About Russell Baxter, LPC-MHSP
Clinical background
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with Mental Health Service Provider designation in Tennessee (LPC-MHSP) and hold an MA in Clinical Counseling. My experience includes residential care, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and outpatient settings, including leadership of a men's partial hospitalization program for mood and personality disorders.
My work draws from modern relational psychodynamic therapy and integrates EMDR, attachment-based therapy, IFS and parts work, ACT, family systems, emotionally focused therapy, and Gottman-informed couples work when useful. I have pursued additional training through IITAP, SAFE EMDR, the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and the Center for Group Studies.
Treatment is collaborative and tailored to the person or couple in front of me. No method is used automatically, and therapy does not promise a particular outcome.
The kind of work I offer
I help clients understand the emotional and relational patterns underneath anxiety, depression, trauma, compulsive sexual behavior, self-worth struggles, and relationship distress. We will pay attention to what is happening in your life now, what shaped it, and what becomes possible when you do not have to manage it alone.
A premium experience without stiffness
Therapy should feel thoughtful, attuned, and clinically sound. It should also feel like you are sitting with a real person. My style is relational, direct when needed, and grounded in training rather than guesswork. There is room for warmth and a little humor, but the work remains purposeful.
Who this practice is for
This is a good fit if you are an adult or couple in Tennessee looking for online therapy that can hold complexity: relationship patterns, trauma, sexuality, shame, mood issues, identity, family history, and the ways people protect themselves when closeness feels risky.
What starting looks like
The first step is a free 20-minute phone consultation. We will talk briefly about what is bringing you in, what kind of support you are looking for, and whether working together feels like the right next step.
People usually come to therapy because something has become hard to keep carrying alone: a relationship pattern, a secret, a symptom, a loss, a transition, or the quiet fear that the same thing keeps happening in different forms. My practice is built for adults, couples, and groups who want more than surface-level support.