Ted Mattis

Ted is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in TN and MS. For the past 27 years Ted has worked with individuals, couples and families within the clinical context and in the ministry context as a pastor. He graduated from Georgia State University with Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Mental Health. He earned his Master’s Degrees in Marriage & Family Therapy from Reformed Theological Seminary in 1997 and his Master of Divinity in 1999. In the past, after serving as a Marriage and Family pastor at several large congregations around the southeast, Ted has served as the West TN rep for TNPAP for impaired medical professionals, TLAP, West TN rep for impaired legal professionals as well as worked with local churches and ministries. He practiced at Heartlife Professional in Memphis, TN for the past 12 years until opening his own practice. Ted specializes in treating couples in crisis, addiction (substance and sexual), addictive family systems, affair recovery, divorce recovery, as well as working in a broader context with people struggling with depression, anxiety and other mood disorders. He also has extensive experience working with preventative and pre-marital preparation, and marital enrichment. Ted is a trained SYMBIS facilitator for pre-marital preparation. He offers individual, couple and family counseling and as well as marital intensives. Ted is the husband of an amazing wife, father of four wonderful children and grandfather to five beautiful grandchildren. He is a long-time friend of Bill W., loves playing music, traveling, photography, golf, woodworking, and backpacking into the wilderness with his dog, Jack.