FOOTPRINTS COUNSELing
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Joseph B. Alexander, LMFT
Work Experience: Footprints Counseling is a private counseling practice opened by Joseph B. Alexander, LMFT in January 2014. Joseph is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (L-MFT) and has training as a pastoral counselor also. Before starting his own private practice, Joseph was a counselor at CareNet Counseling in Winston-Salem and Mount Airy (2009-2014). Prior to this, he served in Clinical Chaplain positions in a hospital in Mount Airy (2003-2009), and a nursing home setting in Southern Pines (1995-1999).
Education: Joseph holds the following degrees: Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Appalachian State University 2002; Master of Divinity (MDiv.) in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1993; and He received Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Human Services) from Wingate University, 1990. Joseph was licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in NC in July 2007. Joseph was ordained for ministry in March 1993.
Other Education:
Joseph also served in a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) residency training at UNC Hospitals (1994-1995). While he served in this very intense professional and personal experience, he gained invaluable experience with medical trauma and illness with adult and pediatric patients in the areas of cardiology, medical surgery, neurology, and neurosurgery. During the end of his Divinity school and while in the Triangle, he experienced several personal losses in his family, including the loss of a love relationship that helped to form his future career and ministry. He understands personal loss and depression and having to move forward.
Joseph was theologically trained and can explore spiritual issues and crises as a pastoral counselor. Joseph has a particular interest in working with couples and families, as well as working with issues with grief and boundaries. He has been married for over 20 years and is the father of two.
The Footprints Counseling Office
