Abundant Life Christian Counseling Services

Rick & Tammy Nation

Dr. Rickey A. Nation, Ph.D.
and wife, Tammy

EDUCATION
Ordained Minister
Ph.D. Christian Psychology
NCCA, Christian Counselor
NCCA, Pastoral Counselor
NCCA, Temperament Counselor
NCCA, Board Certified Sexual Therapy

Board Certified Clinical Supervisor through the National Board of Christian Clinical Therapists

Dr. Nation has extensive training
through Bethany Divinity College and Seminary in the following:
Addictiveness
Biblical Marriage & Family Counseling
Biblical Reality Counseling
Biblical Depression Counseling
Biblical Crisis Counseling

Dr. Nation received training in Biblical Counseling as part of his seminary education and is licensed by the Church
to the Gospel Ministry. He has been counseling families and individuals
since 1991.

EXPERIENCE
Dr. Nation worked in restaurant management, sales and marketing for a total of 7 years. He also began three different youth ministries in several schools. This experience enabled him to begin Abundant Life Christian Counseling Services and write the unique course, How To Begin A Counseling Ministry
and Take It Higher.

ADVISOR FOR COUNSELING DEPT.
Bethany Divinity College and Seminary

CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR
Satasota Academy Christian Counseling

National Board of Christian Clinical Therspists (Supervisor)

APS Certified

AFFILIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
Nominated Outstanding Young American
Nominated Who's Who In Business
NCCA, Professional Clinical Member
NCCA, License # NA72655

Member, Roane County
Chamber of Commerce since 2006

	As director of a growing and very God-blessed ministry, I want you to know you will not find people who care for you as we do. I suffered and struggled with sixteen years of clinical depression, twenty-one years of struggles with fears, phobias, and anxiety and seven years of wrong financial priorities. God has enabled me to find His freedom in each area of struggle - and you can also! Biblical counseling is a combination of friendship and teaching, guided by God’s principles and His Holy Spirit. It is empowered by His love, with the objective of facilitating another person’s spiritual, emotional, and relational healing and growth. This type of counseling also teaches about the accepting nature of God and His methods of helping us. This accepting nature of God is experienced in the heart as the counselor and counselee pray together for God’s answers to be revealed in the counselee's experience and heart. God bless, Dr. Rickey A. Nation & Wife Tammy Nation

Tammy F. Nation NCCA Pastoral Counselor	George Washington stated, “No one can rightly govern without God and the Bible.” I believe this is also true of counseling. In Christian Counseling we focus on helping individuals allow God’s healing touch in their emotional wounds and learn to live and find purpose through the Scripture. I believe I was placed here to be a Christian Counselor. God has used my unique emotional wounds to reveal to me His healing and freedom. I found purpose in the Scripture. Psalm 41:1-3 describes God’s healing on my life and Genesis 50:20 states how God is using me to minister in this cruel and unfair world. I consider it an honor to counsel as a NCCA Pastoral Counselor and humbled that God allows me to be a part of His healing to individuals, presenting the Gospel and reaching a lost world for Him.


Jackie Moreno NCCA Pastoral Counselor	“And He arose and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still;’ and the wind ceased and there was a great calm.” Mark 4:39 It is my belief that Jesus can and will bring His peace into our hearts and that His touch will soothe the howling winds and the driving rains that overcome us all at times. I believe Jesus heals wounds and speaks His peace into our lives in such real and practical ways that we are amazed at the ‘great calm’ that floods over us. Suffering through years of depression, fear and unresolved grief have given me a heart to see people receive complete healing, not just ‘learn to live with it.’ Jesus is the Great Physician and the Holy Spirit is the Great Counselor. They are willing and able to heal the hurts that hold us bound in chains of hopelessness. When we begin to see the true Love of God, when we begin to understand the freedom we have in Christ, we begin the process of healing that leads to true, lasting change in our lives. This is my prayer for each child of God. Life doesn’t have to be so hard. God has allowed me to minister here at Abundant Life as a Pastoral Counselor. I believe that God’s Truth can help hurting people find their own freedom in Christ. I am honored to serve God in this place.

Testimony of Dr. Nation Overcoming 16 Years of Depression	Letters of Recommendation Bethany Divinity College & Seminary National Conservative Christian Church National Christian Counselors Association Disclaimer: The counselors at Abundant Life Christian Counseling Services are not licensed by the State of Tennessee as a Health Care Provider but does provide Biblical counseling under church authority.

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