Keri Blair
GRADUATE-LEVEL COUNSELING INTERN“Is there any hope after failure? Can my life, marriage, or relationships be restored after all I’ve done?”
These are the questions Keri often hears—and has once asked herself. If you’ve ever wondered why we make the choices we do, or if you’ve felt like your past mistakes are too big to come back from, you’re not alone—and there is hope. Keri’s journey into counseling is deeply personal. From a young age, she experienced complex trauma that was never fully understood or processed, including harm at age ten that shaped how she viewed herself and the world. This pain was compounded by the loss of her mother during adolescence, leaving her without a secure sense of self or space to grieve. Like many, Keri learned to cope through performance, people-pleasing, achievement, and anger—adaptive responses rooted in loneliness, unresolved grief, and disrupted attachment.
As she moved into adulthood, these unhealed wounds grew heavier, particularly through the heartbreak of infertility and miscarriage. Keri understands that some suffering comes from circumstances entirely beyond our control, while other pain emerges from patterns, we unknowingly develop in an effort to survive. Either way, she believes every person deserves the opportunity to heal, grow, and find balance—especially when self-awareness brings grief not only for what was lost, but for what was never received. After spending 17 years in a highly competitive sales career with national recognition and titles, Keri ultimately realized that success and civic leadership roles alone could not bring wholeness. True restoration began when she surrendered her own efforts to fix her life and instead leaned into God and a path of intentional healing.
Today, Keri brings both clinical insight and deep empathy to her work with clients. Her approach is trauma-sensitive, attachment-informed, and faith-integrated when desired. Research on attachment consistently demonstrates that when early emotional needs are unmet or secure bonds are disrupted, individuals may carry patterns of emotional dysregulation, relational insecurity, and unresolved grief into adolescence and adulthood. Many children grow up navigating circumstances they did not choose—such as family stress, loss, trauma, learning challenges, or instability—which can shape how they understand emotions, relationships, and their sense of safety in the world. When children are exposed to environments beyond their control without consistent, safe spaces to explore emotions and form healthy attachments, these early experiences can influence their outlook and relational patterns over time. Counseling provides a supportive, nurturing environment where children can begin to make sense of their feelings and experiences in developmentally appropriate ways that support healing, resilience and healthy relationships across the lifespan.
Keri integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and attachment-based interventions to help clients understand how early relational experiences influence current thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses. She works with children, adolescents, adults, and couples, to increase self-awareness, strengthen emotional regulation, and build healthier, more secure relationships. Through compassionate counseling, Keri walks alongside clients as they process pain, release shame, and reconnect with a sense of meaning and identity. She believes purpose is not found in titles or perfection, but in cultivating authenticity, self-acceptance, and hope—and that no one is ever too far gone for healing, grace, or repair.
Outside of her work, Keri has been married for 15 years and loves spending time with her husband and daughter. She is originally from Louisville, Kentucky but has called Memphis her home for over 25 years. She finds joy in music, interior design, and the simple pleasures of life, like curling up with a good book and a cup of coffee. These moments remind her to embrace gratitude and mindfulness, values she also encourages in her clients.
Education
Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling - Harding University
Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology - Union University