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YOUR STORY + ENNEAGRAM (personality profiling) + POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Evidenced-based treatments to help you thrive and achieve lasting happiness

"Our expanded awareness enables us to bring more of ourselves and thus more resources to bear on whatever problems or difficulties we may be facing."

Wisdom Of The Enneagram

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INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

For too long psychology has focused almost exclusively on having clients relive past traumatic events in therapy. While telling one's story is vital, it is only part of the therapeutic process. It is more beneficial to focus on your strengths, character, virtues and how you can use these more effectively in your life right now. It is possible to overcome self-defeating thoughts and create a meaning and thriving life.

Our work will delve into five areas:

1. POSITIVE EMOTIONS

Increase the ability to focus on what went well and how to get more of it in your life

2. ENGAGEMENT

Learn to enhance your enjoyment of pleasure

3. POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS

"Other people are the best antidote to the downs of life and the single most reliable up."

- Dr. Martin Seligman

4. MEANINGFULNESS

Independent of "good feelings" meaningfulness is about being part of something larger

than yourself

5. MASTERY/ACHIEVEMENT

Learning to do something well brings a sense of well-being

MARRIAGE/FAMILY THERAPY

Using these same principles but incorporating systems theory (everyone's actions impacts everyone else in the family) I examine the presenting problem and work toward common goals.

Methodology

Enneagram

Being aware of your "number" (1 thru 9) or type brings about a transformative experience whereby you have a sudden and in-depth understanding of your core fears, desires, motivations, stregnths, and weakenesses.

The Enneagram is a deeply personal and transformative system of understanding who you are and why you do what you do. It also gives you a greater understanding of who you are in relation to other personality types.

One of the greatest gifts of the Ennegram is that it provides an opportunity to talk about the positive and negatives aspects of ourselves and others in a neutral space. This neutral territory becomes a safe place to delve into issues involving marriage, parenting, or professional development.

Positive Psychology

Dr. Martin Seligman, one of the original pioneers in Positive Psychology research states, "Since World War II, psychology has focused its efforts on psychological problems and how to remedy them. These efforts have reaped large dividends. Great strides have been made in understanding and treating psychological disorders. Effective treatments now exist for more than a dozen disorders that were once seen as intractable

One consequence of this focus on psychological problems, however, is that psychology has little to say about what makes life most worth living. Positive psychology proposes to correct this imbalance by focusing on strengths as well as weaknesses, on building the best things in life as well as repairing the worst. It asserts that human goodness and excellence is just as authentic as distress and disorder, that life entails more than the undoing of problems."

Contact

MENTAL ARCHITECTS counseling + counsulting

2200 21st Ave South

Suite 305

Nashville, TN 37212

(615) 283-0880

mentalarchitects_gmail.com

About

Reb Buxton, MA,LPC-MHSP Licensed Professional Counselor

FOUNDER'S STATEMENT"Mental Architects combines two of my passions: Entrepreneurship and Psychology. It is a fulfillment of a long-held dream to start my own business.I received my bachelors degree in Banking & Finance and worked in accounting before making a radical life change and moving to Seattle, Washington with my new wife where I received my masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Mars Hill Graduate School. I've persued excellence in the mental health field by receving my license from the State of Tennessee as a Licensed Professional Counselor - Mental Health Service Provider.In addition to my clinical training I co-founded a startup company in the wine industry. I love tennis, reading, documentary films, music, being outdoors. I live in Nashville, TN with my wife and children.I love tennis, reading, documentary films, music, being outdoors. My top 5 Signature Strengths as identified by Positive Psychology are: Curiosity, Love of Learning, Creativity, Open Mindedness, and Persistence. I live in Nashville, TN with my wife and children."

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Consulting

Using scientifically validated, evidenced-based methods, Mental Architects provides professional services in the following categories:

Professional

Psychological

Presentations

1. How To Build A Positive Work Environment2. Benefits of Positive Psychology In Education3. Positive Psychology Overview - simple exercises to increase well- being and create lasting happiness
1. Creating A Business Plan/Executive Summary2. Busines Plan Evaluation3. Positive Psychology & Startup Companies4. Business Concept Evaluation
1. Personality Profiling2. Management Team Building3. Creating A Positive Work Environment & Getting The Best Out Of Your Employees4. The Dirty Little Secrets of Psych Medications
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Professional Fees

