Thrive's Mission

Thrive exists to create a purposeful future for students, professionals, and leaders.

What if you could feel incredible satisfaction and purpose in life? Maybe you are a student considering which career path to pursue or an adult seeking help with a life transition. You could be a young professional figuring out your best career path. We are here to help you work through those transitions so that you can become the best version of… You!

About Luke

About Jeanne

Jeanne Couchman grew up in the Pennsylvania “Wilds” before attending Millersville University in historic Lancaster, PA. At Millersville, Jeanne earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and graduated from the University’s Honors College. Jeanne’s subsequent professional career began in the Mutual Funds Document Compliance Industry where she climbed the corporate ladder through various project management roles, to department supervisor and, ultimately, to regional manager which included a relocation to Chicago, IL.

Throughout her career in financial document compliance, Jeanne often felt she was capable of doing, contributing and thriving more. After four years in Chicago, Jeanne reached a tipping point and chose to leave the industry in pursuit of a better fit. In reflection of where she felt most impactful and personally satisfied, Jeanne realized her core passion for staff development and mentoring could be utilized in a more fulfilling and focused way.

Embracing mentorship as a full-time pursuit, Jeanne discovered Highlands Ability Battery (HAB) in April 2020 and lept at the opportunity to become a Highlands Certified Consultant. Since, Jeanne is enjoying a more satisfied career path of leading students and professionals through the HAB and providing them with structure to reach personal and professional fulfillment. Whether choosing a college major, tweaking your current career path or pivoting into a completely new pursuit, Jeanne looks forward to the opportunity to partner with you on blazing your unique path.

Outside of coaching, Jeanne enjoys adventure and history traveling, most anything outdoors, finding joy in the ‘little’ things, photography and pizza.

About Dr. Guy

Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy is originally from New York City, relocating to Nashville, TN in 2021. She holds a Bachelors of Arts (BA) degree in Psychology and Sociology from Brooklyn College and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Organizational Management from St. Joseph’s College. She is a Doctor of Education (EdD) with a focus of Executive Leadership, graduating from St. John Fisher College in 2014. She specializes in Career Counseling, Mental Health and Psychology, Teaching, Adult Motivation, Small Business Consulting, Executive Leadership, Small Business Development for Economic Improvement, Lean Tech Startups, Business Ethics, and Organizational Efficiency. Presently, Dr. Guy is preparing to complete State licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-MHSP).

Dr. Guy has been an Adjunct Professor at Kean University (NJ) since 2019, but has taught in higher education for 12 years. She has careers in consulting, college teaching and corporate finance. In addition to teaching and counseling, she most recently held executive roles as a Financial Controller at Garden State Sealing (NJ) and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Healthy Kids First (NY). She retained an 18-year career in corporate finance. Dr. Guy has also completed independent business planning and development projects for multiple small businesses in New York. Career counseling and therapy provided by Dr. Guy helps you navigate employment and small business challenges. She counsels students and non-students in job satisfaction, career planning and transitions, employment tools, training, time management, performance, social skills and teamwork, support systems, coping, emotional intelligence, confidence building, conflict management, communication, strategy, work-life balance, goal attainment and professional growth. Additional services include, psychological testing and assessments, resume development, business plan development with budget and forecasting, mock interviewing, presentations, projects, blogs and research studies.

For career counseling and therapy, Dr. Sue Ann T. Guy utilizes individual sessions, small groups, workshops and teletherapy to counsel an array of clients (i.e., women, men, teens, adults, retirees, students, employees, managers, executives and leaders, immigrant, military veteran, essential workers, couples, families, groups, teams and organizations, etc.).  She believes in developing the whole self in preparation for career success. As a Career Consultant of Thrive Consulting, Dr. Guy’s holistic, clinical approach encompasses positive psychology, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), psychoanalysis, strength-based, solutions-focused (SFBT), emotionally-focused (EFT), trauma-focus, coaching, motivational interviewing, testing and assessments, family systems, multicultural, support groups and government support services. The approach is integrative as necessary.

About Dr. Newbury

Dr. Emily Newbury is originally from Connecticut and relocated to Nashville in 2020. She has a PsyD in clinical psychology from Antioch University New England in Keene, NH, and although she enjoys living down South, she is truly a New Englander at heart. While Emily is currently working at Thrive as a coach, she is in the process of obtaining LPC/MHSP licensure in TN to practice as a psychotherapist as well.

Emily’s clinical training is in working with college students and young adults who are struggling with anxiety, depression, school/career stress, disordered eating, identity, and life transitions. She completed her doctoral internship and post doc at Georgia State University Counseling Center. She has worked in higher education for 7 years.

As a coach, Emily specializes in burnout recovery work with early career professionals. She utilizes integrative wellness strategies to help her clients move from burnout back to wellness. Emily works with young professionals who feel overwhelmed, are high achieving, people pleasing, and who may be questioning career decisions. Through her clinical training and semi-structured coaching programs, she helps her clients navigate difficult decisions, find their voices, and live a more balanced life.

Emily’s therapy and coaching styles are a mix of compassionate, curious, & solution focused. She believes the client/coach relationship is based in equality; the client is the expert of their lives and she is there to reflect back and guide. Together with her clients, she creates a personalized, semi-structured integrative coaching programs designed to address the common struggles of early career folk & help clients bounce back.

