Clinicians

Clinicians | Administrative Staff | Board Members

Cherie G. Nuckols, MSW, LCSW

Executive Director

Cherie Nuckols is the Executive Director and founder of Footsteps Counseling Center and has been practicing as a licensed mental health therapist since 1998.

Prior to feeling God’s call in her life to begin a professional Christian counseling center, she worked both in both outpatient and inpatient mental health settings. Her specialties include childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse, women’s issues, depression, co-dependency, and spiritual formation.

Cherie’s passion is helping people find happiness and wholeness, despite their circumstance. One of her favorite quotes is by Corrie Ten Bloom, a holocaust survivor: “There is no pit so deep that God is not greater still” (The Hiding Place, 1996).

Cherie received her Masters Degree in clinical social work from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.

S. Matthew Brown , MA , LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Matthew has over 13 years professional experience and has been with Footsteps Counseling Center for over 2 years. Prior to joining Footsteps, he worked in a variety of mental health settings serving in both management and practitioner roles.

Matthew felt the call of Christ to minister to others at a young age and has pursued this calling by utilizing his counseling training and integrating that with his Biblically based education and experience. This journey has opened up opportunities to serve with a world renowned Christian organization, to do missions work, as well as local church ministry.

Matthew uses traditional family and individual therapy treatment modalities in the outpatient counseling services he provides and integrates the client’s faith to help them identify solutions to problems that deprive them of joy in life. He longs for individuals and families to experience the fullness and glory of God even in the midst of the pain and struggles of life.

Education:

Master of Arts, Psychology (1997), Chapman University (Colorado Springs, CO)

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Virginia and Colorado) since 2000

 

 

Karen R. Evans, MSW, LCSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Karen has worked in the field of mental health for over 30 years. A specialist in substance abuse and addictive behavior, she was instrumental in the start up of the DUI program for Boulder County Colorado in 1980 and was involved with the Mental Health System for the state of California, where she worked convicted sex offenders and their victims.

Karen was in private practice in Boulder, Colorado for over seven years before moving to Tennessee where she worked as a family therapist on the Children’s Unit at Vanderbilt Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital. In addition to her expertise in substance abuse and addiction, Karen also specializes in treating adults with mood disorders and personality disorders.

Karen has always had great admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt, and on the wall in her office is a quote from Ms. Roosevelt: “Most of the good work in the world is done by people who weren’t feeling all that well the day they did it.”

Karen received her MSW from the University of Denver in 1986.