Alyssa Stines

I have worked since 2009 in residential treatment facilities for adults struggling with addiction and mood disorders. Clients of mine have been known to say that I challenge them directly, but in a way that lets them know that I respect and care for them, as well as believe in their ability to heal. I am a firm believer that people are not defined by their actions, rather that their actions let you gain insight into the wounding from the past.  One goal I would encourage my clients to consider would be to come to the realization that their past does not have to define their present and should not write their future.

I am a Level II EMDR practitioner, a Comprehensive Resource Model therapist, have advanced training in Brainspotting with an emphasis in attachment and disassociation, and am a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist.  I graduated from the University of Tennessee's College of Social Work.  Prior to this, I was the Vice President of a publishing company where I was in charge of the circulation department, making this a second career for me and the one I believe I was always supposed to do.