Experience Emerge (ExEm)

Send us Fan Mail In this Mother’s Day episode, we highlight a mom, wife, and on-air personality who is following her career dreams and still (somehow) has time to make sure she prioritizes her family. Sara Carnes, radio host on 95.5 The Fish and Cleveland Browns In-Game Entertainment Host, shares some of her adversities that brought her to Emerge Counseling Ministries, which then led her on a jour...

Send us Fan Mail There are several buzz words being used on a daily basis in our media currently — social distancing, flattening the curve, and pandemic are just a few. In the mental health world, the buzz word is “anxiety.” In this podcast, we spend time with Tish Granville, MA, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor at Emerge Counseling, to better understand what is happening when the entire w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss the ever-changing world in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Ben McLennan, Director of National Accounts at RightNow Media, shares how they as a company are responding to the overwhelming need for resources related to anxiety, the pandemic, and people seeking more information about faith and God. Ben also gives us a personal look into how he...

Send us Fan Mail With the world changing by the second, we have a conversation with Pastor Jarrod Williams from Redemption Chapel in Stow, OH.  Pastor Jarrod discusses the state of affairs regarding the church and how it is dealing with the coronavirus.  He then shares his story of how he and his wife endured a difficult period of infertility, miscarriage and the ups and downs of adoption.  His st...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we sit down with the trauma team leader at Emerge Counseling Ministries, Victoria Gutbrod, MA, LPCC-S. Victoria gives us insight into the integration of spirituality, the brain and trauma. Victoria shares her expertise and passion around understanding human behavior and how trauma impacts us all differently. She then leads us through a very calming technique — that...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we sit down with a former client of Emerge Counseling Center, Katie Hickman.  Katie describes her battle with perfectionism during the formative years well into high school that eventually resulted in a panic attack. Her account for the need to be perfect is what opens her up to depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. Katie bravely shares her story and the ab...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Experience Emerge (ExEm), we spend time with one of the financial investors of the documentary American Gospel, Greg Robb. Greg shares his emotional story of addiction and the devastation to his family that proceeded. He recounts the genesis of adversities from growing up with addictive tendencies and then how that impacted his wife and children.  Greg gives us...