East Memphis Team Gallery

Dr. Marissa Gray joins Forward Counseling as a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She teaches at the Loewenberg College of Nursing as a Clinical Assistant professor of Mental Health Nursing. She previously served as the clinical facilitator and clinician at Midsouth Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and has extensive experience in pediatric, adult, and recovery mental health, specializing in resilience, holistic wellness, and trauma-responsive psychiatric care with a focus on empowering self-efficacy, emotional regulation, and mindfulness-based stress reduction. Her interests lie at the intersection of advocacy, education, community networking, and program development. She intends to empower healthcare providers and leaders in interdisciplinary teamwork that promotes mental health, wellness, and resilience.

Are you ready to grow mentally, emotionally and spiritually? Michael believes that every human being has the capacity and right to think, feel, learn, love, and to grow into one’s maximum potential. He helps clients develop the coping skills, motivation, self esteem, confidence, and perspective taking needed to face struggles within and outside of one’s self.

He utilizes a variety of therapeutic approaches, including but not limited to experiential, humanistic, person centered, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, solution focused, motivational enhancement, and acceptance and commitment therapies.

Dr. Wanderman is a health advocate and doctor who utilizes progressive and effective techniques and considers his clients’ health from a Holistic Perspective. He believes that healing occurs when the whole person—body, mind, and emotions, are considered.

Dr. Wanderman has been in practice for over 45 years. His philosophy of practice is that there must be a partnership between patient and practitioner with open communication going both ways. He uses conventional medicine as well as nutrition, vitamins and supplements, and incorporate other alternative modalities when needed. His concern is overall health, and his goals are to keep clients off of medication whenever possible, and to teach clients how to be and stay at their healthiest.