Dakota Lee

Dakota Lee is a Tennessean through and through, born and raised in the valleys of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville before venturing to North Carolina for his undergraduate studies at Wake Forest University. There, he graduated as a Psychology major with Biology and Chemistry minors. Afterward, he worked in several areas in preparation for graduate school including the Winston-Salem Fellows Program, as a medical scribe for an ENT surgeon, and in campus ministry as an intern for Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) at Wake Forest. He moved to Orlando in 2021 for his counseling training at Reformed Theological Seminary where he received his Masters in Counseling.

Dakota believes the mysterious changing power of counseling must be evaluated through three lenses: art, science, and faith. Each lens ultimately elicits the same philosophical question: what promotes human flourishing? His theory aims to define flourishing as being the product of healthy interpersonal relationships and honest intrapersonal congruence. The theoretical perspectives that have the greatest influence on his counseling are person-centered, emotion-focused, existential, gestalt, and experiential counseling approaches.

He provides individual and couples counseling with interest in a variety of problems including: physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, substance abuse, sexuality (addiction, dysfunction, and orientation), depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, codependency, work-related stress, life skills, career and life transitions, psychoeducation, and family of origin problems.

He wants to be at the forefront of integrated healthcare. The outcasts, the hopeless, the despondent all deserve someone who will actively see them as human - someone who will defend them and reallocate their inherent dignity.

Dakota enjoys reading classic literature, fly fishing, golfing, and playing guitar in his free time. Please contact by email at leedmcounseling@gmail.com or phone at (865) 789-4307 (leave a message).