Inner Solutions
"Be Transformed by the Renewing of your Mind"
Providing Compassionate Christian Counseling to Hurting Families
Biographical Information
Dr. Richard Parsons is a Licensed Professional Counselor who earned a M.A. and Ed.D in counseling psychology from Argosy University, with post-graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University. He received an additonal year of training at the Washington School of Psychiatry in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Dr. Parsons has a certificate in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual addiction. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of personal, professional, academic, and spiritual development. The passion of his life's work has been to make a difference in people's lives by helping them discover and release their inner potential for greater success in every dimension of life. The focus of his counseling work is to offer his clients a genuine relationship of acceptance, understanding, and non-judgment during a difficult time in their lives.
As a trained and experienced mental health professional, Dr. Parsons incorporates the science of psychology and Christian values into his counseling work with couples, adolescents, and adults. Many psychological approaches to counseling tend to utilize humanistic and new age techniques. Dr. Parsons' approach to the counseling relationship is to integrate his professional training and Christian worldview. The core mission of his work is to help people discover who they are in Christ and the meaning of being a new person in Him.
Dr. Parsons has experience working with couples, families, and individuals with a wide array of emotional, behavioral, and spiritual struggles such as anxiety disorders, depression, stress, grief and loss, trauma, self-esteem, sexual addiction, anger management, sexual and physical abuse, marital and other relationship struggles.
He is passionate about walking with his clients as they discover deeper dimensions of God's healing love, grace, and mercy through Jesus Christ, which can bring love, joy, and peace into troubled lives and relationships.
Dr. Parsons is also a trained personal and professional coach who received training through the Coaches Training Institute and Wellcoaches, Inc. He enjoys working with clients who are struggling with setting and reaching their personal goals in life. Self-limited beliefs often keep people stuck in a cycle of defeat. Coaching can be a resource for transformational change that can unlock one's inner potential for achieving a greater sense of well-being.
As a trained and experienced mental health professional, Dr. Parsons incorporates the science of psychology and Christian values into his counseling work with couples, adolescents, and adults. Many psychological approaches to counseling tend to utilize humanistic and new age techniques. Dr. Parsons' approach to the counseling relationship is to integrate his professional training and Christian worldview. The core mission of his work is to help people discover who they are in Christ and the meaning of being a new person in Him.
Dr. Parsons has experience working with couples, families, and individuals with a wide array of emotional, behavioral, and spiritual struggles such as anxiety disorders, depression, stress, grief and loss, trauma, self-esteem, sexual addiction, anger management, sexual and physical abuse, marital and other relationship struggles.
He is passionate about walking with his clients as they discover deeper dimensions of God's healing love, grace, and mercy through Jesus Christ, which can bring love, joy, and peace into troubled lives and relationships.
Dr. Parsons is also a trained personal and professional coach who received training through the Coaches Training Institute and Wellcoaches, Inc. He enjoys working with clients who are struggling with setting and reaching their personal goals in life. Self-limited beliefs often keep people stuck in a cycle of defeat. Coaching can be a resource for transformational change that can unlock one's inner potential for achieving a greater sense of well-being.
"Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward step."
-Dorothy Corkville Briggs
- Henry Ford
"Now unto Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond that we ask or think, according to the power than works within us."
- Ephesians 3:20
