Why Choose Team Room: War, Hope, and Growth?

There is a lot of information on posttraumatic stress and moral injury available today. Praise God! May the research, treatments, and ministries continue in these areas, especially for our combat veterans and their family members. But why choose Team Room: War, Hope, and Growth to speak on these topics for your organization?

Simple.

Our focus is equipping your organization to understand the changes our warfighters can experience after returning home from war and how those changes can impact the warfighter's family.

Besides being a Certified Trauma Professional (see credentials below), Dr. Davis is a combat veteran who has been diagnosed with service-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In addition to numerous deployments during his twenty-year military career, Richard has six combat rotations to Afghanistan and Iraq as a Special Forces Green Beret. War changed Richard and his family. Yet it took Richard seven years after his retirement to admit he needed help with flashbacks, dissociation, night sweats, and anger. 

Although he has undergone multiple counseling sessions, especially eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing, the residue of war remains and why he continues to focus on his relationship with Jesus Christ for true hope and the new story with Team Room for growth. 

While serving as the Military Pastor at First Baptist Clarksville, Tennessee, Richard's dissertation focused on developing integrated trauma-care ministries at a local church to care for military spouses (see The Team Room Story). During his doctoral work, Richard developed a four-hour self-directed doctoral seminar on Psychological Trauma and Discipleship to focus his project while also becoming a Certified Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications. He has maintained his certification since 2018 to stay abreast of new research, related topics, and treatments to encourage veterans and spouses in seeking help. 

While Richard is not a clinician, he is a Christian, a combat veteran, and also seeks counseling for his own struggles as he desires to understand the changes that occurred in himself and his family. Part of Richard's new story of hope and experiencing growth is help his own tribe (military community) and to share the good news of Jesus Christ. Thus the focus on educating others by sharing his story, applying biblical rationale, and sharing lessons learned as a certified trauma professional to encourage an integrated approach to trauma-informed ministries. 

His wife, Tina Davis travels with Richard to share her own story of living with a career soldier and Green Beret who was deployed frequently after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Tina speaks with spouses by sharing biblical principles, lessons learned, and hope as a military spouse who has walked the same journey.

This is Team Room: War, Hope, and Growth. 

Personal, Informed, Practical, and Christ focused!