Dr. Charles Tullis, Jr.

Dr. Charles Tullis, Jr. brings 36 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, and families across civilian and military communities. He maintains a respectful, multicultural stance and welcomes people from all social classes and backgrounds. His professional history includes roles as a military service member and as a federal employee, equipping him to address the particular demands of both military and civilian life.

Dr. Tullis aims to help people uncover their potential and build lives they can celebrate. While past events cannot be changed, he collaborates with clients to better understand current challenges and to develop practical paths forward. Using a comprehensive, integrated approach, he helps identify long-standing behavior patterns or limiting beliefs that may be preventing more fulfilling relationships and well-being.

He accepts a client’s immediate family relationships and broader social context as valuable resources in solving life’s problems. Therapy goals are set collaboratively, and the primary objective is to resolve the issues that clients and therapist determine to be most important. Assessment guides the selection of theory, model, and interventions that are most likely to help a client reach their goals.

Dr. Tullis works from a people-oriented perspective, helping couples and families organize relationships so that available resources can be applied to the problems presented. He frequently uses instruction and modeling of communication skills, interactive processes, family role-playing, family sculpting, and between-session assignments. Homework is considered a vital component of therapy and is expected to reinforce progress made in sessions.

His clinical training includes family systems theory and models such as Bowenian Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Object Relations Therapy. He also draws on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Reality Therapy, and Multi-Model Therapy, along with client-centered approaches influenced by Rogerian and psychoanalytic-type theories. In addition to his clinical degrees, Dr. Tullis is a National Certified Counselor with the National Board for Certified Counselors and a clinical fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is a graduate of the United States Army Chaplain Family Life Counseling Program.

Dr. Tullis holds advanced degrees including a Master of Divinity from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts in Counseling from Liberty University, a Master of Science in Community Counseling with a concentration in Marriage and Family Counseling from Columbus State University, a Doctor of Ministry from Luther Rice Seminary, and a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Northcentral University. He is licensed as a marriage and family therapist in Kansas (LCMFT 2927) and holds professional counseling licensure in Georgia (LPC005547). He also holds License #880 as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with the LPC Board of Examiners in Louisiana.