MARRIAGE COUNSELING
Pre-Marital Counseling, Marriage Enrichment, Marriage Restoration and Marriage Intensives
When Your Marriage Needs More Than Hope — It Needs Help
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Some marriages arrive in Dr. Tate's office barely breathing. Years of hurt. Broken trust. Conversations that always end the same way. And sometimes, a divorce that's already happened.
After more than 38,000 hours of counseling with individuals, couples, and families, he has seen it all — and he's watched God do the impossible in situations where most people had already given up.
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A Career Built Around Marriage
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Dr. Tate's journey in biblical counseling began in 1995 at The Baptist Marriage and Family Counseling Center in Fort Worth, Texas. From there, he served as Assistant Professor of Counseling at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also launched a private practice. In 2005, he joined the staff of Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison, Mississippi as Family Pastor, where he founded and directed The Center for Hope and Healing — a full-service counseling center serving both the congregation and surrounding community for nearly a decade.
Today, he divides his time between teaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, speaking at conferences, and continuing to see approximately 15 couples per week in private practice. That last part is intentional. He stays in the counseling room because he never wants the gap between theory and real life to grow wide. His counseling stays sharp because he never stops doing it.
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Focused. Specialized. Effective.
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Dr. Tate now sees married couples only, with rare exceptions made through personal referral. This isn't a limitation — it's a conviction. Marriage is his lane, and he stays in it. All other needs are referred to trusted, competent professionals in the area.
His specialty is couples in crisis — the marriages that feel too far gone, too damaged, too exhausted to survive. These are the cases he's most passionate about, and the ones where he's seen God show up most dramatically.
In the past 20 years alone, God has used Dr. Tate's counseling to help restore some of the most broken marriages imaginable. Among the most remarkable: 12 divorced couples who chose to remarry after going through counseling with him.
That's not a statistic. That's a miracle — multiplied twelve times over.
If your marriage is struggling, there is still hope. The question isn't whether God can restore it. The question is whether you're ready to do the work.
Marriage Crisis
Marriage Enrichment
Premarital Counseling
Marriage Intensives
Communication & Conflict Resolution
Not All Counseling Is Created Equal
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Counseling is one of the most complex and consequential professions in the world. Done well, it brings healing, clarity, and lasting change. Done poorly — or from the wrong foundation — it can leave people more stuck than when they started.
That's the uncomfortable truth most people don't talk about: there are more counselors failing their clients than helping them. Not because they lack credentials, but because the framework they're working from is fundamentally flawed. When counseling is built on secular humanism and self-help philosophy, it tends to do one thing remarkably well — keep people circling their pain without ever escaping it. Clients become experts in their dysfunction without ever gaining the tools to overcome it.
We take a different approach entirely.
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What We Mean by Biblical Counseling
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The term gets used loosely, so let us be specific. We define biblical counseling as:
A process in which a faithful follower of Christ — understanding their God-given gifts, training, knowledge, and expertise — follows the direction of the Holy Spirit and rightly applies God's Word in the task of walking with others toward spiritual maturity, emotional health, cognitive truth, relational stability, and behavioral accountability, in a caring and supportive environment.
Every word in that definition is intentional. This isn't counseling with a few Bible verses sprinkled in. It's a holistic, Spirit-directed process that addresses the whole person — how you think, how you feel, how you relate, and how you live. The goal isn't just symptom relief. It's genuine, lasting transformation.
That's what Dr. Tate and the counselors who work alongside him are committed to every single session.
We pray that your life will be transformed, not just changed through counseling. Utilizing the truth of God's Word, the very best in clinical practices, and counselors who are passionately devoted to Christ and their clients - we know that biblical counseling works and hope you'll give us a chance to walk with you through whatever challenges you are facing.
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If you'd like to request counseling,