Dr. Trace Pirtle

I'm Trace — Dr. Trace Pirtle if credentials matter to you, and I understand if they do.

Over the past 40 years, I've served as a counselor, counselor education professor, and, in recent years, a coach — sitting with people in the hardest places of their lives. Before that, I served as an Air Force officer, a missile launch officer responsible for ICBMs. I know something about stress and anxiety that many never will, but we each have our own experiences. I respect yours.

Along the way, I earned the Diplomate in Logotherapy — the highest post-doctoral credential in the field founded by Dr. Viktor Frankl, the man who discovered that meaning can be found even in the darkest of human suffering. I've taught it, researched it, published on it, and most importantly — lived it.

And along the way, I was a "seeker." I wasn't sure where God was, whether Jesus was real, or whether anything I was building actually meant something. My searching wasn't a detour. It was what God was uniquely qualifying me to do.

Today, my faith in Jesus Christ is not the footnote to my work — it's the foundation of it. I'm not interested in easy answers or canned programs. I'm interested in walking alongside the man who knows something is missing and is finally ready to find out what.

If that's you, maybe we should talk.