Marriage & Family Therapy
About Chad
A clinician, educator, and translator of complex relational work.
Chad Stiles, PhD, LMFT, brings together marriage and family therapy training, direct clinical practice, and more than 13 years supporting survivors of sexual trauma and domestic violence in advocacy settings.
Book Chad
Solution-focused, strength-based, and trauma-informed
Years supporting survivors in advocacy settings
How Chad works
Compassion needs direction.
Chad’s teaching turns that belief into concrete clinical questions, session structures, and relational interventions. The emphasis is not on presenting a model under ideal conditions. It is on helping clinicians find a useful next move when a session is messy, time is limited, insight is uneven, or a client is understandably ambivalent.
His clinical orientation is collaborative, strength-based, solution-focused, trauma-informed, and informed by parts work. The aim is to understand protective patterns without shaming, pathologizing, or forcing change before enough safety and readiness are present.
What participants can expect
Clear, structured, participatory, and clinically realistic.
Chad brings advanced marriage and family therapy training and a professional background in trauma-survivor advocacy to workshops, keynotes, conference sessions, webinars, and custom organizational training.
Each engagement is designed to leave people with language and structure they can use in their own setting, rather than a performance of certainty that disappears once the session ends.