Get Back Up

To kick off our mental health focus, Alyssa Robinson had the privilege of talking to Dr. Monique Thompson, DHA, LPC, LPC-S. In today's episode, Dr. Thompson shares the strength of human resilience and our ability to get back up time and time again with the hope and love that Christ gives us. Mental wellness is an ongoing journey that each of us has to decide to start for ourselves. Are you ready to explore the question, "Which way is up?" TMUMC.ORG/wellness

Dr. Thompson is a mental health counselor in private practice north of Dallas/Fort Worth in her 20th year of practice. She has supervised to licensure 14 counselors in Texas. Her specialties are adult survivors of sexual trauma, couples recovery from affairs, PTSD and Bipolar Disorder. She was recently picked up by publisher, Callisto Media and published a workbook, Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples: Tools and Exercises to Rebuild Your Relationship which has ranked in the top 100-200 Dating Books on Amazon.

Dr. Thompson is in her 19th year as a consultant for Southern Methodist University (SMU) Perkins School of Theology. She is Associate Faculty with the University of Phoenix where she was nominated for Faculty of the Year, 2020. She was recently named a 2021 History In Heels Honoree.

Dr. Thompson serves the community through a nonprofit Whatsoever Is Good, Inc. that she and her daughter Tamia Thompson established. She works with middle and high school students across the U.S. offering the Zero Debt College Project which aims to help students develop effective scholarship strategies and avoid student loan debt. The program strategies helped Dr. Thompson's daughter Tamia with getting 10.5 million in merit scholarship offers and acceptance to over 160 colleges. Dr. Thompson is the first black woman on the school board in Little Elm having won the 2020 election with 11 out of 14 precincts. Her term began December 14, 2020.