Radiance Therapy

08/13/2025

Welcome to Radiance Therapy! I’m Michelle Harris, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist located right in the heart of Mt. Juliet, TN. You’ll find me working with women…from high schoolers preparing to enter the “real world”, women navigating young adulthood, to premarital counseling, perinatal and postpartum issues, marriage issues, peri-menopause struggles, boundaries and beyond! Whether you need support through big life transition, breaking free from codependency, support for your marriage, I am here to walk alongside of you. I look forward to supporting you in this season. Visit my website at radiancetherapytn.com

08/07/2025

✨Welcome to Radiance Therapy✨

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, wife, and mom to three kids, Michelle Harris knows how fulfilling and challenging marriage and family life can be. Michelle has a passion for strengthening individuals, marriages, and families. She believes that healthy individuals build healthy marriages, and healthy marriages build healthy families that contribute to a healthier community. It is a privilege to
walk alongside clients as they heal, repair, and build healthier relationships with themselves and others. Michelle received her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Olivet Nazarene University and went on to work with postpartum mothers and families for IU Health in Indiana for five years. Michelle then received her Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Indiana Wesleyan University. She has over ten years experience in the therapy field, and five years experience in social work.

Michelle specializes in perinatal and postpartum issues, women’s issues, couples therapy, and premarital counseling utilizing Prepare/Enrich. You will find Michelle helping clients through life transitions including premarital therapy utilizing Prepare/Enrich, adjustment to parenthood, and perinatal and postpartum issues. Michelle also works with
clients who are proactively working to strengthen their marriages and couples who are pursuing healing from infidelity and betrayal. You will also find her working with women ages 16 and up as they wrestle through different life seasons, challenges, and triumphs.

Michelle is a faith-forward therapist who believes that anchoring identity in faith keeps you secure despite life’s ups and downs. However, she meets clients where they are at and integrates their personal values and worldviews. Michelle takes a collaborative and holistic approach (mind, body, soul) to therapy.

To contact Radiance Therapy, email:
michelleharris@radiancetherapytn.com

07/28/2025

Please go to radiancetherapytn.com for more information.

45 W Caldwell St
Mt. Juliet, TN 37122

Phone: (615) 208-2246
Email: michelleharris@radiancetherapytn.com

Wednesdays
9:00 am to 11am (Telehealth)
12:00 pm to 7:00 pm (In Office)

Fridays (coming in August)
9:00 am to 3:00 pm

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Mt Juliet, TN. Boutique therapy tailored for you. Faith based relationship support. Encouragement for your every day.

10/19/2020

Identity Theft.

It’s even more common than you think.

As a therapist I have the privilege and the honor of being entrusted with people’s stories and struggles. After years of being in this field, I have found that most of people’s struggles can be traced back to the root of identity. Whether a client is coming in for anxiety or infidelity, or whatever it may be, at the root of the struggle is identity. Where we find our identity, determines so much. Our source of identity filters how we see the world.

If I place my identity and worth in my appearance, then my pregnant and postpartum body is going to take me on a rollercoaster of emotions and ever-changing value. If I place my identity in being the best at my job, I will sacrifice my personal health and relational health to be “the best”. If I place my identity and worth in relationships, I will too much pressure on my relationships until they implode. If I place my identity on my social status, I will run myself and my family into the ground trying to be at every social function. If I place my identity in my popularity, I’ll relationship hop and jeopardize relationships that could last a lifetime due to chasing the next “popular” crowd. If I place my identity in being loved, praised, and desirable, I run the risk of making decisions that could have a detrimental outcome for my marriage when it hits a rough patch. If I place my identity in materialistic items, I’ll end up in debt trying to keep up with the Joneses. And so on and so forth....

The issue of placing identity in appearance, the number on the scale, relationships, the income you bring in, your popularity, the car you drive and the house you live in, etc….is that these things are ever-changing. They never stay the same. They don’t last. They won’t fill that heart void. They will leave you empty. They will leave you constantly chasing more. They will fill your head and heart with chaotic thoughts. These things will never be enough and therefore you will never be enough.

But God. He IS enough. His word tells us that we are his sons and daughters (2 Cor. 6:18). When we place our identity in God and what He says is true about us our identity is secure. We are secure. We know that despite the changing circumstances one thing remains true. We are His. We are loved, cherished, protected, and nothing can separate us from His love. When our identity is secured, we can cease striving and straining. We can rest, truly rest, and we can be at peace. We can quit proving our worth to the world, and rest in His redeeming love.

Live loved. Because you are. Unconditionally.

05/29/2020

He’s a smooth talker.
He’s convincing.
He’s even charming.

At least initially.
It takes awhile to see that he is not who he says he is.
But he’s so convincing, compelling, conniving.

He tricks you into thinking that what is almost right is right. But what is almost right is not right. It's not in your best interest. He keeps you from living, really living. He keeps you small. He holds you back.

It’s a façade.
He wants to distract you, drag you down, drag you away from truth so slowly you can’t see what’s happening.
He comes to steal, kill and destroy.

He’s the devil in disguise.

But Jesus comes that you may have life and have it abundantly. To live abundantly, you must armor up. You must fight back. And you must refute the lies.

The lies that become your story that you tell yourself....
“I’m not enough”
“I’m too much”
“If only I had….”
“If only I was…”
“If this happened…then I’d be happy….”
“I’m too heavy”
“I’m too thin”
“I’m not strong enough”
“This is too hard”
“God isn’t really good”
“God has forgotten me”
“My worth is in my weight”
“My identity is in my marital or parental status”
“I can never change”
“_______________” You can fill in your own blank.

The enemy is a liar. Don’t go one more day without slowing down to think about how you are thinking. What are you believing? What story are you telling yourself?

The Bible tells us to take every thought captive.
Every thought.
Take it to Jesus. Let His refining love burn the lies to dust. Let Him re-purpose the dust into solid truth that will stand the test of time.

Here is a great truth to start with.

“Lord, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. Psalm 139 tells me I am your workmanship. Help me place my identity in You. And in the name of Jesus, I speak against the lies of the enemy. They have no place in my heart, mind and soul. Fill me up with Your truth.”

Here’s to denouncing the lies.

Here is to living in truth. Living abundantly. Living life to the fullest.

05/01/2020

I LOVE this visual SO much. These two “glasses” are my top priorities, hands down. Family and health....health in every way. Spiritual, emotional, mental, relational, financial. Sometimes you have to let some things bounce and has been a wonderful reminder to me that it’s okay. I’ve had some great quiet times during to re-assess, re-focus, and ramp up for things to come.👏🏼🙌🏼❤️ Is there anything you’ve let go during this time? And will you pick it up when life returned to “normal”? Or maybe you have picked something up now?

04/14/2020