Welcome to HealingChoice

Welcome to HealingChoice

Welcome to HealingChoice™, where we hope you will find a pathway to your personal or relationship healing.

HealingChoice™ is a Christian umbrella organization for several types of therapeutic care. Dr. Marcus Tanner and his wife Michelle founded the organization.  The concept of HealingChoice™ was birthed out of their own experiences in life and their deep desire to help hurting people find healing.

HealingChoice™ can help you strengthen your relationships, manage your depression or anxiety, and help with other therapeutic needs.  Give us call!

Our Services

Online Therapy
Online Therapy

Online therapy is a service for clients that takes place using an online telehealth software, phone, or email. While online therapy isn’t the best option for everyone, you might be in a situation where receiving therapy in this way would be beneficial. Let us know if you would like to be considered for this service.

Family Therapy
Family Therapy

HealingChoice Family Therapy offers a range of individual, couple, and family services and is committed to serving the needs of our community. All of our therapists are trained and experienced in working with individuals in various life situations.
Our office is conveniently located just off the corner of 66th and Frankford in Lubbock, TX. We are accepting new clients and work with individuals, couples, and families.
Our therapists have their own areas of specialized interests. To learn more about our therapists please visit their page under the About Us tab.

Trauma Therapy
Trauma Therapy

Trauma is the emotional and physiological responses to a terrible event. Traumatic experiences can be a single incident or a series of similar or different incidents over time such as sexual abuse or witnessing a violent event. Research has also shown experiences such as job loss or bullying are associated with traumatic symptoms. Trauma often has long-term and devastating effects. Sometimes the effects of trauma don’t look like what we expect and often show up as feelings of anger, betrayal, or sadness. If you think you may need help overcoming trauma in your life, let our trained therapists help.

PastorCare
PastorCare

PastorCare, helps ministry couples and families understand and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships. PastorCare gives ministry couples and families the tools to communicate better, negotiate differences, problem solve and even argue in a healthier way.

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Mar, 2018

Healthy Habits for Great Communication – Emotional Flooding

In the previous post, I discussed the four horsemen of the apocalypse and how to defeat them. In this post, I want to talk about a related issue of stonewalling; emotional flooding. It is one of the biggest relationship challenges people struggle with. Like all relationship problems, this one is not unique. Even the masters of relationship experiences it sometimes. But if you don’t know how to respond to it, it can escalate conflict and create disconnection between you and your partner. Fortunately, many of the steps you can take to resolve it are pretty simple. Not necessarily easy, but simple. So, what is emotional flooding?Read More

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Mar, 2018

Healthy Habits for Great Communication – Defeating the Four Horsemen

In previous posts, I have mentioned the concept of the four horsemen in this post, I want to discuss them in greater detail and provide a few quick strategies for defeating them.  A shout out to John and Julie Gottman, I love their work and training of other therapists! In their research, they asked two primary questions. First, “what makes a satisfying marriage?” and second, “what predicts divorce?” Read More

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Mar, 2018

Healthy Habits for Great Communication – Embracing Your Role

In my previous post, I introduced the importance of great communication in healthy relationships. How do we better understand our role in healthy communication? In this post, I want to discuss several important roles for healthy communication. As a quick reminder, while my focus is on healthy communication between romantic partners, it is important to understand these skills are equally as effective in most relationships. There are two primary communication roles, the Speaker and Listener. Read More