Troy McKinney

Introduction

I'm a licensed psychotherapist who works with a wide variety of people who are in difficult and challenging spots in their lives and desire to move into a more vital and meaningful life direction. I partner with my clients to examine their mind and relationships in order to help better understand the potential problem and identify change agents for positive solutions. My main tools are my words, conversation, and the therapeutic relationship. I exercise my craft as both a scholar and a consumer. I began my journey as a therapist in 2016 only after I had experienced the healing impacts of therapy myself. My work is grounded is both scientific evidence and literature, as well as a humanistic and experiential understanding.

Focuses and Competancies

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Self confidence and self esteem

• Trauma and traumatic stress

• Substance use and addiction

• Relationship difficulties

• Life transition and existential issues

• Parenting and family challenges

• Focus and attention

• Survivors of abuse

• Spirituality questions

• Rebuilding identity

• Men's issues

• LGBTQIA+ affirming

• BIPOC friendly

• And much more...

Education

Master of Arts (MA),

Marriage and Family Therapy

Northcentral University

January 2016 to March 2020

Bachelor of Arts (BA),

Sociology

Point Loma Nazarene University

September 2007 to May 2011

Associations

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences (ACBS)

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

– Viktor Frankl