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Personal Growth Counseling

Personal Growth Counseling

  • Cookeville, TN
  • Outpatient

Personal Growth Counseling in Cookeville, Tennessee, focuses on comprehensive mental health services for individuals and families. They offer life coaching and employee assistance programs, accepting TennCare and most commercial insurances. A sliding-scale fee structure is available for need-based patients, ensuring accessible care for everyone.

While a specific mission statement isn't provided, Personal Growth Counseling is known for its extensive mental health services and commitment to helping clients manage emotional and behavioral problems.

  • Specializes in therapy and medication management for all mental health disorders, both situational and long-term.
  • Offers individual and family therapy addressing emotional and behavioral issues.
  • Features specialized programs like intensive EMDR therapy for trauma-related conditions.
  • Accessible through phone contact or walk-in appointments, serving all age groups, including children.

Personal Growth Counseling treats various mental health disorders and is beneficial for children, adults, and families seeking mental health support and treatment options.

  • 19 Conditions Treated
  • LGBTQ+ Allied
  • Insurance Accepted
  • 2 Levels of Care
  • Speaks English
  • 17 Therapies & Programs

Staff

  • Carole LovellPsyD, LCSWCEO and EMDR Therapist with expertise in personal growth counseling.
  • Mark LovellLCSWLicensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in personal growth counseling.
  • Christopher PaughLPC/MHSPLicensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider.
  • Sheila MastersLPC/MHSPLicensed Professional Counselor and Mental Health Service Provider.
  • Christy BennettLMSWLicensed Master Social Worker providing counseling services.
  • Melissa CollinsMA, EdSCounselor with Master's and Education Specialist degrees.
  • Lisa LovellMACounselor with a Master's degree in counseling.
  • Ronna WhitakerCounselorCounseling professional at Personal Growth Counseling.

Conditions and Issues Treated

Substance Abuse + Addiction Treatment

The inappropriate use of any drug in Cookeville, TN is substance abuse. This involves alcohol, medications, and illicit drugs. With a combination of physical and psychiatric therapies, drug addiction is successfully treated at Personal Growth Counseling. After Detox is complete, individuals follow-up with treatments treating the root cause of the addiction.

Dual-Diagnosis

A dual diagnosis is when someone deals with both alcohol and mental or emotional disorder. Emotional trauma, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression can be part of dual diagnosis therapy. It must happen simultaneously to get care for these conditions to handle any of them effectively.

Levels of Care

This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.

In outpatient programs at Personal Growth Counseling, the Cookeville resident can live with their family while continuing with their job or studies. Treatment includes educating the patient on drug abuse, medications, and counseling sessions at the individual or group level.

Therapies & Programs

Individual therapy involves one on one sessions between the patient and the therapist at Personal Growth Counseling. Individual therapy provides patients with a safe environment where they can openly discuss their problems with the therapist. The patients find the therapist as a person who they can trust. It helps them to open up and discuss personal and sensitive issues, which they may not be comfortable discussing in a group setting.

Individual therapy aims to identify the core issues that would have led the patient to substance abuse and address the root cause effectively. The therapist can develop patient-specific customized solutions through individual therapy, which aids speedier recovery.

Addiction and alcoholism always harm an addict’s relationships with others and none more than relationships with a spouse or partner. Couples therapy is an essential part of restoring trust and good communication to intimate relationships harmed by addiction. Couples therapy by Personal Growth Counseling helps repair the damage done to these important relationships.

Recovery can be more effective if the entire family’s involved. Family therapy hosted by Personal Growth Counseling brings in the addict’s family to explore genetic factors. It gives loved ones the tools for dealing with addiction and its underlying mental issues. It is a recommended step in helping addicts adapt to sober living.

Group therapy is an important tool in recovery. Addiction tends to lead to isolation and feelings of uniqueness. Accountability and friendship that is found in group therapy can be more effective than any single other treatment approach. With Personal Growth Counseling in Cookeville, Tennessee, there’s no reason to go through recovery alone.

Trauma is one of the most common causes of psychological disorders. It’s often found in people with addiction diagnoses. Trauma therapy addresses this by examining the emotions and thoughts people have formed due to past traumas. Traumas are complex but trauma therapy can reduce their ability to contribute to addictive behaviors.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is designed for those who are prone to self-harm and suicidal behaviors. Personal Growth Counseling aims to help patients understand the relationship between their thoughts, feeling and behaviors and it gives them the tools to make a change. It is effective for those whose addictions and behaviors stem from extreme mental health issues.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on the connection between how someone feels, acts, and thinks. It shows someone how to accept responsibility for their behaviors and actions, while also strengthening a person’s awareness of the circumstances they put themselves into. It can give people attending Personal Growth Counseling in Cookeville, Tennessee the strength to realize they were self-destructing, allowing them to finally reach out and get the help they need.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a treatment method to work through traumatic memories to find resolution. It may involve eye movement, hand tapping or other small movements.

The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians like those at Personal Growth Counseling in Cookeville, TN believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes.  

Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) uses low dose nicotine products to ween smokers away from cigarettes. The products get nicotine into the bloodstream without smoking reducing addiction to the physical habit. It also allows addicts to adjust to lower doses to reduce withdrawal symptoms.

Patient Experience

Experiential Therapy at Personal Growth Counseling

Experiential therapy involves recreating or creating new experiences for the patient. Many people struggled with past issues such as memories or trauma. By creating a new experience, it allows people to work through the issues associated with those moments in a new experience. This can give them a new measure of control and can help them role play a new scenario. That can help push addiction into their past and help them begin the healing process.

Payment Options

For specific insurance or payment methods please contact us.
  • Health Insurance
  • Self-Pay / Cash
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • Military Insurance
  • IHS/Tribunal/Urban
  • State-Financed
  • Sliding Scale
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    Location & Contact

    Personal Growth Counseling Location and Directions
    Address
    509 N Cedar Ave
    Cookeville, TN 38501

    Phone Number
    (931) 520-8435

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    • Gender
      Female, Male
    • Age
      Adults (20+), Children (0-12), Seniors (65+), Teenagers
    • Modality
      Couples, Family, Group, Individuals
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  • Listed July 21, 2021

    Updated July 25, 2024

    Cookeville, Tennessee Addiction and Treatment

    Tennessee joins the list of states with an above-average rate for drug and/or alcohol-induced deaths. Most of these deaths are related to opioids, such as prescription opioids. The Volunteer State ranks 2nd highest in the nation for the number of prescriptions given out. The state also ranks at the top for prescription drug-related overdoses.

    Putnam County, Tennessee, a vibrant community nestled in the heart of the state, has faced its share of challenges in recent years. From 2012 to 2015, the county witnessed a staggering 1,451 drug overdose deaths, with the death rate increasing significantly during this period. Putnam County's drug overdose death rate surpassed that of other counties in Tennessee, highlighting the severity of the issue.

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