Welcome to Temenos Counseling and Spiritual Direction
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than it was to blossom" Anais Nin
About Me
Tammy Hagins, MA, LPC, SD
Tammy Hagins, MA, LPC, SD
Tammy Hagins, MA, LPC, SD
- "God's love takes us on journeys where we do not wish to go, makes us travel by roads we do not wish to use, to take us to places we never wish to leave." Thomas Cranmer
Tammy Hagins, MA, LPC, SD
Tammy Hagins, MA, LPC, SD
After completing my Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Florida Southern College, with a minor in Religion, I went on to complete my Master of Arts in both Islamic Studies and Marriage and Family Counseling at Southwestern Baptist Theological Studies. Since then, I have worked in both a private practice setting, as well as a group prac
After completing my Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Florida Southern College, with a minor in Religion, I went on to complete my Master of Arts in both Islamic Studies and Marriage and Family Counseling at Southwestern Baptist Theological Studies. Since then, I have worked in both a private practice setting, as well as a group practice setting, which included outpatient, inpatient, and intensive outpatient services. While I’ve been working with survivors of trauma for most of my career, the past ten years have been focused primarily on working with active duty and retired service members and their families, survivors of abuse, teens in the foster care system, and missionaries and NGO workers who’ve experienced difficult things overseas. I’ve had the opportunity to lead a variety of groups, including: a PTSD Support and Skills Group, a PTSD Spouse's Support Group, Support Systems, Sleep, Life Balance, Survivors of Abuse, and a Women's Empowerment Group. In addition to working with people who’ve experienced trauma, I also do marriage, pre-marriage, and family counseling, as well as spiritual direction.
Outside of the office, I like to spend time volunteering and participating in community activities. I’ve been a part of the Medical Reserve Corps of El Paso County, the Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado, volunteered with SBTC Disaster Relief and Pikes Peak Therapeutic Riding Center, served as a personal and family coach for intensives with LEAD (a leadership development program at Dallas Theological Seminary), and participated in the interviewing, selection, placing, training, and debriefing of college missionaries with several sending agencies. My late husband and I worked with victims of sexual exploitation in India and Thailand and also were part of teams doing relief and development work in Iraq and Indonesia. I’ve been a part of teams doing relief and community work in Jamaica, Australia, Yemen, and China- and have worked closely with refugees in Israel and Greece, as well as here in the US, having volunteered with Catholic Charities, Lutheran Family Services, and World Relief. I enjoy doing member care for workers overseas and have worked with teams in North Africa and Central Asia, as well as provided support for those returning from difficult experiences overseas. In the US, I’ve served as a volunteer to provide counseling with those impacted by Hurricane Katrina, the Waldo Canyon Fire, and local shootings.
Tammy Hagins, MA, LPC, SD
In addition to counseling, I’ve gotten to help with cross cultural trainings for overseas workers and graduate level counseling students, and trainings on trauma for spiritual directors, NGOs, community helpers and pastoral leaders. Before becoming a counselor, I was a crisis counselor for a crisis line and rape crisis center, a youth
In addition to counseling, I’ve gotten to help with cross cultural trainings for overseas workers and graduate level counseling students, and trainings on trauma for spiritual directors, NGOs, community helpers and pastoral leaders. Before becoming a counselor, I was a crisis counselor for a crisis line and rape crisis center, a youth director and mentor at churches in GA and FL, and an outdoor education facilitator and teacher with an outdoor education and community leadership development program. Currently, I enjoy time parenting my daughter, hiking, climbing, travelling, and spending time with friends.
Related Training
- Benedictine Spiritual Formation Program (Two Year Spiritual Formation Program for Spiritual Direction through Benet Hill Monastery)
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
- CPT (Cognitive Processing Therapy)
- CPT-I (Cognitive Processing Therapy for Insomnia)
- Splankna Level 1
- Complimentary and Alternative Therapies Training (Training in Heart Math, TAT, EFT, and Energy Therapies)
- Listening Prayer and Inner Healing Training Through the Navigators
- Suicide Assessment and Prevention Training Through Military One Source
- Access Training Through Polaris Project (Anti-Trafficking Agency in Denver)
- Incident Command System Course and National Incident Management System Training Through FEMA
- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
- Issues in Abuse through Mars Hill Graduate School and the Allender Center
- Internship with A Safe Haven (Domestic Violence Shelter)
- Finding a Shepard's Heart
Services
Individual Counseling
Marriage and Family Counseling
Marriage and Family Counseling
Specializing in treatment of military and military families, internationals, PTSD, combat related trauma, grief/ loss, survivors of abuse or assault, survivors of domestic violence, survivors of military sexual trauma, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and issues around preparing for and returning from overseas work. I also provide support for
Specializing in treatment of military and military families, internationals, PTSD, combat related trauma, grief/ loss, survivors of abuse or assault, survivors of domestic violence, survivors of military sexual trauma, anxiety, sleep disturbance, and issues around preparing for and returning from overseas work. I also provide support for secondary trauma, job burnout, and career/ ministry transitions. My approach to counseling combines several different modalities, including: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Dilactical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Person Centered Therapy, and Spiritually Based Counseling (if requested). Phone, Skype, and intensives are offered for out of town clients.
Marriage and Family Counseling
Marriage and Family Counseling
Marriage and Family Counseling
Marriage Counseling is available for couples seeking help in repairing or strengthening their relationship. Pre-Marital Counseling can be provided for couples who are engaged or considering marriage. Family Counseling is available for families in crisis or needing support with parent/ child relationships, sibling relationships, other family relationships, or transitions with adoptions.
Spiritual Direction
Marriage and Family Counseling
Spiritual Direction
Spiritual direction most simply put is spiritual companioning. Its coming alongside a person in their spiritual journey, as they learn to see and hear God in their stories and lives. Spiritual direction is not therapy. It is not about telling people what to believe or how to act, rather it is helping the person awaken to the mystery of God in all of life.
Out Alive: A Journey Through Loss with a Heart Alive
A book of hope and understanding for every moment of wondering, Will I ever truly feel alive again?
When Tammy Hagins's husband died in a tragic accident at the age of 46, Tammy found herself on an unexpected and unwanted journey of grief. As she held her five-year-old daughter through long nights, navigated the endless paperwork surrounding Kevin's death, and learned the joys and challenges of receiving help from others, Tammy thought over and over, This is not the way life was supposed to go.
Out Alive is the heart-wrenching, hope-filled story of Tammy's first year as a young widow. Writing for anyone experiencing shattered dreams, Tammy draws on her background as a counselor as well as her personal story to come alongside us in our own experiences of loss. Brutally honest about anger and fears, haunting regrets, and midnight wrestlings with God, Out Alive is a tribute to what it looks like to climb tenderly back to new life. As Tammy writes, despite all the unanswered questions, she holds a heart that is "alive and intact, possibly even more alive than it had been before my husband's death."
If you are wondering how your life became something so different than what you had planned, find encouragement and companionship in Tammy's words as you embrace the beauty and the struggle of living with a heart alive.
