Experienced, spiritually sensitive counseling
Perry Sanderford, PhD, LPC, BC-TMH
Calm guidance for personal, relational, and spiritual healing.
Personal struggles, relationship pain, trauma, or uncertainty about your direction can make life feel smaller and harder than it should. Perry brings more than 35 years of counseling experience to help clients gain useful insight, make practical changes, and move toward greater wholeness.
Perry is not accepting new clients at this time.
- Best fit
- Marriage and family relationships, personal mental health, spiritual guidance, vocational concerns, and trauma healing
- Experience
- More than 35 years providing counseling and 30 years leading Crossroads Counseling Center
- Services
- Personal, relational, spiritual, and vocational counseling
- Format
- Contact Stillwaters to confirm current availability and session options
- Faith
- Spiritually sensitive counseling shaped by a Christian worldview
Insight matters most when it leads to a different way of living.
You may know that something in your life or relationships needs attention but feel unsure where to begin. Perhaps the same conflict keeps returning, a past wound still shapes the present, or an important decision has left you without peace.
Perry offers a calm, safe environment for honest reflection and practical change. His aim is to help clients understand what is happening beneath the surface and translate that understanding into choices that strengthen personal and relational health.
Seasoned care that respects the whole person
Perry's work is professionally grounded and spiritually sensitive. He brings decades of experience in counseling, church leadership, consultation, and teaching to concerns that may involve emotional health, marriage and family relationships, vocation, trauma, or faith.
Clients can expect thoughtful questions, meaningful insight, and a focus on behavior change that can improve everyday life. The goal is not simply to revisit the problem, but to develop a clearer and more hopeful way forward.
Areas of focus
- Marriage and family relationships
- Pastoral counseling and ministry related concerns
- Personal mental and emotional health
- Spiritual guidance and questions of faith
- Trauma healing and major life challenges
- Vocational consultation and life direction
What you can work toward
- Understand the deeper issue beneath a recurring struggle
- Make practical changes that improve daily life
- Strengthen communication and relational health
- Approach trauma with greater safety and hope
- Clarify spiritual or vocational direction
- Move forward with a stronger sense of purpose
What therapy with Perry is like
Perry provides compassionate, insight oriented counseling that is spiritually sensitive and directed toward practical change. His work draws on more than 35 years of professional counseling, leadership, consultation, and teaching experience.
A simple way to begin
1. Reach out
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 Perry
Perry founded and directed Crossroads Counseling Center for 30 years and has served as a consultant and conference leader for faith based organizations. Perry and his wife have been married for more than four decades and have one adult daughter.
Education, credentials, and specialized training
- Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and Counseling, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
- Master of Divinity, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
- Licensed Professional Counselor in Mississippi
- Board Certified Telemental Health Counselor
- Founder, director, and staff counselor of Crossroads Counseling Center for 30 years
- Charter member of the American Association of Christian Counselors
- Affiliated with the National Board for Certified Counselors
Faith and counseling
Perry's counseling is spiritually sensitive and grounded in a Christian worldview. Clients seeking explicit faith integration should discuss their preferences and goals at the beginning of care.