Counseling for adults, couples, families, and difficult seasons
John Stevens, MA, LPC-S, BC-TMH
Wisdom for hard seasons and practical help for what comes next.
A marriage in crisis, a painful loss, trauma, addiction, or questions about God can unsettle every part of life. John brings decades of pastoral and counseling experience, a sense of humor, and evidence-based tools to help you face what is happening and live more consistently with what matters to you.
- Best fit
- Adults and couples facing spiritual concerns, relationship crisis, parenting, trauma, grief, sexual concerns, and major life decisions
- Ages
- Adolescents 10+, adults, and older adults, with an especially strong fit for clients 30+
- Services
- Individual, couples, family
- Format
- In person in Ridgeland and telehealth across Mississippi
- Faith
- Christian integration and spiritual direction are available
Some seasons test everything you thought you knew.
You may be trying to hold a family together, make sense of suffering, break an addictive pattern, or decide what faithfulness looks like in a complicated situation. Advice from friends may help for a moment, but the underlying issue remains.
John understands both the spiritual and practical weight of these seasons. After more than 20 years as a senior pastor and many years as a professional counselor, he is comfortable with difficult questions and does not need clients to clean up their story before bringing it into the room.
Experience, challenge, and a sense of humor
John helps clients look beneath behavior to the beliefs, wounds, needs, and values driving it. Sessions are laid back and human, but they are also purposeful. He uses humor to create room to breathe while still challenging clients to make honest, values aligned changes.
His work may draw from EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Gottman Method couples work, and solution focused interventions. The approach is shaped around the problem, the relationship, and the goals you bring.
Areas of focus
- Addiction, pornography, sexual concerns, and shame
- Couples in crisis, communication, betrayal, and intimacy concerns
- Life transitions, money and financial stress, and decision making
- Premarital counseling, parenting, and family relationships
- Spiritual concerns, questions about God, and ministry related stress
- Trauma, grief, medical trauma, and first responder stress
What you can work toward
- Clarify the values that should guide your next decision
- Interrupt patterns that keep creating the same pain
- Communicate more honestly and repair relationship injuries
- Process trauma or grief with greater steadiness
- Bring faith and emotional health into a more integrated life
- Move through trouble with practical tools and renewed hope
What therapy with John is like
John uses an integrative, values focused approach that may include EMDR, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Gottman Method couples work, and solution focused strategies. He combines clinical training with pastoral insight while keeping therapy practical and current.
A simple way to begin
1. Reach out
Choose Request an Appointment with John, or call 601-707-5550. Our team will listen and help confirm the fit.
2. Meet your therapist
Share what is happening, ask questions, and identify what you want to change.
3. Move forward together
Build a plan, practice useful skills, and adjust the work as you grow.
About John
John brings warmth, humor, and lived experience to therapy. He holds a master's degree in marriage and family counseling and a PhD in New Testament and Theology. The doctorate adds theological depth when clients want to explore faith or spiritual questions; his counseling license and clinical training ground his therapeutic work. John and his wife have been married for almost 50 years. They have two adult children and four grandsons. He continues advanced clinical training.
Education, credentials, and specialized training
- Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor
- PhD in New Testament and Theology
- Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counseling, Reformed Theological Seminary
- Master of Divinity, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
- EMDR training, including advanced and intensive applications
- Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy training
- PREPARE/ENRICH premarital counseling facilitator
- Advanced training with the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists
Faith and counseling
John welcomes clients who want Christian faith to be an active part of counseling, including those working through spiritual questions or ministry related concerns. The level and form of faith integration should be discussed as part of the client's goals.
Take the next step
Ready to see if John is the right fit? Choose Request an Appointment with John, or call 601-707-5550.
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