
About Scott

Bio
I grew up in Eastern Virginia before migrating to the Roanoke Valley after I graduated from high school. After a attending a series of colleges (probably a record somewhere), I finally settled at Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee, majored in religious studies and spent the next few years trying to figure out what I was supposed to do with my life. Although becoming a Spy or a Secret Service Agent were briefly considered, I decided helping people fit me best. I worked in many levels and roles in human services before becoming a psychotherapist. Along the way I earned a MS in Human Services and a MA in Marriage and Family Therapy. I have seen people at their best and their worst and gained a monumental amount of appreciation for my greatest teachers- my clients.
Most important of all, I have been married to my wonderful wife, a community banker, for 23 years. We have two amazing kids: a 21-year-old Architecture Design college student daughter and an 11-year-old theatre kid son. They keep me in check- always! We also are the proud family to an attention seeking yet loving and gently english cream golden retriever named "Queenie" ( short for Queen Beatrice I). Regal indeed!
A Bit More.....
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I love England- I have only been there once- a week long solo pilgrimage & I long to return!
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I'm a passionate yet frustrated lover of books and reading (squirrel!)- especially British murder mysteries, fantasy, biographies, history, poetry and spirituality.
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Influences on my own life and work: Fred Rogers (Mr. Roger's Neighborhood), Henri Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Ronald Knox, Dorothy Day, Frederick Buechner, Murray Bowen, Milton Erickson, M. Scott Peck, Victor Frankl, and many, many others........