I have led a rich and diverse life and bring much life-experience and many years of post-graduate study in mental health, social sciences, & medicine.  I performed with a well-known psychodrama group in Europe, where I lived for four years.  I grew up in NYC and have lived in rural KY for many years.

I have taught at the college and graduate level for the last three years in counseling and the social sciences and use my professional skills to counsel and advise my students and offer them career counseling.  I currently teach sociology and social problems at Nashville State Community College, and understand how the stressors of our uncertain times affects all of us

I currently work, pro bono, with seniors weekly at several venues, using group play and music therapy and individual counseling, and understand full well the problems of the aging and infirm, and the impact of illness and death on their families.

 I also currently run a successful drug and alcohol rehabilitation program and administer individual psychotherapy at a local jail, and previously worked in a youth facility.  I have been nominated for KY Volunteer of the Year for 2009.

I have been a professional studio musician, writer and producer, in my own professional studio, and have worked in all styles, and am a keen listener.   I speak French fluently.

I have been a substitute teacher (K-12), a social service worker, a sociology researcher, a restaurant owner, a chef, a farmer, an organic gardener, and an animal lover and horse rider.

My graduate practicum involved working with children, and my internship was with a community mental health facility where my supervisors were an MD psychiatrist, and well-known clinical psychologist.  I worked with  the full range of issues from relationship problems to mood disorders to schizophrenia.

I am the father of three wonderful children and am a recent grandfather.  (That is Isabella and her companion with me in the picture).  My clients and friends find me warm, accessible, and wise, and tell me that I make their lives better by talking with and by guiding them.  Chances are, I can help you too.

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ELLIOTT SEWELL

LICENSED PROFESSIONAL CLINICAL COUNSELOR
NATIONAL CERTIFIED COUNSELOR