Dr. Jeremy Ray

Jeremy Ray is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with over 17 years of counseling experience working with individuals and couples. Jeremy is a compassionate, person-focused therapist who loves helping individuals heal from their developmental and present traumas, mend their fragmented perceptions of self, and find unconditional self-love, self-empathy, safety, and skills for overcoming depression and anxiety. Jeremy believes that every soul is of sacred worth and has profound potential to reach the very best version of themselves. Jeremy is skilled in working with adolescents, adults, and couples to assist them in finding the joy in life they deserve. Jeremy specializes in treating depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, self-esteem, addiction, self-perception, attachment trauma, stress, grief, religious trauma, and adjustment-related disorders. Jeremy completed his Master of Social Work at the University of South Carolina and his Master of Divinity at Ashland University …and Theological Seminary. Jeremy's unique marriage of degrees and experiences has afforded him the opportunity to work with couples and individuals from a multitude of different backgrounds across several disciplines with different views and orientations utilizing a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model for understanding the human experience. Jeremy is experienced in working in behavioral health in-patient and out-patient psychiatric settings in addition to addictions focused settings, hospice care, chaplaincy, bereavement, and various faith-based structures. This multi-tooled experience and approach is key to offering the kind of safe, meaningful, compassionate and inclusive therapeutic environment necessary for self-understanding and change. Jeremy utilizes treatment modalities including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Eclectic Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Somatic-Based Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Solution Focused Therapy. Perhaps the greatest gift is the one wherein we learn to offer ourselves the unconditional love, grace, kindness, and respect we deserve in the midst of the on-going challenges of day to day life. Jeremy is convinced that with the right tools, you will become equipped to manage your symptoms and circumstances and become the very best version of yourself possible. Jeremy will not tell you that it will be easy. But it will be worth it.