Fees are $100/hr for a 50 minute session or $150 for a 90 minute session unless otherwise agreed upon.Information regarding reduced fees is available upon request.I am currently on several insurance panels but I do not bill insurance companies directly. Fees for counseling and/or consulting services are due at the time of service. At the end of your session I will provide you with the appropriate insurance reimbursement form that contains all the necessary information for you to file with your insurance company. They will reimburse you. directly.I accept cash, check, and credit cards. There is an additional $2.50 charge for credit/debit cards.
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REB BUXTON, MA, LPC-MHSPTrustworthy - Candid - Creative - EntrepreneurialLifecare Family Services Program Director Lifecare, Lebanon • Serves as clinical therapist responsible for direct therapeutic care for clients• Oversees 18 employees with responsibilities including all office and clinical services: case management, medication management, psychotherapy, and front office staff• Chairs local Operations Committee which includes Clinical Manager, Team Manager, and Office Manager responsible for monitoring local personnel, financial, and facility needs• Member of Operations & Finance Committee responsible for managing and monitoring agency wide finances including monthly productivity and revenue and expense reports• Serves as the direct report for the Clinical Manager, Office Manager, and Team Manager• Serves as liaison for Community, State, Judicial, and MCO communications• Responsible for creating new revenue streams via implementation of new programs and improvement of existing programs• Responsible for implementation of Progressive Discipline Policy• Collaborate with Regional Director and HR Coordinator on employee training and policy review and implementation• Responsible for hiring and training new employees• Facilitate use of local office budget for operational and discretionary expenditures• Facilitate weekly case review meeting with clinical staff• Train employees on Electronic Health Records (EHR) programs• Construct and analyze EHR program for agency• Maintain HIPAA compliance for agency office• Monitors outcome measures to assess program effectiveness and makes recommendations for improvements• Responsible for monthly reports to company president and CEO.Vintage Graphs LLC Founding Partner/CEO• Co-Inventor of the Vintage Graph• Grand Prize winner of Belmont University Startup Competition FastPitch • Successfully raise two rounds of funding to complete patent process and build website and iPhone application• Responsible for all technology related matters including website design, layout, and workflow, implementation of graph building technology, management of IT team to implement web based business strategy• Responsible for all patent related matters which included writing the non-provisional patent application and ongoing patent management• Responsible for strategic planning, financial management, team managementCenterstone, Nashville, TN Child and Family Clinical Therapist• Clinical therapist in outpatient setting providing individual and group counseling to adolescents and families Child Sex Offender Therapist• Provided case management as well as individual and group counseling to convicted child sex offenders• Provided written psychosexual evaluations by conducting interviews and psychological testing of offendersCompass Health, Edmonds, WA Counseling Internship• Case manager/Clinician in outpatient psychiatric clinic for mental ill adults • Provided one-on-one therapy and supportive counseling to a designated caseloadVanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Accountant• Responsible for Federal and Non-federal grant management/reconciliation• Managed accounts receivable for funding agencies, and special projects for finance departmentThe Buntin Group, Nashville, TN Accountant• Financial responsibilities including payroll, account receivables and payables, public relations account billing, and bank account reconciliationFlood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy, Nashville, TN Account Assistant• Worked with an account manager to provide financial services to clients• Responsible for payroll, accounts payable, and account reconciliation• Served as a corporate/client liaisonEDUCATIONMars Hill Graduate School, Seattle, WAMasters in the Arts of Counseling Psychology (with honors)University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MSBachelor of Science in Business ManagementPROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONSDay Care Training Issues of AbusePresented to childcare workers at Easter Seals McWhorter Family Childrens Center Child Abuse: Detecting, Reporting, and PreventingPresented to parents at Easter Seals McWhorter Family Childrens Center MEMBERSHIPAlignment Nashville is a unique and scalable framework for developing community schools. The mission is to bring community organizations and resources into alignment so that their coordinated support of Nashvilles youth has a positive impact on public school success, childrens health, and the success of our community as a whole.•Member of the Alignments Behavioral Health Committee•Chair of the Resource Guide Sub-CommitteeNasvhille Psychotherapy Instituteview profile: http://tinyurl.com/4ygeke4TRAININGSMetropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County - Division of Grants CoordinationSuccessful Grant Writing I & II Logic ModelPHILANTHROPYNew Life Restoration School & Orphanage in Nairobi, KenyaCreated/Built/Designed website for New Life Restoration in Nairobi, Kenya and launched video and social media campaign to raise funding for school program, water purification projects, womens cottage industry, and orphanage. Integrated Paypal donation system to capture international donations.
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