Please take a moment to look through our articles. These are tools to give you insight and inform you. A solid foundation of any relationship is built on knowledge and ability to keep an open mind.
"Building Successful Families"
-Kent Brand
CAN A CHILD WITH ADHD FOCUS?
In Kindergarten Michael Phelps could not sit still. In Elementary School one teacher told Michael Phelps’s mother, “Your son will never be able to focus on anything.” Later, a doctor put Michael on Ritalin for hyperactivity. Two years later Michael asked to not take Ritalin anymore. His request was granted. Now the whole world knows that Michael Phelps can focus. Click Here to Read More
CLIMBING MY MOUNTAIN
After 10 appointments and one year and nine months, The Winner has chosen to write this testimonial so his life can help others. . Click Here to Read More
DEPRESSION STATISTICS
Depressive disorders affect approximately 18.8 million American adults or about 9.5% of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. This includes major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder. Click Here to Read More
“The Best is Yet to Come”
When God created the world, He saved the best for last—WOMAN!! Click here to read more.
Awesome Dreams
Suffering families do not need to give up hope even though their problems seem insurmountable. Click here to read more
The Super Shrink
What makes the most effective therapists ten times better than the worst counselors? Surprisingly, it is not the approach. Click here to read more
Bringing Back the Beauty
In the beginning life was grand
We walked joyfully with God. Click here to read more
Failure Is Not Fatal
“Giving hope” to families in distress is an absolutely vital part of the family therapist’s goals for the first therapy session. Many families coming for therapy have come to accept failure in their family as the norm. Click here to read more
FEARLESS
The Nurtured Heart Approach is fearless in teaching parents to stay cool, calm and collected. It’s a big leap for parents to begin to celebrate their child’s success in a heart-centered way. Click here to read more
FROM DRUGS TO DEDICATION
How many other lives are wasting away in drugs and alcohol, but longing for a purpose and direction beyond themselves? Click here to read more
LIFE CHANGING THERAPY FOR CHILDREN
Thousands of children worldwide who previously had been given up on-----have been transformed. Click here to read more
ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY FOR ‘A FAMILY
MATTER’
In the first year I was privileged to see and offer hope to forty marriages, eleven individuals suffering from depression, anxiety or panic attacks, and eighty one families experiencing difficulties with their children. Click here to read more
RELATIONSHIP
A strong Christian therapist can build a powerful relationship with a client which will in turn produce magnificent changes in the family. Click here to read more
SPEAK FOR THE CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
Research shows that except in very extreme conflict-ridden families–and most families do not fit this criterion–children are better off when their parents stay married. Click here to read more
THE DIFFICULT CHILD
One of the most challenging family matters is the difficult child. Parents spend sleepless nights worrying about the child who is difficult and often find no answers in spite of the 55,000 books on parenting. Click here to read more
TRANSFORMING THE DIFFICULT CHILD
“We had lost hope. This approach saved our family. We were spinning our wheels. Everything we tried in the past was making problems worse. Now our intense child is intensely wonderful...without medications.” Click here to read more
THE POWER OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Beliefs like “I am worthless” can be radically changed through therapy to “I am special.” Click here to read more
Two Year ANNIVERSARY
Since the beginning of A FAMILY MATTER 322 different families have been served which includes approximately 1,000 individuals. Click here to read more
Three Year ANNIVERSARY
“Where the family matters and lives are transformed” was the motto of A FAMILY MATTER in the beginning of the practice. Now three years later we see that this motto has truly been successful. Click here to read more
Weakness to Strengths.
Some of the greatest people of history overcame weaknesses and today we think of their strengths and not their weaknesses. Beethoven was blind and could have settled for being a shopkeeper, but overcame his weaknesses and became one of the greatest composers of all time. Michael Jordan could have quit when he was cut from his basketball team in high school. The Wright brothers could have given into the shame of family problems and settled for a mediocre life, but instead they pioneered the first airplane flight. Click here to read more
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A FAMILY MATTER provides marriage counseling, marriage therapy for couples, children’s counseling, anger counseling, depression psychotherapy, divorce counseling for couples, and Christian family counseling.
Our clinic serves the online community, as well as communities in North West and North Central
Alabama, North East Mississippi, and South Central Tennessee including: Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Sheffield, Lexington, Rogersville, Cherokee, Russellville, Athens, Madison, Decatur, Huntsville, Red Bay, Killen, Leighton, Phil Campbell, Iuka, Corinth, Belmont, Booneville, Tupelo, Lawrenceburg, Savannah, Collinwood, Loretto, and Waynesboro: 35630, 35633, 35634, 35677, 35661, 35674, 35660, 35648, 35610, 35653, 35585, 35654, 35581, 35582, 35593, 38847, 35645, 35646, 35616, 35653, 35652, 35648, 35611, 35612, 35758, 35601, 35602, 35603, 35813, 35801, 35814, 35804, 35815, 35810, 35804, 35824, 35807, 35808, 35812, 35807, 38464, 38372, 38450, 38469, 38485, 38852, 38834, 38835, 38827,38829,38801, 38802.
We provide marriage counseling, marriage therapy, psychotherapy for individuals and therapy for children. For an appointment with a marriage counselor or family therapist contact us at 256-766-5707 or
kent@afamilymatter.com.Call us today, and let us help your Marriage and your Family!
(256) 766-5707
