Online Stress therapists in Knoxville, Tennessee TN
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Stress
Dr. Aretha Steele (Mindful Healing Counseling)
Psychologist, PsyD
Hey there! If stress is making your days feel overwhelming, know that you're not alone. We specialize in helping teens and adults like you tackle stress and find healthier ways to cope. Together, we can explore the sources of your stress, develop effective strategies to manage it, and create a more balanced and peaceful life. Our sessions provide a safe and supportive space for you to express your thoughts and feelings. Remember, managing stress is a journey, and we're here to guide you every step of the way. Your well-being is important, and we're excited to be part of your journey towards a calmer and happier you.
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17 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Dr Barbara Hall
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Come on in and let's talk! It may be stress and it may not. Let's explore what's going on with you and collaborate to find some solutions.
30 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Patricia McGuire
Counselor/Therapist, LPC-MHSP, NCC
Managing your stress is tailored to your unique needs and is an ongoing, fluid process. Stress is often connected to deep suffering in your life and needs to be approached with self-compassion and kindness.
11 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Charles R. Davenport, Psy.D.
Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Charles R. Davenport provides specialized therapy for individuals dealing with stress. With over two decades of experience, Dr. Davenport understands the profound impact that stress can have on one’s physical and mental health. He utilizes evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help clients manage and reduce their stress levels.
Stress can arise from various sources, including work, relationships, and life changes. Dr. Davenport employs cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients identify and challenge negative thought patterns that contribute to stress. He also incorporates mindfulness practices to promote relaxation and enhance emotional regulation.
Dr. Davenport’s approach is tailored to each client’s unique needs, ensuring personalized care that addresses both the symptoms and underlying causes of stress. By creating a supportive and empathetic therapeutic environment, he empowers clients to develop effective coping strategies and achieve greater resilience.
In addition to in-person sessions, Dr. Davenport offers telehealth services in over 40 states, making it convenient for clients to access high-quality care from the comfort of their own homes. His goal is to help clients achieve a balanced and fulfilling life by effectively managing stress and improving overall well-being.
21 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Emily Stone
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, MDiv, PhD, LMFT-S
Stress: From Constant Pressure to Systemic Calm
Moving Out of Survival Mode and Back into Your Life
Stress is often minimized as a "part of life," but when it becomes chronic, it is a physiological and systemic crisis. It is the feeling of being permanently "on," where the minor inconveniences of life trigger a massive internal overwhelm. In my practice, we don’t just look at your "to-do" list; we look at the systemic and neurological roots of why your body has stayed in a state of high alarm.
The Architecture of Overwhelm
Chronic stress isn't just about having "too much to do"—it is about a nervous system that has lost its way back to safety. Together, we explore:
The Burnout Cycle: Addressing the "adrenal fatigue" and emotional exhaustion that come from living in the "gap" between your resources and your responsibilities.
The "Fawn" & "Freeze" Responses: Understanding how your stress might manifest as people-pleasing (fawning) to keep the peace, or a total shut down (freeze) when things get too heavy.
Demand Avoidance: Identifying how chronic stress can lead to a "rebellious" brain that avoids even simple tasks as a desperate bid for autonomy.
A Clinical Approach to Regulation
With over 20 years of experience, I use a multidimensional framework to help you lower the "baseline" of your stress:
Somatic Regulation: We focus on the "gut-brain axis" work to help your body physically exit the stress response.
IFS-Informed Parts Work: We get curious about the "Manager" parts of you that believe if you stop being stressed, everything will fall apart. We work to build trust so these parts can finally soften.
Systems Theory & Power: We acknowledge the external stressors—social inequity, workplace toxicity, and family dynamics—that are not "in your head," but are real systemic pressures that require boundaries rather than just "coping."
The "Healer's" Burden
I have a specialized focus on the unique stress of therapists, pastors, and medical professionals. When you are the "sturdy container" for everyone else’s crisis, your own system often pays the price in secret. I provide a confidential sanctuary to address the secondary trauma and professional pressure that leads to systemic collapse.
21 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Rachael Keyser, PsyD
Psychologist, PsyD
Stress is a natural part of life, but chronic stress can take a toll on your health and well-being. Through relaxation techniques, time management strategies, and cognitive restructuring, I assist clients in identifying stress triggers and finding effective ways to manage and reduce its impact.
4 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Seth Frank
Marriage and Family Therapist, MMFT, M.Div, AMFT
You might be juggling so much that you barely have time to pause. You are always on, always pushing, and still feeling like it’s not enough. Stress might show up as tension in your body, a mind that won’t quiet down, or a short fuse with the people you care about. Maybe you’re getting through the days, but not really living them. If you’re exhausted from holding it all together and wondering how long you can keep this pace, you’re not alone. It doesn’t have to stay this way. I can help. (Look at my practice details to see more about what it would look like to work together.)
2 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Sharon Davern MSED, LMFT
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed in Minnesota, Tennessee
Stress can raise havoc with many areas of your life. Stress can be addressed by looking at the perspective we have about events and roles in our lives. Combining various physical responses as well as emotional and intellectual responses we can often learn to live an almost stress free life.
37 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Jason Holland
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Chronic stress can affect sleep, mood, focus, and relationships, and it can start to feel like constant background noise. We will identify what is driving the overload and what keeps it stuck. The work often includes boundaries, pacing, and tools for calming the nervous system, along with addressing the expectations and pressures that may be fueling the strain.
25 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Chasity Goddard
Marriage and Family Therapist, AMFT
Chronic stress leads to burnout and can cause emotional and physical issues. I use AAIT to explore and help heal chronic stress so you can find calm and peace.
