About Edward
Dr. Edward Varner helps people who are facing relationship struggles, mood problems, trauma, or questions about identity. He brings three decades of clinical work to sessions and aims to create a direct, respectful space for honest conversation.
Clients typically come with depression, anxiety, bipolar concerns, or stress from major life changes. He also supports those coping with grief, parenting strain, body image worries, and issues linked to sexual identity or alternative sex culture.
How Edward works
Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. His background is in licensed professional counseling with the credential LPC-MHSP. That experience includes work with trauma, addictions, and complex emotional patterns such as codependency and dissociation.
He uses several approaches so the work can fit each person’s needs. In a session he listens first and then helps people pick tools they can use right away. That might include learning new communication habits, managing intense emotions, or practicing different ways to respond to anxious or depressive thoughts.
He blends short-term skills with deeper exploration when it helps. People who choose him often want straightforward guidance and steady support through hard transitions. He offers sessions in English and Japanese and works with clients from Tennessee and beyond.
New clients start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session based on availability.
Edward lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Edward works with
The areas below are the ones Edward selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC-MHSP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people name their values and take small committed steps toward them while learning to live with difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy examines relationship patterns that formed early in life and helps people try new ways of connecting and responding in close relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and struggles and recommend which methods to try first. Over time the plan can shift based on what proves useful and what you prefer during sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let you see facial cues and use visual tools. Phone work can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits your day. Text and live chat make it simple to keep momentum between meetings and to share quick updates or practice new skills in writing.
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