as effective as in person therapy.

Written on Nov 29, 2024 after therapy with John for 2 weeks on issues concerning addictions

Very understanding and kind person, who always looks out for my best interests

Written on Nov 28, 2024 after therapy with John for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, self esteem, and adhd

Dr Slate creates an incredibly strong appeal to logic, which is the exact opposite of anxiety. Having dealt with anxiety, the high volume of strategies he offered that appealed to logic were a great help for me. He repeats certain phrases that you can latch on to that help apply coping strategies in real life, every day. Dr Slate is kind, attentive, humorous, and effective. He also is adaptive, learned what helped me most and made that the bulk of the material he gave me. Glad I got paired with him!

Written on Nov 21, 2024 after therapy with John for 3 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, and adhd

He is a kind and reasonable man. He is very sweet.

Written on Nov 15, 2024 after therapy with John for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd

He’s good at what he does

Written on Nov 06, 2024 after therapy with John for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, sleeping disorders, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd