Daugette Family Counseling Adds Intern

Daugette Family Counseling recently announced it has added Drew Whittington as clinical counseling intern. He will be seeing clients in the afternoons and evenings for a reduced rate under the supervision of Whitney Daugette and Dr. Jeff Garrett. Whittington is a clinical mental health counseling master’s student at Marshall University. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from the University of Alabama, where he conducted and published research in the areas of parent-child relationships, family studies and young adult development. He has also received continuing education in childhood trauma and trauma-informed interventions. His approach to counseling is a mixture of humanistic and cognitive-behavioral therapy, in which the relationship between client and therapist is the most important factor. He utilizes extensively researched techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help clients reduce distress and increase engagement in meaningful and desired activities.