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21 years serving & honoring God
NCCA
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
NCCA, Professional Clinical Member
NCCA, License # NA72655
2011 Temperament Award Recepient
Nominated Outstanding Young American
Nominated Who's Who In Business
Nominated Biltmore's Who's Who 2010
Member, Roane County
Chamber of Commerce since 2006

 

 

Rick & Tammy Nation

 

 

 


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 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.

 

 

Bob and Gwen Wendt

Marriage Mentoring Couple

 

 

 

A marriage mentoring couple uses their life experiences to support and strengthen other couple’s marriages by:

  • Listening to you – as a “vent”, as a “sounding board” to help you get your thoughts and feelings into appropriate focus and be able to deal with them
  • Encourage you – sharing how God has worked through their experiences and what His word says about individual and couple issues
  • Praying with you – leading the individuals and the couple to pray for each other and the needs in their family
  • Praying for you – intercede as needed for the individual/couple and their needs
  • Holding you accountable – for any changes for which you desire accountability

A mentoring couple can help strengthen a marriage.  However, they are not a substitute for professional counseling in marriages with major problems and issues.

Bob and Gwen Wendt would like to become a mentoring couple.   They accepted Jesus in 1974 and have found Him to be the source of healing and restoration, as well as peace and happiness.

They have lived in Oak Ridge, TN since 1979 and have five grown children, and six grandchildren.  They have been married for 44 years.

Gwen has been a homemaker, a home school teacher, and has tutored elementary children in reading at an Oak Ridge school.  She is a member of a weekly Bible study and has been involved in various children’s ministries over the years at their churches.

Bob was a research architect at Oak Ridge National Lab (retired in 2008). After retirement he worked on developing a medical clinic that could be built in undeveloped nations, and has pursued an ongoing hobby of model trains as well as several major home improvement projects.

Both Bob and Gwen have been involved in an intercessory prayer group with a focus on praying for the nation, the church, and for transformational revival.  They have also prayed for family and friends and have seen God move in the lives of other. 

Their marriage is far from perfect and remains a work in progress.  Differences of how to raise children, deal with finances and household improvements, pornography, and particularly communication styles and sharing feelings have been big challenges for them.  Coupled with these are significant differences in personality, interests, spiritual gifting, and both having been raised in “dysfunctional homes”.   In short, they have had most all of the ingredients needed to destroy their marriage.   However, with time, counseling, prayer and a willingness to change their marriage has endured and improved.   They have the desire to help strengthen other marriages and keep them “on track” to being successful.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 


Free Indeed

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 Health Care Providers but do provide Biblical counseling under church authority.

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 



 


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