Who We Are
Meet Us
Joe McNulty
Ben Phillips
Kristin Russell
Jeff Grossman
Nina Altier
Lindsey Rose
At the outset of counseling, the client normally communicates their desire to work on two main goals, a desire to;
1) better understand themselves and their actions and
2) to improve a meaningful relationship in their life (or possibly several).
Our overarching goal is to help people in a place of pain, when life isn’t working, learn about themselves and heal the relationships they care most about.
At Alinea Counseling, our experienced counseling professionals apply their real-life experience and professional training to help clients achieve the understanding and personal growth they are hoping for. As practitioners, we serve the Brentwood and Nashville areas. Alinea Counseling offers a full range of mental health services that are personalized, current and evidence based, ethical, and most importantly, helpful. Learn more about our staff of attentive and experienced counselors and therapists.
We are dedicated to providing supportive, caring, and compassionate counseling to men, women, couples, young adults, and adolescent boys. We offer sessions for individuals, couples, marriage, Christian, online counseling, and group therapy. We offer counseling help for depression, anxiety, communication struggles, trauma, life transitions, conflict resolution, professional development and more.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman specializes in assisting individuals who are ‘stuck but want to get unstuck,’ marriages that struggle with communication challenges or lack of intimacy, high conflict couples, personality disorders (specifically narcissism and borderline), and group therapy. Jeff also specializes in helping professional men and women or couples that have found previous counseling experiences unhelpful.
Jeff had a first career in retail (long hours, significant pressure to produce sales results) and experienced meaningful personal change in his own counseling work. Jeff believes counseling is a helpful way for people to overcome a specific problem or to create overall emotional growth and healing. He encourages clients to find the right fit for them as they search for a counselor (someone they like, someone they want to spend time with, and someone they think would be helpful in resolving their presenting issue).
“I specialize in helping professional men learn to communicate their feelings, live in relationships with narcissistic traits, and heal attachment wounds. I specialize in helping men and women get unstuck, improve self-value, and refine codependent traits. I specialize in helping couples improve communication, resolve conflict, and regain intimacy.
Together in counseling sessions, we will generate well-defined goals, define and look at resistance, look at past and present relational themes, and understand how each of these effects everyday life. With all of my clients I work on progressive emotional communication, a fancy word that means identifying feeling states and using words to communicate those feelings. My objective is to provide a safe relationship in order for my clients to grow and achieve the goals they desire in their personal relationships and with issues that are troublesome to them.”
Stephen Lockridge
Stephen Lockridge specializes in helping couples work through relationship issues and individuals work through issues of trauma, anxiety, and depression. Stephen has a particular interest in working with people seeking therapy for LGBTQ matters and with those who have experienced spiritual abuse and shame as a result.
Prior to returning to the field of psychology, Stephen had a career in law enforcement working as a police officer in St. Louis city and with the FBI as a special agent and crisis negotiator. While he is proud of his time spent in civil service, he came to terms with the fact that, at his core, he is better suited to be an agent of mercy and healing rather than an agent of justice.
Stephen’s couples’ work is influenced by the work of therapists Esther Perel and Terry Real. He also incorporates aspects of Imago, Gottman, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) into his work with couples based on their unique circumstances. Stephen’s life experience has honed his natural mediation skills which enable him to work well with couples in conflict. He enjoys drawing out the emotions and thoughts that underlie conflict and sees conflict as an opportunity for greater intimacy and connection.
Stephen is trained in EMDR and Brainspotting as well and finds these approaches are effective at healing the wounds of trauma and extracting its effects from our bodies. His law enforcement background helps him understand the realities of complex trauma and he is honored to work with clients who are ready to be free of its lingering impact.
In his practice, he welcomes and affirms people from all religious and/or spiritual backgrounds, as well as the diversity of sexual identities.
Joe McNulty
Joe McNulty is known locally as a talented provider of individual and couples therapy. He helps clients create intimate and healing relationships both within themselves and with those around them.
Prior to entering the counseling field, Joe spent 13 years in ministry. During those years of service, Joe realized that his gifts and passion were fully utilized when he was working personally with individuals around their pain and grief. Joe is skilled at using his gifts to create healing environments where people feel open to dealing with their own struggles. He is passionate about providing care for individuals or couples that are hurt, stuck, or feel lost.
Joe's extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS) gives him a unique ability to help couples that find themselves stuck in a loop of disconnection and seem unable to find their way back to the center. For Joe, it is a privilege to walk with a couple that may feel discouraged and frustrated and watch them grow in intimacy and knowledge of new ways to connect, repair, heal, and dream new dreams together.
Whether you are a couple who is dealing with marital challenges, or an individual dealing with anxiety, depression, ADD/ADHD, trauma, Joe’s training, and experience can help support you through a process of healing and recovery.
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” This is Joe’s favorite quote by Mary Oliver.
Nina Altier
Nina works with men, women, and teens to process their concerns and improve their ability to regulate emotions, communicate effectively, and regain hope during challenging times. She offers a non-judgmental space for clients to discuss thoughts or experiences that may evoke feelings of shame, anxiety, or sadness, helping them navigate through life's ups and downs with greater resilience.
Nina practices therapy from a client-centered approach while incorporating techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy. This blend of flexibility and structure allows her to meet the unique needs of each individual. She values the importance of the therapeutic relationship above all else, believing that safety and trust are the foundations of healing.
After experiencing the transformative impact of therapy in her own life, Nina felt called to help others in the same way. She has deep compassion for those who are persistently single but wish to be in a relationship, struggle to maintain healthy connections with their partners, or feel the lingering impact of absent parents in their lives. Her commitment is to support and empower clients, helping them to achieve meaningful change.
Ben Phillips
Ben Phillips enjoys working with individuals and couples who are feeling stuck and overwhelmed. Ben helps people affected by co-dependency who are feeling disconnected and are struggling to feel connected in their relationships. Often these issues stem from childhood trauma or family of origin dysfunction. Ben draws from his experience in 12-step recovery, attachment theory, systems theory and other evidence based psychological frameworks for treating mental health issues and symptoms. Ben is a trauma-informed therapist who enjoys helping people find their true authentic self. For the past 20+ years he’s been working in the music business. His recovery journey brought him to the place of not only continuing his own personal growth but also led him to wanting to help others discover their own transformative healing journey.
Ben did his undergraduate studies at Belmont University where he received a bachelor's degree in business administration. In addition, Ben has a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Belmont University and is in supervision working towards licensure in Marriage Family Therapy.
Holly Mills
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615-308-6318
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