Individual and Family Counseling
Smith County Insider welcomes John Dixon, LPC-MHSP to the community. Dixon will provide mental health counseling services (In-person and Telehealth) to individuals (children, adolescents, and adults) and families, focusing on a wide-range of struggles.
Business Overview:
- Business Name: John Dixon, LPC-MHSP
- Location: 132 Third Ave W., Carthage, TN 37030
- Hours of Operation: In-Office: Tuesdays and Thursdays 8-5 (By appointment)
Telehealth: Tuesday – Saturday 8-5 (By appointment) - Contact: (615) 552-1954
- Website:http://www.johndixonlpc.com
- Email: jmdixon.lpc.mhsp@gmail.com
- Phone: (615) 552-1954
Dixon specializes working with adolescents, addiction, and relationship issues, particularly within the family dynamic. He uses a number of trauma-informed, evidenced-based counseling techniques. He also offers a variety of formal assessments in the areas of mood/emotional disturbance, behavior breakdowns, and substance use.
A standard therapy appointment is 45-50 minutes, but 30-minute and 90-minute appointments are also available. Appointments are held between the therapist, the client, and/or others involved in the client’s treatment. Sessions and treatment goals are individualized and unique based on the client’s identified goals and struggles.
He has been counseling since 2014 and in private practice for 3 years. Dixon shared that he “wanted to own his own counseling practice and decided to open a practice in Carthage due to the limited access many small towns have to counseling and mental health services, despite the ever-growing need.” He recognized his love for connecting with and trying to help people early on in life and became truly aware of and started researching the counseling profession as a senior in high school.
Dixon graduated Smith County High School in 2004 and attended Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology in 2008 and obtained his first mental health job working as a resident counselor in a group home for teenage males aged approximately 11-14. After some time, he transitioned to an Intensive In-Home Counseling position, going into homes where the child-parent dynamic had become disrupted, sometimes severely. It was during this time that Dixon was accepted into a master’s program for Professional Mental Health Counseling at MTSU. While working towards his Master’s Degree, he worked as an intern therapist and part-time resident counselor for another residential treatment center for adolescent males with behavioral concerns. Once he earned his Master of Education for Professional Mental Health Counseling in 2014, he began working as a therapist full-time at a residential treatment center.
Later Dixon began working in a private practice setting combining mental health counseling and psychological testing. He transitioned to a community mental health/foster care agency that provided outpatient therapy to a wide variety of people. Dixon obtained his TN professional counseling license (Licensed Professional Counselor with Mental Health Service Provider Designation, or LPC-MHSP) in February 2020. Once licensed, he became a Clinical Consultant for the same community mental health/foster care organization, which he continues to this day. Finally, he achieved a long-time, primary goal of counseling in a private practice setting in the Spring of 2021, starting in Murfreesboro, then adding the Carthage location in the Fall of 2022. He indicated that his favorite thing about opening his own practice in Carthage is the freedom and flexibility to conduct business in a client-focused manner.
