You want to be more present in life with less anxiety & more joy.
You’re in the right place.
I’m Blake Roberts, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Brentwood, TN. Those credentials don’t mean I only work with couples and families. Most of my practice is made up of individuals in their mid 20s - late 40s.
I believe we’re hurt in relationships and we heal in relationship. We all have unaddressed hurts or wounds, influencing how we show up in the world today, that are impacted by our internal systems and family/cultural systems. Which is why I got a masters degree in learning how to understand these systems on a deeper level and work through them toward wholeness and healing.
Plus, my own personal journey of engaging the depths of my story over the years unearthed the desire to journey alongside others as they do this courageous work.
When I found a counselor I connected and felt safe with, and began to engage the nuance of my story, things began to change.
My relationship with myself, others, and God began to change. The ways I felt stuck and habits I couldn’t break began to make sense and happen less.
I learned a new way to connect with my inner world and started to live life rather than survive it.
When we engage the nuances of our stories, things begin to change.
I never thought I’d be doing this work. To be frank, I avoided my own counseling for years.
I believed the unfortunate lie that asking for help was a sign of weakness. That I could do it on my own and that I didn’t really need help because things were “fine.”
All the while I was hiding, lonely, filled with shame, and spiritually bypassing my way through life.
How I can help.
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Anxiety and stress aren’t bad but a common experience of life. When we develop a better relationship with our anxiety & stress, that’s when symptoms start to improve.
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Let’s call relationships what they are - beautiful and messy. We often play out old patterns and ways of relating in our relationships today, which can lead to all sorts of issues.
Together we will engage those patterns, let go of the patterns that continue to hurt us and others, and develop new patterns that will improve our relationships today.
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Sexual abuse, like other types of abuse, is a spectrum. There is more overt and direct forms of sexual abuse as well as more subtle and indirect forms.
This tragedy can take place in many forms and wreak havoc on ones soul and ability to function in the ways they desire to.
This is a safe space where we can engage those stories of harm, experience healing, and begin to write a new narrative.
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A simplistic definition of abuse is to use or misuse someone or something for ones own gain.
Spiritual communities can be beautiful spaces of healing and hope. AND, they can also be spaces where this type of abuse take place. People can misuse their position and spiritual authority in a way that is very harmful to others.
Thus creating a very confusing, harmful, and disconnecting experience in the persons soul who is on the other end of that experience.
Together, we can sort through this complex dynamic and help you reconnect to yourself, God, and others.
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Depression can feel like a heavy blanket you can’t get out from under. I’ve found that often it has a lot to do with how we respond to, understand, and interact with our depression.
Together, we’ll take a fresh and unique approach to depression and work to get you out from under that heavy blanket.
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If you struggle with an unwanted sexual behavior, you don’t likely need examples of what that is. It’s thing you don’t want to do but keep doing and can’t seem to stop.
Together we can work through this and discover the things that lead to this unwanted behavior. It’s not as simple as just willpowering yourself out of it. If it were, you wouldn’t be reading this and relating to it.
My wife is born and raised here in Nashville which makes me feel like a true local but I’m technically a transplant from Kentucky, having grown up in Illinois before that.
I played football in college and still have a love for sports. I have a greater passion of demystifying the notion that being a man is just being tough, having thick skin (whatever that actually means), performing the best at all times, and not being vulnerable or emotional.
Outside of the therapy office or spending time with my wife and daughter, you would find me doing a whole slew of things. Like writing, playing disc golf, photography, pick up basketball, most likely listening to a podcast, and enjoying the occasional cigar by a bonfire.
A little about me: My Therapeutic Values
01CURIOSITY OVER CRITICISM
IF YOU CAN NAME IT, YOU CAN TAME IT
02THERE IS BEAUTY IN THE MIDST OF PAIN
03HEALING ISN’T LINEAR
04PRESENCE OVER PERFORMANCE MATTERS MOST
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