J. Michael Blackston

Written By Erik

Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Michael has a passion to help others pursue wholeness in life. Through his relational yet practical approach, he specializes in trauma and abuse recovery, relationship issues, and gender and sexuality issues including working with men dealing with sexual integrity issues. He has been trained in EMDR, an evidence-based therapy for treating trauma. Michael is a Qualified Supervisor for those seeking licensure as mental health counselors in Florida.

Michael graduated with his Master’s degree in Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary. He has also completed an Advanced Counseling Certificate under Dan Allender where he was trained in utilizing trauma-focused narrative therapy with survivors of abuse. He speaks frequently with his wife Rachel on issues related to story, sexuality and marriage. He enjoys lightsaber jousting with his daughters, long-distance running, and playing the piano.

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Erik

By day, Erik is a digital marketing manager helping clients build digital strategies to drive incremental revenue to their websites. By night, he's a Wantrepreneur and blogger. He lives in Orlando, FL with his beautiful wife and two amazing kids. When he's not working he's trying to act like he's still good at basketball, writing, spending time with the fam, wondering why he's at Disney for the third time this month, and drinking great beer and bourbon. P.S. Erik has more conservative viewpoints than most of the other bros, so you'll probably hate his articles more than the others. 

http://www.erikfolgate.com
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