Shae Pugliese, MS, MFT
Shae understands how overwhelming it can be to find a therapist and she is so glad you are here and want to take the next step towards healing. She also wants to remind you that whatever you need support with now, you are not alone.
Shae is dedicated to helping clients move from merely surviving to truly thriving. She offers a safe and compassionate space for your healing journey.Shae works with individuals, couples, and families from all walks of life and she acknowledges the importance of meeting clients where they are.
Shae uses an integrative approach that focuses to connect the mind to the body, creating lasting change. She is passionate about building a strong therapeutic relationship where you feel supported and empowered. Her approach to therapy is grounded in attachment and is trauma-informed, allowing space for you to connect with yourself and others.
She specializes in navigating difficult life transitions, relationship issues, and trauma and PTSD. She is trained in a variety of modalities and treatment strategies to inspire hope. In sessions, she incorporates both a modern and postmodern approaches using a variety of theories, including the Gottman method, Internal Family Systems, Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Experiential Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.
Her hope is that you feel seen, heard, and accepted. Your story matters and she is honored to be a part of the journey. Shae is ready to help you create a life where you feel empowered and at peace.
Robert Gurich, LPC
Bob is a counselor from Cleveland, Ohio who is licensed to work with clients anywhere in Tennessee. His friends describe him as loyal, trustworthy, and he enjoys continuing to foster long-term friendships from his youth.
Bob starting his career in counselor at an experiential counseling facility where he helped thousands of clients create and follow detailed recovery plans. He has experience working in individual, couples and group settings.
After personal losses of his own, Bob identified the importance of counseling in his own healing. He has found that a great therapist is one who first does their own work, so they have more to offer clients. Bob works best with clients who are motivated for change and are ready to face their healing head on. In his spare time, he volunteers with recovery programs for Parkinson’s disease.
Rashelle Reynolds, AMFT
Rashelle Reynolds is a pre-licensed marriage and family therapist. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a bachelor's in psychology. Moreover, she studied for a master’s in marriage and family therapy in 2020 and gained experience working in residential facilities, outpatient clinics, community agencies, and private practice settings.
As a therapist, she follows her clients on their healing journey. She values healing and uses the skills and tools she has learned to assist people who seek peace and internal joy. She specializes in anxiety, trauma, stress, grief, and relationships. Her approach is to provide a warm, safe space where clients can be themselves and breathe. She has over 10 years of experience helping clients reveal the deepest parts of themselves that have prevented them from being and living to their most genuine potential. Peace does exist, and everyone deserves abundant peace and security.
Nemetria Tate, PsyD
It can be difficult to ask for help, but nobody can do everything on their own. Nemetria is a psychologist that received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has a passion for working with adults experiencing low self-esteem, boundary problems, communication difficulties, difficulty adapting to new changes, trauma, anxiety, and depression. She collaborates with her clients using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy along with other therapeutic approaches while taking a culturally sensitive and strengths-based approach to ensure you have a therapeutic experience tailored to you. She welcomes clients who identify as women, provided their needs align with her expertise. Her interests include listening to audiobooks, watching movies, and playing games with loved ones.
Sarah Catherine Trumbull, MA, P-LPC
Sarah Catherine Trumbull believes healing is found through relationships. She believes in creating a safe and secure environment for you to feel known, heard, and cared for throughout your healing process. Sarah Catherine views therapy from a whole and holistic perspective that considers a person’s emotional, physical, and spiritual parts. She has a passion to work with individuals of all ages and all walks of life. She is specifically drawn to those who are experiencing depression, anxiety, eating disorders, grief, low self-worth, trauma, and other life adjustments or transitions. While integrating therapy approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and psychodynamic theory, she also identifies that each person has their own unique story.
Sarah Catherine believes counseling offers a safe place to engage your story, be reminded of your worth and value, and be equipped to make sense of the hurt you may be experiencing. It is her honor to be a part of that journey and assist in your movement toward wholeness and empowerment. Sarah Catherine currently resides in Memphis with her husband and chocolate lab and loves to bake, paint with watercolors, and go outside!
Branden Brown, MFT
Branden works with individuals, families and couples of all ages who are looking to meet goals and tackle issues that may be holding one back from feeling peace and content. He works with clients who are looking for additional support with depression, grief, trauma, life transitions, ADHD, and overuse of alcohol.
Branden shares with his clients that he considers his sessions to be like going to the mechanic; the client knows what one is coming in for, and he’s there to help guide one towards the skills and habits that can make life’s transitions run smoothly.
Laid back, and easy going, Branden likes to laugh and have fun while in sessions. He has worked in diverse settings in the mental health field for the past 10 years, and has worked with Forward Counseling as an intern before receiving his master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy.
Angelik Sims, Life Coach
Angelik’s coaching experience has included campaign strategizing for individuals running for local and state government positions, divorce court coaching, and working with individuals experiencing institutional injustice. She has spent several years helping individuals and businesses organize protests, fight unfair lawsuits, strategize for removal of stressors to business and individual life, and formulate strategies for beating unjust treatment in court.
Angelik’s own experience with an unjust court system was the catalyst for her discovery of an ability to strategize and build a reputation for businesses and individuals dealing with stressors. In 2020, during her own experience in divorce court, Angelik was targeted by a judge who was subsequently removed from the bench due to abuse of power. Although she knew it seemed like a difficult feat to challenge a member of authority in an unfair institution, Angelik realized she could form a strategy to raise awareness for her family’s unfair treatment in the court system. Angelik’s work helped to uncover many other individuals who had experienced unfair and irrational treatment from this particular judge. This led to this judge’s investigation and ultimate removal from a position of power. After her own success fighting injustice, Angelik realized she could be a voice of hope and guide for others experiencing the same thing.
Since then, Angelik has helped parents who have unfairly had their children removed from the home, women dealing with unjust or unsubstantiated treatment in divorce court, and individuals in positions of power who want to form business growth strategies. She has been known to travel to where her clients need her, including to attend court or organize protests. Angelik is eager to provide tips for success to others and fight unjust systems in America.
Lauren Baker, M.Ed., LMSW
Lauren is a licensed social worker passionate about working with children, adolescents, and adults to support hope and healing during challenging times. She considers her clients the experts in their lives and approaches therapy as a team experience. Her experience includes working as a Licensed School Counselor for 15 years and as an individual and group therapist for children and adults.
She utilizes the theoretical foundations of Strengths-Based Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Trauma Therapy. She is S.A.F.E. EMDR trained. Lauren will offer expressive therapies such as Narrative, Art, Child-Centered Play, and Mindfulness techniques to enhance client growth. Lauren utilizes a variety of approaches and modalities to meet clients where they are. She is open to working with clients of all genders and religions and provides an open-minded, judgment-free approach.
Lauren works with various issues, including school-related issues, social skills, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
For those looking for a coaching relationship or to improve their performance or identify their life’s purpose, she is also a certified Life Coach.
Elizabeth Welwood, LPC-MHSP
Elizabeth is a warm and inviting counselor who takes pride in maintaining an encouraging and non-judgmental approach to therapy. She enjoys working with adults who are eager to change.
She is skilled in helping clients work through anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, negative body image, and relationship issues. She believes it is vital to develop a healthy relationship with oneself to create an internal environment conducive to lasting change. Elizabeth teaches mindfulness and self-compassion techniques. Emotional pain is inevitable in life, and it is important to work with the pain rather than against it.
Elizabeth sees symptom improvement when interweaving Psychodynamic Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Somatic Experiencing (SE). She is skilled in helping clients understand the root of their emotional suffering, tolerate distress within the body, and create a life consistent with personal values.