Meet The Team

Tim Schladand is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed clinical alcohol and drug counselor based in Louisville, Kentucky. With more than three decades of clinical experience, he works with individuals, couples, and leaders seeking to move beyond trauma, addiction, anxiety, relationship distress, shame, and limiting personal narratives.

Tim’s approach balances deep clinical experience with a compassionate, heart-centered style. His work is rooted in psychodynamic therapy and the understanding that early relationships can shape how people experience intimacy, conflict, safety, and connection throughout adulthood.

He helps clients recognize how childhood survival strategies can become automatic, unconscious patterns later in life. Although these patterns may originally develop to manage stress or protect against painful emotions, they can eventually interfere with relationships, vulnerability, and the ability to give and receive love.

By identifying these patterns, Tim helps clients better understand the underlying causes of anxiety, trauma, addiction, and relationship distress. His work emphasizes emotional honesty, courage, vulnerability, and the development of greater safety, connection, and self-awareness.

Tim believes people possess an innate capacity to heal and that meaningful change often requires more than intellectual understanding alone. He partners with clients as they challenge the narratives that diminish them and develop more authentic, connected, and intentional ways of living.

In addition to his clinical practice, Tim has held significant leadership roles in men’s work, recovery advocacy, and personal-development training. He co-founded the Kentucky community of The ManKind Project USA in 1992 and now serves as a Leader Emeritus. Through that work, he has led experiential men’s trainings across the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Tim is also a co-creator of Vibrant Emeritus, a curriculum designed to help men over sixty cultivate purpose, vitality, and a meaningful legacy. He has additionally served as a leadership trainer with People Advocating Recovery, supporting addiction-recovery advocacy and community leadership.

Areas of Specialization

• Trauma resolution and trauma-informed care
• Addiction treatment and long-term recovery
• Couples counseling and relationship healing
• Anxiety, shame, and relationship distress
• Psychodynamic therapy
• EMDR
• Gottman Method couples therapy
• Hakomi Method
• Family Constellations and systemic approaches
• Mens work and experiential healing work

John Bell has worked in clinical practice for more than thirty-six years, including twenty-three years in private practice. He works with individuals, couples, and older teens seeking healing and personal growth related to trauma, sex addiction, substance use, depression, anxiety, and relationship difficulties.

John specializes in helping clients uncover the underlying trauma and protective patterns that keep them from reaching their personal and relational goals. He believes that many behaviors and relationship struggles make greater sense when understood in the context of what a person has experienced and how they learned to cope.

Couples work is one of John’s primary specialties and passions. He helps couples examine how trauma, addiction, communication patterns, and family dynamics affect their relationships. His work focuses on helping partners identify unhealthy patterns, strengthen recovery skills, rebuild trust, and incorporate healing into healthier family functioning.

John also has extensive experience working with law-enforcement professionals, individuals affected by PTSD, and adults healing from childhood trauma. He has considerable experience helping clients navigate the effects of personality disorders within family systems and close relationships. He also provides substance-use disorder interventions for individuals and families.

John is Level I certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and incorporates multiple therapeutic and experiential modalities into his work.

At the center of John’s approach is the belief that healing happens in the context of relationship. He understands that reaching out can be one of the most difficult steps in beginning therapy, and he places importance on creating trust, answering questions, and helping clients understand what to expect.

Areas of Specialization

• Trauma and childhood trauma
• Sex addiction and compulsive sexual behavior
• Substance-use disorders and interventions
• Couples and relationship therapy
• Pyschodynamic therapy
• PTSD and law-enforcement trauma
• Depression and anxiety
• Family systems and personality-disorder dynamics
• EMDR
• Gottman Method couples therapy
• Recovery skills and family functioning
• Mens work and experiential healing work