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Dr. Katherine Wilson Blackney
Clinical Director
Katherine Wilson Blackney is a licensed professional counselor, mental health service provider and psychologist. She earned a Bachelor of Science in special education with a double major in human organizational development from Vanderbilt University. She then received her master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss., and earned her Ph.D. from The University of Memphis in counseling psychology.
Katherine has worked at Tennessee Baptist Children’s home providing therapeutic care to children and parents, The Exchange Club of Memphis leading groups for children involved in domestic violence and The Transformation Center for Women, a specialty program for women with eating disorders, leading groups and providing individual and family therapy. She has administered neurological and psychological assessments at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and provided intake assessments and individual therapy at the Church Health Center. She also conducted individual and group therapy sessions with homeless and low-income, at-risk adolescents utilizing art and play therapy at Akiba School and Huruma Children’s Orphanage in Kenya.
This past year she worked at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte providing individual and couples counseling to a diverse caseload of university students. She conducted intake interviews and wrote intake reports with diagnostic impressions, as well as co-led an interpersonal process psychotherapy group and structured groups on dialectical behavioral therapy/mindfulness and body image/eating issues.
Katherine enjoys being with God’s creations and seeing Him graciously intervene in a way that is molded according to His design and intent. She is grateful for the experiences that have led her to develop a sincere passion for counseling. Her ambition is to continuously develop her counseling skills so that she can act as Christ’s hands and feet when caring for those who are wounded, distraught or in pain.
Katherine’s life verses are:
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For our light momentary afflictions are achieving for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison. So we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporary, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word."
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
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