William K. Daugherty

Education

  • A.S. in Sociology from The University of Tennessee Knoxville

  • B.S in Psychology from Middle Tennessee State University

Relevant Prior Work History

  • Lead IOP Counselor at The McNabb Center in Athens,TN

  • Lead Behavioral Health Technician at CADAS (Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services) in Downtown Chattanooga

  • Volunteer at Doors of Hope Substance Abuse Facility in Murfreesboro, TN.

Getting To Know me,

My healing journey truly began nearly a decade ago. After enduring a tremendous amount of emotional, mental, and physical pain and trauma, I began realizing that I could no longer function as a human being...

Throughout this last decade, I have uncovered the meaning of peace and serenity, I have discovered the purpose behind all of the pain I survived, as well as the ability to find joy and happiness within myself.

My passion is now to share these gifts with others.

  • It all begin with an idea. A thought. A feeling. A nudge. Since I was young, I’ve always had a yearning to help others, especially those who could not help themselves.

  • I started my collegiate career in Pre-Law; then, as I realized I wanted to learn more about how people interact with each other, I changed my major to Sociology. After earning an Associates Degree in Sociology from the University of Knoxville, I discovered I truly wanted to pursue and gain knowledge pertaining to how people specifically interact with and treat themselves. Shortly thereafter, I earned a Bachelors of Science in Pschology from Middle Tennessee State University—graduating with The Senior Psychology Honor Student Award.

  • I have spent my time since graduating working in the mental health field—specifically the substance abuse field—both as a BHT (Behaviorial Health Technician) as well as a Substance Abuse IOP Counselor. I devised and implemented a 90 day ciriculum addressing every facet of the disease of addiction: how it develops, how to treat it, and how to have a normal life despite it. After realizing that Counselng was not all that I believed it to have been, I resigned from my position. Since then, I have been working on developing my new passion: Life Coaching.

    My goal in pursuing Life Coaching as a career is to not look into the past to dig up and process the most painful, abusive, and difficult memories a client has, so much as to look into the future and find someone we could aspire to be that we would be proud of.

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Why Life Coaching?

  • Helps during crises

  • Allows an individual to return to normal level of functioning after said crises

  • Helps an individual understand and process their traumatic experiences

  • Essentially digs up the most painful moments from the past in order to stop rumination and flashbacks (symptoms of PTSD/Anxiety)

  • Is not sustainable long term (financially)

  • Eventually a client gets to the point where everything has been talked about/processed and then they are paying 100$-150$/hr to just check in with a clinician about how the last 7-14 days were, and what happened during the time between sessions.

  • There also comes a point in therapy, for some individuals, where they are done looking and living in the past and want to build a future on the foundation of normalcy they earned IN therapy.

Counseling

  • Encourages growth past the point of normalcy

  • Is not meant to treat diagnoses, but to motivate you to grow in spite of the road blocks (diagnoses) on your journey

  • Helps you push past difficulties with nearly 24/7 support (if needed)

  • Teaches you to sit WITH painful emotions, not IN them

  • Ability for practitioner to share their own experiences—going through what the client is going through—and how they made it through it (self-disclosure)

  • Allows for more personal interaction between the practitioner and client

  • Allows the practitioner to seem more like a human being—they are more relatable

Life coaching

What Makes Me Your Best Choice?

  1. I have been in weekly therapy for the last 7 years, until I got to the point at which I realized there was nothing left to talk about.

  2. I am a person in Recovery and have been for the last 5 years; I have the lived experience that I would want if I was looking for someone to be my Life Coach.

  3. I will never ask you to do something which I have not done PERSONALLY and which I know has personally worked for me.

  4. I have the clinical and professional experience most other Life Coaches lack; I have been a BHT (Behavioral Health Technician) as well as a Counselor whose main job was to create and implement a clinical curriculum (or plan) to treat the disease of addiction, as well as the preceding trauma, while still including and treating the co-occurring disorders that typically come with being an addict (PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar, Borderline Personality, ADD/ADHD, etc..)

  5. I will never hide the truth from you; I will be very direct and assertive and tell you not what you WANT to hear, but what you NEED to hear. I will not lie to you to keep you happy. If that is something you want your Life Coach to do, I am not the right one for you—there are plenty out there that will, but that will not be me.

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