Personal  and Professional info  

Tim is a psychologist, currently in  private practice.  He moved to Hickory, NC  in December of 2009 with  his wife, Anita.  They moved there to be close to family (they have 6 grandkids), and to enjoy the beauty of God’s creation in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mts.  Tim has been in counseling practice since 1974, and has been a therapist in a variety of different settings in the US and across the world.  Tim has a strong interest in the integration of Biblical truth with the practice of psychology. He went to a doctoral program that had the distinctive of being a seed-bed of integrative thinking. In his counseling he utilizes various appropriate therapies, and weaves the timeless truths of the Scriptures with those practices. 

 

Tim has been a therapist, teacher, missionary, and supervisor. He developed a family practice in Bend, Oregon and helped start a counseling and growth center in Pennsylvania for pastors and missionaries. In addition to teaching at Biola College and Oregon State University, he was a professor of Psychology and Social Work at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York, where he taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

 

Tim and Anita became full-time supported missionaries in 2004 and joined the counseling department of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and then served with Barnabas International, a pastoral counseling and support organization for missionaries and their families. They were global counselors and traveled to Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin and South America. This gave Tim the opportunity to do a variety of exciting service opportunities, things like leading marriage retreats in Afghanistan, psychological assessments for children in Pakistan, post-earthquake counseling in Sichuan, China, and counseling the victims of the World Trade Center disaster in New York.  He loves having the opportunity to  alongside cross-cultural workers who are out on the front lines.  He currently does clinical assessments for missionaries-in-candidacy.

 

He believes that God takes the painful and traumatic experiences of our life and transforms them into growth and wholeness (creates beauty from the ashes).