Cody Hester, LPCA: Florence

Hi, my name is Cody. After attaining my Master of Science in School Counseling at Mississippi State University, I started working on my Ph.D. in Counseling Education and Supervision. My life goal is to teach the next generation of counselors. Counseling for me is companionship, and companions are with you through the good and the not-so-good. The most important thing for me in counseling is creating a relationship where people can feel and think how they want to about their experience within the relationship. I utilize a variety of integrated theories and techniques such as Play therapy techniques, CBT, REBT, DBT techniques, Reality/Choice theory, Narrative therapy techniques, and Parent, Adult, and Child (PAC) theory. Everyone lives life through different lenses. Biological, physiological, and environmental variables influence those perspectives in different domains of people’s lives. My emphasis on the view of human nature in counseling theory provides me with a combination of modalities for supporting normal day-to-day individuals through abnormal situations. My school counseling degree also supports me in providing informed care on the language and experiences of all developmental stages through relationships, identity, a full range of emotions, lack of emotions, grief, trauma, adverse and complex trauma, oppositional behaviors, and other emotional behaviors.