Taryn Peterson
Taryn Peterson - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, AAMFT Approved Supervisor
Taryn holds a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Trevecca Nazarene University and a BA from Belmont University. As an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Taryn is privileged to serve as Lantern Lane Farm Counseling’s Internship Supervisor. She provides clinical supervision to graduate-level interns, as well as pre-licensed therapists. She holds certifications as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, Certified Youth Mental Health Specialist, and Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist.
As a breast cancer survivor, Taryn brings a unique perspective to her practice, offering compassion and resilience to clients facing significant life challenges. She provides care to adolescents, adults, couples, and families, addressing all types of trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, addiction, disordered eating, self-harm, life transitions, abuse survivors, divorce adjustment, healthy boundaries, and other relationship difficulties.
Taryn is trained in Brainspotting and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), highly effective methods for treating trauma and PTSD. Her approach blends evidence-based therapies such as Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS)/parts work, tailoring her methods to meet each client’s unique needs. In addition to traditional 50-minute counseling sessions, Taryn also offers one- and two-day therapy intensives, allowing clients to experience more rapid progress in their growth. These intensives are tailored to the individual client's needs.
Passionate about fostering hope, healing, and personal transformation, Taryn considers it an honor to walk alongside her clients as they navigate life's challenges.
Outside of her professional work, Taryn enjoys road trips, curling up with a good book, time with horses, and hiking with her husband and two dogs while exploring landscape photography.