My name is Adam Barfoot. I recently graduated with my Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I am also a coach at Whitebelt CrossFit in Chattanooga, TN and CrossFit Freeflow in Franklin, TN. I have been doing CrossFit since December 2015.
I started this blog to write about two of my passions – counseling and functional fitness.
This blog is for anyone who wants to improve themselves and help others. As a mental health therapist, I know that witnessing change in my clients is so, so powerful. Witnessing so much change in such an intimate environment makes me constantly reflect on my own life – Where am I growing? Where do I want to grow? Where am I struggling?
Being a mental health counselor and a coach at two different CrossFit gyms, I have insights from different angles into self-development and self-improvement that can help people.
Who should read this blog? Anyone who wants to grow, reflect, learn, and be challenged to grow, reflect, and learn.
Why should you read this blog? If you let it, it can help you grow. It can help you reflect. It can challenge you. It can teach you.
I will write primarily about counseling and self-development. I will also write about the common factors of counseling and functional fitness, such as courage, resilience, and fear. Self-development is a crucial aspect of functional fitness. We learn how to confront challenges rather than run from them. We embrace the pain of difficult workouts because we know that they can make us better. And in counseling, we learn that healing comes from facing our pain and working through it rather than running from it. We embrace the pain that comes along with healing because we know that finding healing will make us better people, and truly more functional people.
– Adam Barfoot, M.Ed.
Counseling and Functional Fitness 