About Bryan Davis

Bryan Davis is originally from Columbus, Ohio and relocated to Nashville in 2000. He graduated from Capital University with a degree in Psychology and his career path has been an adventure ever since. Bryan has a wide range of career experience ranging from state government, performing rights, medical device sales, corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and real estate development. He attributes his success in these roles to his outside-the-box thinking, innovative and creative approaches, and his ability to hang in there until he figures it out. Be sure and ask Bryan how he broke into medical sales.

As a certified coach and career coach/consultant, he specializes in helping his clients “figure it out”, whether it’s moving up, or moving on into an entirely new career. Bryan utilizes his experience, creative problem-solving, and perspective to assist his clients in discovering their next passion, creating a plan, and then working together to strategically execute that plan while developing the necessary mindset, leadership skills and executive presence to overcome the challenge ahead.

He believes a person’s work-life is one of the most important aspects of life, and it’s here that a person can realize their greatest sense of achievement and fulfillment. Bryan is committed to helping his clients reach a new level of purpose in their lives.

About Hope Armstrong

Hope Armstrong is from Michigan and Kentucky and relocated to Nashville in 2021. She graduated from Western Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education and a Master of Arts in Education degree in school counseling. Her work experience has focused on serving youth and adults in various settings. She works as an educational consultant where she helps develop curriculum and training for educators and Pre-Employment Transition Services providers to help high school students with disabilities reach their employment or education goals after high school. She has provided Pre-Employment Transition Services to youth and young adults in high school and postsecondary education settings. She worked in partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation to help these individuals reach their goals.

Hope also has experience working as a teacher, intervention specialist for a family preservation program, and program manager of a therapeutic foster care program. Throughout her career, Hope is passionate about helping people reach their goals for themselves. As a career coach, Hope works with the client to help them explore and determine the career that is a great fit for them. She works with her clients to provide individualized sessions based on her client’s needs, interests, and goals they have for themselves. Hope looks forward to working with you to help find the path that is right for you!

About Ivie Carmouche

Ivie is originally from Louisiana, but relocated to Nashville in 2021 to pursue her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She holds a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Strategic Communications with a focus in Organizational Communication. Ivie spent a year in Lipscomb’s CMHC program before deciding to make a switch into their Organizational Leadership master's program where she has earned her certificate in performance coaching. She is also an academic coach at a university where she spends majority of her time working with incoming freshmen and coaching them through time management, picking a major, study habits, self-discipline, and motivation. In addition, she has worked with clients through overcoming limiting beliefs, personal and professional goal setting, career planning, work-life balance, social media content and influencing, and entrepreneurship.

As a trained and skilled performance coach, Ivie has become sure of one thing. “Change is not inevitable. It is intentional. It requires identifying roadblocks, creating strategy, and intentional execution.” While she firmly believes her clients hold the responsibility for their goals, she knows the power of being asked questions that require introspection, inspire action, and propel clients forward. In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her close friends, traveling, and watching movies.

About Jessica Watkins

Jessica Watkins has roots in the South, after moving out West for her parents’ careers. She grew up in Boise, Idaho and earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Boise State University. Jessica enjoyed working in an adolescent residential psychiatric facility throughout college and afterward, as a technician and later therapy intern. She returned to school the following year to earn her Master’s Degree in Social Work. During graduate school, she accepted an Assistantship that allowed her to train prospective foster parents in the State based curriculum. Jessica later fostered teenagers for a few years after being inspired by working with foster families.\

Jessica has worked in inpatient, outpatient, and with in-home services. She loves learning families’ and individuals’ strengths and helping meet others along their growth paths. She has lived in Bolivia, South America, where she volunteered with a non-profit organization supporting orphans. As a result of this experience, addressing trauma and systemic barriers to accessing support became a high priority of hers. She then returned to graduate school, this time at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to earn her Master’s Degree in Public Administration, focusing on systems improvement work.

Jessica trained in Cognitive Behavioral approaches in graduate school and has learned skills from Dialectical Behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment therapy. In working with others, Jessica believes that all interactions should come from a place of deep compassion for people’s past traumas and their narratives surrounding their histories. Jessica loves connecting with others and seeing them thrive, adapt, gain self-awareness, and find peace.
Jessica’s favorite pastimes are wandering on her family’s third generation tree farm, beating her family at card games, and spoiling her dog.

About Tasleem Pierce

Tasleem Pierce is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who moved to Tennessee in 2014. She holds a Master's degree from Austin Peay State University and provides her clients with various treatment options. Her methods include evidence-based practices like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, DBT Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and holistic and alternative therapies. Tasleem is committed to helping people discover their passions, unleash their potential and develop essential skills. She sees herself as your partner in the personal growth and well-being journey. When Tasleem has some free time, she loves to give back to her community by volunteering, indulging in holistic healing practices, getting lost in a good book, taking care of her garden, and unwinding with a warm cup of coffee.

About Dr. Tassel Shanebrook

I help individuals who may feel disconnected from their true selves, showing up as depression, anxiety, or a feeling of being unfulfilled. I help clients come back home to themselves, to their own dreams for their lives, to their own values, to their own feelings, and to their most aligned path for their relationships, careers, physical health, and joy. Clients usually experience very quick transformations with this work and express a feeling of internal wholeness and peace, as well as clarity about their way forward. 

I use a variety of methods to help clients remember and embody who they really are. These include more traditional models of therapy such as CBT, Solution-Focused therapy, and Narrative therapy, and more eclectic models such as hypnotherapy, energy methods, deep feeling practices, and inner child work. 

I am so honored to work with you. I invite you to reach out to me for a consult call and see how we can move forward on your precious life's journey and THRIVE! Many blessings, Dr. Tassel

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