Hunter Pritchett

I came to Clarity and Growth Center after a multi-decade career as a chef, entrepreneur, and creative. After becoming a father, I realized that my identity, priorities, and values had drastically shifted, and I decided to make a change and become a therapist. The transition was hard, disorienting, confusing, and incredibly challenging, especially with a new family. I know how much I valued my own therapist, friends, and family’s support through the process, and I am honored to bring and share my lived experience into the room and offer the same support for my clients. In January of 2025, I became an Eaton Fire survivor and intimately understand the grief, loss, and trauma of such a massive, sudden loss. I bring my own knowledge to help affected clients work through the overwhelming, confusing, and difficult feelings around recovery from the fire and working to rebuild their lives. As a parent of a young child, I have a particular interest in working with new dads, helping other new, expecting, or father figures navigate the often-socially suppressed emotional, relational, and psychological challenges that come with new parenthood, and how that affects expressions of feelings and overall mental health. I know that deconstructing the outdated or imposed norms or the “shoulds” of masculinity and parenting can encourage more authenticity, intimacy, and vulnerability in relationships and deepen emotional experiences for clients of all ages and life stages. Doing this work can be scary and at the core of my therapeutic work is a deep commitment to co-creating supportive connections with clients, and I strive to provide a safe, collaborative, and nonjudgmental space where individuals can fully express themselves, process their emotions, be held accountable, and explore personal growth. By modeling and integrating empathy, curiosity, humor, and attunement, I help clients of all ages and demographics feel truly seen and supported in therapy. I utilize a trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirming approach that combines a psychodynamic understanding of how our origins influence our present, a narrative approach to help clients create a new preferred story for their lives moving forward, and a robust toolkit of CBT and DBT skills and strategies for mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal regulation for a lifetime of well-being.