1 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Jason Herr
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I work with individuals experiencing high levels of stress related to work, relationships, health, and life transitions. With extensive clinical experience treating anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and complex life challenges across community mental health and private practice settings, I incorporate both biological and neurological education to help clients understand how stress impacts the brain and body. Together, we develop practical coping strategies, strengthen emotional regulation, and build resilience so clients can respond to pressure with greater clarity, balance, and confidence.
16 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Unchained Brain LLC
Psychologist, PsyD
Chronic stress can impact emotional health, thinking, and physical well-being. I help individuals manage stress by identifying contributing factors, improving coping strategies, and creating a greater sense of balance, clarity, and control in daily life.
1 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Dr. Amanda Roberts
Psychologist, PhD Clinical Psychology, Masters in Marriage Family Therapy
Unaddressed stress is the basis for most medical and psychological afflictions. Close to 90% of all presentations in primary care physicians' offices are stress-related conditions treatable through outpatient psychotherapy. Dr Roberts will work diligently with you to develop dedicated practices to mitigate unnecessary stress. Through a mix of meditative practices and clinical tools you will learn ways to effectively manage and prevent the accumulation of stress.
41 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
Dr Todd Giardina
Psychologist, PhD, Counseling Psychology
Stress is so prevalent it feels we could also use more help with this issue. But there are some simple shifts, hacks, and behavior changes I can teach you to handle life differently. Some of it is about time management and routine, and a lot of it is about a change in perspective. Seeing tasks as things you GET to do, rather than HAVE to do.
19 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
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Counselor/Therapist, QHHT, RC, SC
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14 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Dr. Lindsay Perrin
Psychologist, Ph.D.
Stress is a normal part of life, but when it becomes chronic or overwhelming, it can affect your mood, relationships, physical health, and overall well-being. Whether you're managing work demands, academic pressures, caregiving responsibilities, or major life transitions, therapy can provide a space to better understand your stress and develop healthier ways of coping.
Drawing primarily from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and other evidence-based approaches, we'll explore the connections between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to identify the patterns that may be contributing to your stress. Together, we'll develop practical strategies to help you feel more balanced, resilient, and equipped to navigate life's challenges with greater confidence.
14 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN (Online Only)
Stress
New Leaf Counseling and Wellness
Psychologist
Addressing stress in therapy involves a proactive and holistic approach aimed at addressing the various physical, emotional, and cognitive components of stress. Through evidence-based techniques such as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), relaxation training, and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), I assist clients in identifying stressors, developing coping strategies, and fostering resilience. By creating a supportive and non-judgmental therapeutic environment, I empower clients to explore underlying causes of stress and implement practical tools to manage it effectively. My specialized expertise enables me to guide clients toward achieving a healthier balance, enhancing overall well-being, and cultivating long-term stress management skills.
25 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Joe Groninga
Psychologist, PsyD, LP
I have been treating stress and anxiety symptoms for many years. Therefore, it's an area in which I have particular experience. You and I will examine the component parts of your symptoms such as emotions, behaviors, and thoughts. We’ll then examine how these parts are connected and how they impact each other. I’ll help you create changes to one or more of these parts to achieve your desired symptom relief. Helping people break free from their anxiety is one of the primary reasons I became a psychologist.
21 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Paigean Jones
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PhD, LCSW, PMH-C, RYT-200
Managing stress is key to maintaining balance and well-being. I help clients identify stressors, develop healthy coping strategies, and restore equilibrium through mindfulness techniques, movement, and therapy. Together, we focus on reducing overwhelm, building resilience, and cultivating a peaceful, grounded approach to life’s challenges.
7 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Stress
Chuck Gray, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Rather than limit counseling to only one approach, I offer my clients what I think is best specifically for them from a wide array of expert approaches in my marriage and other counseling. In addition to leading seminars to train other professionals in marriage counseling, I have benefited by receiving extensive professional training from most of the leading marriage counseling experts in the country, including but not limited to John Gottman, Susan Johnson, John Gray, Harville Hendrix, Virginia Satyr, Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson, Gary Brainard, Frank Pittman, Shirley Glass, Janice Abrahms Spring, and Neil Jacobson. In conducting counseling, I am fortunate to be able to choose from numerous resources including principles from Gottman's research, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Mars & Venus Counseling, Imago Therapy, Positive Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Systems Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Rogerian Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Reality Therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy, Gestalt Techniques, NLP, and EMDR. I also offer counseling tools that I personally developed here in Houston.
39 Years Experience
Online in Knoxville, TN
Knoxville is home to the University of Tennessee — the state's flagship research university — and serves as the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains and Appalachian outdoor recreation culture, giving it a distinctive blend of college-town energy and Appalachian heritage that shapes its therapy community. The city's growing healthcare sector, anchored by UT Medical Center and Covenant Health, provides institutional mental health resources and supplies clinical training to the local community. Knoxville's working-class Appalachian communities carry distinct cultural attitudes toward help-seeking — including strong value on self-reliance and community support — that therapists must navigate with cultural sensitivity. The University of Tennessee's psychology programs, combined with the city's proximity to Appalachian communities experiencing opioid-related crisis, mean addiction recovery and co-occurring trauma are among the most active areas in Knoxville's local therapy landscape.
Stress therapists in Knoxville, Tennessee Statistics
Stress therapists in Knoxville, Tennessee average 16 years of experience and charge around $205 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Stress (100%), Anxiety or Fears (93%), and Depression (81%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$205
Gender ID
| 70% |
Female |
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| 27% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 53% |
In Person and Online |
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| 47% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Stress |
| 93% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 81% | Depression |
| 64% | Self Esteem |
| 59% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 58% | Social Anxiety |
| 56% | Loss or Grief |