Tapestries Counseling Center

We are delighted to introduce Leslie Rice as the Director of Tapestries Counseling Center!  Leslie has a wealth of clinical and nonprofit experience and connections, as well as leadership experience.  She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.  Leslie works with Children, Adolescents, Adults, Families, and Couples.  

I have the best job in the world: helping couples heal their relationship and restore their connection. One of the most profound rewards of the weekend workshop, as well as couples therapy, is watching the transformation from the power struggle to intentionality and true partnership in which couples can both freely give and receive love. 

I am dedicated to helping couples and individuals find growth, healing, joy, meaning, purpose and connection in their lives.

My wish is to create safe space to help you feel comfortable and fully supported in the work that you would like to do. I enjoy assisting with transitions through all kinds of life circumstances - grief and loss, relationship issues, career changes and soul questions or crises, to name a few. I welcome working with you to help you release what is not working in your life and to help you make room for the "new" -- for transformation, deep peace and, most of all, for joy.

​I work with individuals (adults) and am comfortable using traditional clinical methods including supportive psychotherapy, EMDR and Brainspotting. I am also trained in energy healing modalities, which I am happy to discuss with you.

I have the privilege of helping my clients heal broken hearts.  Whether your heart is broken due to a relationship breakup, death of a loved one, or because of circumstances in your life that stand in the way of having what you desire, counseling can help. Whether you are dealing with codependency, addictions to substances or behaviors, or stress after stress that just becomes overwhelming, counseling can help. Taking the step of asking for help indicates strength and commitment.

With over 40 years of experience in a variety of work settings, I offer warmth, experience and above all commitment to you and your journey.

I have over a decade of experience treating teens and adults with complex trauma, anxiety, depression, and neurodivergence. I utilize a holistic, client-centered approach and specializes in EMDR trauma therapy. I am passionate about utilizing a variety of modalities that are tailored to each individual to promote overall healing and well-being.

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I specialize in Anxiety and Panic Disorders, Depression, ADD/ADHD, Women’s Mental Health, Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Dr. Christopher Menard is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. Online Telehealth is available as well as in-person appointments in West Nashville at Tapestries Counseling Center. Dr. Menard offers individual and group therapy for adults. He also offers Imago relationship coaching for couples who are newly living together and/or engaged to be married as well as couples who have been together for years, but are having difficulty.  Dr. Menard received his doctorate from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and completed his internship at the University of Illinois Psychological Services Center in Champaign, IL.  Before moving to Nashville in the summer of 2023, he provided clinical services in Urbana, Illinois and trained doctoral students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention.   

To contact, email: DrMenard@DrMenard.org

Bethany is a marriage and family therapist. She meets with couples, families, and individuals

You are a unique and precious individual, and it would be my privilege to help you develop insight and coping mechanisms that enable you to live a life of more peace, meaning, and purpose. I am an integrative existential counselor anchored at the intersection of science and spirituality. I incorporate a variety of healing modalities into my practice including CBT, DBT, mindfulness practices, as well as expressive arts, narrative, and somatic therapies. Currently I am pre-licensed in the state of TN and a PhD intern researching how spiritual, somatic and expressive arts practices can help people heal from trauma and other challenges. I worked for over ten years in Northern VA as a mental health therapist serving youth, couples, and families and then earned a master’s in divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School.

My personal goal as your counselor is to help you see yourself as the expert in your own life, and empower you to become the person you were created to be.  I want to help you understand what thought/behavior patterns you have generated over your lifespan to help you survive that are no longer serving you. I hope to help you discover your own set of values, so that you can make choices in life that are in alignment with your core self.

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I do not believe there is a one size fits all approach to counseling, which is why I pull from a variety of modalities. My most common practices include cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and existentialism.

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I have a masters degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and am practicing under the supervision of Joy Samuels, TN LPC-MHSP #2364