Alissa Anderson, LMFT
Founder of Still Waters Counseling Services, Alissa has spent over the past twenty years working in various capacities with local nonprofits and counseling organizations in the Nashville area. She obtained her masters and Tennessee State license in Marriage and Family Therapy, practicing for several years privately before joining the team at Restore Ministries, where she enjoyed facilitating groups, teaching, training, supervising graduate-level interns and practicing as the staff Marriage and Family Therapist with their counseling center for nearly seven years.
At Still Waters Counseling Services, Alissa sees individuals, couples and families and specializes in life transition/adjustment issues, issues associated with adolescence, complex trauma (utilizing the EMDR protocol in addition to other traditional therapeutic strategies and interventions), grief and loss, marital, divorce adjustment, addiction/recovery, parenting, and women’s issues. Alissa is also an American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Approved Supervisor (supervising post-masters license applicants in the state of Tennessee) as well as a Clinical Fellow with the association. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family – volunteering with her children’s schools and fine arts programs and also at church.
Alissa’s focus is on hope and health through a wholistic approach (mind, body and spirit).