Emmanuel Maize

Emmanuel Maize is a Kentucky-based licensed professional clinical counselor with 11 years of professional practice and a broader background spanning more than 30 years working with adults, children, adolescents, and families.

He holds a Kentucky professional clinical counseling license (KY LPCC 172544), a credential that authorizes him to provide clinical counseling services in Kentucky.

He currently serves as Treatment Director at Sunrise Children’s Services and has extensive experience in residential child care as well as work with individuals who are severely mentally ill. He is also the owner and operator of The Maize Family Counseling Services, LLC.

A graduate of Webster University, Emmanuel uses a range of therapeutic approaches. His primary modalities include Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing (MI), rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). He also draws on Gestalt and Existential theory and is certified in EMDR.

His practice addresses a wide array of concerns, including parenting and family issues, ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, relationship conflicts, trauma and abuse, addictions, LGBT-related matters, grief, intimacy-related concerns, sleeping disorders, anger management, self-esteem challenges, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. He has also served as a Juvenile Sex Offending Counselor (JSOC) since January 2021.

On a personal level, Emmanuel is a husband, father, grandfather, brother, and uncle who was raised as the middle son among 13 siblings. He has been married, divorced, and remarried, and has been in his current interracial marriage for 23 years. He is a person of faith who is open and affirming to all people.

Emmanuel believes people have the capacity to live healthy, whole lives when they are willing to embrace change, and he welcomes the opportunity to be part of a client’s journey as they explore new possibilities together.