Biography

Dr. Terry Parsons is a husband, dad, psychotherapist, university consultant, teacher, United Methodist minister, and the developer of COMMIT Seminars for dating and engaged couples, THRIVE Seminars for married couples, and INTIMACY JUNGLE seminars for singles. He is the author of The Intimacy Jungle: How You Can Survive and Thrive in a Lasting Marriage. His mission through his counseling, speaking, and writing is to help people in a world of troubled marriages and painful divorces to find the right mates, develop intimate relationships, and to have thriving, lifetime marriages.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Counseling from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. His undergraduate degree is in History and Sociology from Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas.

Dr. Parsons established his psychotherapy and consultation practice in 1980. As a therapist, his goal is to help people make positive growth and changes in their lives and relationships. He is a consulting faculty member at Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology working with groups of seminary interns and mentor pastors. Dr. Parsons also teaches counseling courses at the Perkins School of Youth Ministry and at the seminary's Course of Study School.

His professional background included being the pastor of a rural parish, a youth minister, a drug counselor and researcher, a hospital chaplain at Parkland and Presbyterian Hospitals in Dallas, and the minister of pastoral care and counseling at First United Methodist Church in Richardson, TX. Dr. Parsons' professional affiliations include: American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Pyschological Association, American Group Psychotherapy Association, and American Association of Pastoral Counselors.

Dr. Parsons and his wife Kathleen married in 1972. They are the parents of Laura, a counselor with Dr. Parsons' practice, and Adam, who works for an environmental consulting firm.

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